----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Earnest" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:28 Subject: Re: Calling all photo MacGyvers : I will mention it to her. : : My original thought was that the image of the knive could be suffering from : lens flare from something such a sodium vapor light source. Something with a : pure colour. Perhaps in a scan of the image that layer of color could be : removed to show the initials clearly. Might it work that way? Hiya :) think about those night shots - all light tends to saturate the film/sensor to a point where they flare out to white.. no chance of getting any detail by stripping back a colour when it's swamped the sensor or film karl
