Redemption at Altos De Chavon

Any suggestions are most welcome, Thankyou....Gail

Excellent colors and contrast. Well composed. Was this shot JPEG or RAW? I would try and go through to see if you can recover some of the sky. If you had the original in RAW, it would be a lot easier. I did an example of what I'm thinking just to give you an idea. Hope you don't mind too much. The retouch is sketchy at best, but it gives an idea of what the photo might look like without the sky blown. Shooting scenes like this is difficult, because to get good exposure on the foreground, the sky often gets overexposed. Next time you run into something like this, try taking mulitple shots with both the sky and foreground in good exposure and try blending them together. Or just one good RAW file is excellent to work with. Well done.

I don't mind at all Lacey; need all the help I can get. Those shots were taken on a Cruise with my parents. I'd never used a Digital SLR before. Dad had an Olympus, set it up, handed it to me and just said "JUST TAKE PICTURES !" He knew I was nervous. Didn't know what any of the settings meant. Was very overcast in this Photo. None of the Photos were set to RAW...just 72 dpi. I saved many on some CD's as BMP's at first. Because I did not know exactly what I was doing, some turned out Great...and many I've found i've got 'lost pixels'??does that make sense? The 'tower' where the cross is...a lot of the stonework just seemed to be areas of 'empty pixels. I will go back and try to see what I can come up with. Thankyou for your interest. Until this past summer I've only used the 2 Fuji's...basically point and shoot...just looked like an SLR....talk soon, tnks, Gail