Adrian writes:
> 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
Nice work.
It's tedious to combine scans in that way, though. Ideally, you should
use a scanner that can get it all on one pass. You don't have problems
with pixel misalignments then, either.
Even more ideally, if you are on a tripod, you shoot two or more
exposures at the original scene, so that you have ideal exposures for
all the important areas. I've only very rarely done this, and it is
very tedious to combine in Photoshop, but the contrasts involved were so
great (about 15 stops, as I recall), that I had no choice.
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