Re: How would you take this shot?

Paul Furman <paul-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> It would help to see what you are getting (before trying to photoshop).

I'll see if I can put them up somewhere.  maybe in Flickr?  They are not
anything I would want to show off normally... :-(

>   Those shots look backlit as if they were set on a wrap-around light
> table. I took some shots of glass electric pole insulators stacked in a
> windowsill the other day and they came out beautiful... I'll just credit
> luck on that but apparently back-lighting works.
> http://edgehill.net/Misc/misc-photos/3-22-08-insulators

Those do look quite nice.  It is the glass that is giving me trouble
though, and the separation from the background.

It is the transparent nature of the material, and the fact that you can
see the background through it, that makes it hard to separate from the
background.  

I see your edit looks much nicer than the orig.  Was that more than just
color balance fixed and tonal adjustments?

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