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Old 03-16-2005, 10:25 PM   #4
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Nice photo manipulation example, Garth H.

I'm also struggling right now with photo reference that is SO contrasty that there's no room for any color in the lights or the darks. (The lights look pasty and the darks look cold and dead.) I'm reducing the contrast and cranking up the saturation of the reference photo a lot to get something that looks even sort of like living color to paint from.

I'm learning (the hard way) that strong lighting situations produce virtually unuseable reference, and that cameras do a much better job capturing accurate values and color in the gentle mid ranges of light.
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