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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 169992" data-attributes="member: 9240">Kodiak, I absolutely understand what you're saying, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out precisely what I wanted to show in these photos, which ultimately became the intricacy of a newly emerged creature.&nbsp; Let's use the bottom photo as the example for discussion purposes since this is probably the most dramatic transition.&nbsp; Stopped down even -1/3 I begin to lose the pattern in the fabric of the wing in the black areas, and I particularly lose the feathery texture in the thorax area, which is just beginning to dry out.&nbsp; I still get enough that I could be happy with it, but ultimately this is where I wanted them.&nbsp; My edits were done in Photoshop, including some tweaking with Nik Viveza 2, producing a PSD file.&nbsp; I took that edit and played with the Lightroom sliders for EV and that saw that I lost the detail rather quickly.&nbsp; Instead, I decided to try to boost the blacks, which worked a little better, but by the time they were &quot;black enough&quot; I was still losing details I wanted in shadows, so I bumped the shadow slider.&nbsp; Here's the same image with -60 on the Blacks slider and +10 on the Shadows.&nbsp; Probably a little more the look you'd prefer.[ATTACH=full]43421[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 169992, member: 9240"] Kodiak, I absolutely understand what you're saying, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out precisely what I wanted to show in these photos, which ultimately became the intricacy of a newly emerged creature. Let's use the bottom photo as the example for discussion purposes since this is probably the most dramatic transition. Stopped down even -1/3 I begin to lose the pattern in the fabric of the wing in the black areas, and I particularly lose the feathery texture in the thorax area, which is just beginning to dry out. I still get enough that I could be happy with it, but ultimately this is where I wanted them. My edits were done in Photoshop, including some tweaking with Nik Viveza 2, producing a PSD file. I took that edit and played with the Lightroom sliders for EV and that saw that I lost the detail rather quickly. Instead, I decided to try to boost the blacks, which worked a little better, but by the time they were "black enough" I was still losing details I wanted in shadows, so I bumped the shadow slider. Here's the same image with -60 on the Blacks slider and +10 on the Shadows. Probably a little more the look you'd prefer. [ATTACH type="full"]43421._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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