Adrian... there are some great photo's in that group... thanks for posting!
with warm regards,
Tony
http://artonio7.com
"Adrian" <kaispowertools@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:67b91809.0307250624.a45121e@posting.google.co m...
> Recently, I decided to attempt a scan of negative taken inside the
> visitor's center of Teotihuacan (outside Mexico City) with its view of
> the "Pyramid of the Sun." Unfortunately, the brightness to darkness
> ratio would either allow detail of the pyramid, but the model of the
> city in the foreground would be lost to darkness. And the inverse was
> true, if I opened up for detail in the shadows, the pyramid through
> the windows would be totally blown out.
>
> What I decided to do was to make 2 separate scans, one for the detail
> in the pyramid and a separate one for the detail in the city model. I
> then opened both in Photoshop, with the background detail as the
> bottom layer, and copy/pasted the shadow detail scanned image over the
> bottom layer and just erased blown-out parts of image to reveal the
> detail of the pyramid. Finished example at this link:
>
> http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/mexi...acan_view.html
>
> Adrian
>
> "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Nerds"
>
> http://www.amenfoto.com/