Re: Advice - pics of ice carvings

Celcius wrote:
> "Paul Furman" <paul-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:S7%rj.3$pl4.2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Celcius wrote:
>>> Hi everyone!
>>>
>>> I took some photos of ice carvings on Saturday:
>>> http://picasaweb.google.fr/cosmar38/IceCarvings
>>>
>>> These were under some sort of canopy - no way to alter lighting 
>>> conditions. Any suggestion to get better results are welcome.
>>>
>>> By the way, I shot in RAW and altered the WB after the fact.
Originally, 
>>> I had shot "Shade" and altered to "Sunlight". It was yellowish
before...
>> If you can get back further & zoom in so the blue background is working
as 
>> a backdrop that would be nice. Some photoshopping would be helpful too,

>> including a graduated neutral density filter effect to bring out detail
in 
>> the bottom.
> 
> Thanks Paul.
> Could you help me further, please?
> "Neutral density filter" - I went to "layers", "photo filter", then I 
> clicked on color... I chose "grey" and played with the density. Is this
what 
> you had in mind?

I tinkered quickly & did this: Made a levels adjustment layer that 
darkened the bottom half (and put a curves adjustment above that to 
bring the contrast up) then used a large soft edged eraser to erase the 
top part of the darkening layer so it's more even.