Need help with a pic from BW '03

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Looking for some help from anyone at that show. There was a skeleton key with a kind of shiny speckled (sp?) blue/white finish looked like tinted concrete or denim I suppose. I've got one pic Seth took, but the color is distorted beyond what I can fix. Did anyone else grab a good pic of that knife? If so can you email it to me? Thanks
 
this isnt actually what your asking for, but they might have some different editing techniques that might help. its not so much that the color is off (though it is really far over on the yellow spectrum... i shoulda been using a flash), its more that allthe shots were hand held at slow shutter speeds, and at high iso's. the end result is a blotchy color that has lots of red and blue noise, with slight blur on almost all the photo's. the end result is something that doesnt show color accuracy, or slight detail well.



soft focus via photo shop with yellow reduction, contrast fix, and slight desaturation

http://mysite.verizon.net/res1udb2/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/dscn0214.jpg

unsharp mask, contrast fix, yellow reduction, slight desaturation

http://mysite.verizon.net/res1udb2/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/dscn0214_3.jpg

another angle

http://mysite.verizon.net/res1udb2/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/dscn0213.jpg



and for any of you who are wondering, my soft focus technique is this =
first copy the image into 3 different layers

layer 3 = use "more blur" filter 5 times, or until most detail is lost. use the "unsharp mask" filter set @ 19. set layer opacity to 33%
layer 2 = gausian blur @ 92. set saturation to high, until colors begin to blow out. set layer opacity to 77%
layer 1 (backround) = fully desaturate (black and white). set contrast to high (until almost all detail is lost)
 
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