This is the picture I submitted to the opposites contest:
In response to the comments I received, I reprocessed the original, as follows:
As you can see, I was able to get detail from the original in the shadows and in the highlights that were not in my submittal to the challenge. I did this by blending layers containing an "underexposure," a "normal exposure," and an "overexposure" using Canon's file viewer utility to extract three different TIFF16 files from the same raw, at calculated exposures of -2, 0, and +2. Blending layers is against contest rules, so I could not get the details present without using software that does 16 bit processing better than Canon's file viewer utility.
I have since found such software for $49 for the Rebel. It is the PhaseOne C1Rebel 1.3.1. It allows you to do curves on the full 16 bit raw image. So I am ready for the next challenge, and I do not have to go out and buy Photoshop CS to get the capability I need to extract the data from the original picture.
Message edited by author 2004-05-20 02:16:02.
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