Making 2 separate scans to preserve details in shadow and highlight

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/

"artonio7/Tony/Anthony/" <artonio7(remove)@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:<bfrq8r$i1h34$1@ID-167660.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Adrian... there are some great photo's in that group... thanks for posting!
>
> with warm regards,
> Tony
> http://artonio7.com
>
Thanks, Tony. You've got some excellent work yourself. I particularly
enjoyed the pastels, not everyone realizes that you're working with
pure pigment in creating your artwork.

best to you,
Adrian