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I have offered a mod. for you, Krystal, and I hope it goes some way in meeting with your approval. A lovely bouquet which you have attempted to capture under very extreme lighting, and which I think you have captured rather nicely given that strong unidirectional light.
Ronnie.
Ronnie.
Absolutely definitely a HUGE improvement 
Thanks Ronnie, beautiful work, I love your Modificaiton.
Krystal
Thanks Ronnie, beautiful work, I love your Modificaiton.
Krystal
Came back to see what your response was, Krystal. I meant to mention above that when you tackle a subject like this with very strong sunshine backlighting the subject, there is usually a compromise to be accepted between how you might visualise the result and what can actually be achieved. Anyway, glad you find the mod. acceptable.
Ronnie.
Ronnie.
Hi Krystal
Ronnie has successfully brought out detail in the dark mid-tones because there was detail there in the original. However, the darkest shadows and blown-out highlights haven't been affected because black is black and white is white, with no detail in either.
The histogram is a good guide of this and well worth getting to understand (there's bound to be a tutorial about it on here somewhere). A peak at the very left of the graph signifies black shadow, and a peak touching the right side signifies blown out highlights. For this reason it's good practice to use the histogram as you're shooting, to check that there are no areas with irretrievable lost detail
Stephen
Ronnie has successfully brought out detail in the dark mid-tones because there was detail there in the original. However, the darkest shadows and blown-out highlights haven't been affected because black is black and white is white, with no detail in either.
The histogram is a good guide of this and well worth getting to understand (there's bound to be a tutorial about it on here somewhere). A peak at the very left of the graph signifies black shadow, and a peak touching the right side signifies blown out highlights. For this reason it's good practice to use the histogram as you're shooting, to check that there are no areas with irretrievable lost detail
Stephen
Ok, so here is another Mod for you Krystal. Ronnie did a good job with first Mod.
Hope you like it
Jamm
Hope you like it
Jamm
Krystal, this image is not fixable in the sense that the completely overexposed portions can never be recovered as they contain no data from the camera. The mod uses a highlight recovery method that can deal only with a small range of highlights that still contain data, - and it dies look better, bit there a lot of blown areas still present.
The fact that you shot nto the light, and got decent detail on the roses is in itself an achievement, - but snce youve not loaded any shot details at all I can comment of if you used a fill flash, exposure compensation etc, - perhaps you dont still have the exif data.
Looks like you were after the nice light through the vase, along with the flowers, and in retrospect you may have achieved a better result if you had moved so that you were not shooting directly into the light, - moved to one side, shot from higher pov, etc, - any position to get your shot and eliminate the blown highlights.
Loaded a mod with highlights and shadows recovered as much as the original quality would allow, and cloned in the couch top left which tends to draw the eye away from the table. The highlight and shadow work is done using a dedicated tool in CS4 for this purpose.
Hope this is helpful
Regards
Willie
The fact that you shot nto the light, and got decent detail on the roses is in itself an achievement, - but snce youve not loaded any shot details at all I can comment of if you used a fill flash, exposure compensation etc, - perhaps you dont still have the exif data.
Looks like you were after the nice light through the vase, along with the flowers, and in retrospect you may have achieved a better result if you had moved so that you were not shooting directly into the light, - moved to one side, shot from higher pov, etc, - any position to get your shot and eliminate the blown highlights.
Loaded a mod with highlights and shadows recovered as much as the original quality would allow, and cloned in the couch top left which tends to draw the eye away from the table. The highlight and shadow work is done using a dedicated tool in CS4 for this purpose.
Hope this is helpful
Regards
Willie
Very nice artistic save Willie 
great idea to fill the light top left corner with a paintbrush
Actually this was a quick snapshot in 2008. You guessed right. I wanted a picture of my beautiful red roses - I liked the clear transparency of the glass. I was not at all concerned about background detail whtsoever at that time.
Just a quick snapshot not to forget.
THANKS for the super job fixing the image it looks excellent.
I still love my red roses and will always remember why I got them
Krystal
great idea to fill the light top left corner with a paintbrush Actually this was a quick snapshot in 2008. You guessed right. I wanted a picture of my beautiful red roses - I liked the clear transparency of the glass. I was not at all concerned about background detail whtsoever at that time.
Just a quick snapshot not to forget.
THANKS for the super job fixing the image it looks excellent.
I still love my red roses and will always remember why I got them
Krystal
Beautifully captured.......Martin
Hi Krystal - the comp of your image is lovely but the image is very hard on the eyes - the mods are great with Wilie's being the most successful - that cloning of the colour on the left hand top makes such a difference and softens the whole image. Beautiful roses and I can see why you wanted a special memory of them.
sue
sue
Excellent shot. The light penetrates through the bowl is delicious.
Regards, Oleg.
Regards, Oleg.
