Hey George,

Yes. It certainly does. :P Thanks guys for the work on this. I have just sent out the photo to the 4 of you through 'Send This File.' Let me know if you don't get it.

Thanks
James

Hey Guys,

Just curious to see if anyone was able to re-process my raw image with satisfaction.

James

James,

I wanted to play with your file, but when I tried to download it I selected to "run" it rather than "save" it, and therefore lost it (or at least cannot find it). I then tried to re-download it, but it had exceeded the number of downloads. If you do not mind re-sending it, I can try again.

Sorry
Dave

I haven't used this service before, it went into my Spam folder and now the file is expired. Please resend. Sorry.

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for the info. I will make a second stab this evening at sending the file.

James

Hey Guys,

The file is off. Please let me know if you do not receive the link.

James

Ok - I gave this a shot. I had to convert the file to DNG format so CS3 could read it.

I brought in two different exposures settings from ACR and blended them in PS.... Now that I am looking at it from the internet, I am not sure I like the top of the mountain in this shot. This was a pretty quick adjustment, but this is what I have.







I have been playing with a demo version of Photomatrix, so thought I would try that with your file. I saved three different exposure setting in ACR, and imported those three files into Photomatrix, then played with it a little in both Photomatrix and PS. I thought it would be interesting to see the difference. I think I like what Photomatrix did to the trees better than the other version.





You can see it has the photomatrix watermark because I do not think I will purchase the software; I am only using the demo.

Hope this is helpful - thanks for letting me play with it.

Dave

Hi David,

I think you did a great job with the trees - they look richer and more saturated. I wish that more could be done with the area of sky between the edge of the rock face and the mountain.

James

Yes - I see there is some banding in the sky in my version. I am not sure why - but somewhere in my process I think I added that. I played with it a little bit below again; while it is a little better, I did not eliminate it and now have some ghosting. Sorry I think that is beyond my current PP abilities.

Maybe someone else???

i would be interested in taking a stab at this challenge. pls send me the RAW file - i did what i could with the little 1.66 x 2.5 file. i'm sure this could be improved with more data.

in the meantime, here is my edit.

jp