The Ends

These two refused to turn around and pose for me. After standing this

way like statues for five minutes I decided to work with it. They are

under a heavy tree canopy with a lot of contrast between their shade

and the bright background. To pull the details out of the shadows I

had to perform extensive post processing. How did I do? Thanks!

How you did it Craig: With very skillful use of HDR (I don't know if CS4 has a HDR) or simply with the also skillful use of the shadows/highlights tool! Am I right?

PDE

The file information shows 'PS CS4' because that is what I used to scale down this image for upload to Photo.net.  I prefer to do most of my post processing work with Nikon Capture NX2.  I use the 'shadow protection' and 'highlight protection' features while boosting brightness and contrast of the subjects, (the goats).  This is one of my rare examples where I actually begin to think about post processing before I take the shot.  Almost like I know what I am doing, huh!

I drool over the easy HDR features of CS5.  I do not plan to upgrade until CS6 comes out...

Thanks Pierre

So, I was right! Only the software I didn't guess right, it is obviously a tool which serves for the same purpose! You did it perfectly well because if you didn't say in your critique request I wouldn't have noticed any intervention!

Thank you Craig!

PDE