Re: How would you take this shot?

Burt Johnson wrote:
> 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 think for those examples the images were pretty much as you see, just 
a little cleanup.

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

Boosting contrast: shadows, brightness & saturation increased from raw. 
Lots of times I'll decrease contrast, just for reference...