"Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote in message
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Bob Williams wrote:
Impressive shot.

Thanks Bill.

I like your technique of allowing the foreground to fade into a darker
and darker background. Did you do this by creative lighting or via
Photoshop?

A little bit of each of the above.
I waited till the background was shaded, used a fairly wide open lens
(f5.6) to get a reasonably shallow depth of field. Then in Paint Shop Pro,
I used the curves adjustment to further darken the background, plus a
little gamma adjustment.

I don't understand what 'gamma adjustment' is, it's on my prog but I've
never used it.

Mary