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Subject: [Leica] Forest Fire Photo Help Request...
From: telyt at telus.net (David Young)
Date: Wed Jul 5 09:58:58 2006

All:

There is a forest fire burning near our town... presently about 20km 
away (near Lac le Jeune), and thankfully, currently growing away from the 
town.

It started late Monday afternoon and we spotted it shortly after it 
got going, while having a picnic with assorted nieces, grandnieces, 
grand nephews and grand children -  out at Leighton Lake.

The smoke billowed up and where it drifted in front of the white 
clouds it turned a brilliant red, easy to see from miles away.

This red showed in the viewfinder, but when the digital images were 
'developed', the red was almost impossible to see.  I have managed to 
bring some of it out, by increasing saturation and playing with the 
contrast, etc.... but now the trees look fake, and the redness in the 
clouds is still nowhere near what we saw.

http://www3.telus.net/telyt/FF_1.htm

You can see the black smoke rising on the right, but the reddish bit 
about 1/3 in from the right at tree top level is all that I could get to 
show.

BTW: The red trees are not a mistake.  We have a huge problem with 
pine beetles killing the trees (locally simply called "bugwood"), 
which exacerbates the fire situation, tremendously. However, 
increasing saturation, trying to get the clouds to show has made them 
redder than in real life.

What am I doing wrong?  How do I get this red in the clouds to show 
as it does in real life?

Any and all help appreciated.

Cheers!

---

David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
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