Thx Simon very helpful info :) Thx misha I will check out the link :) I attached an image where I have stepped down the exposure 1.33 I set the aperture to f8 and camera set shutter to 1/1600. I know it is a small image I am posting here (original is 3072x2304) but I think it is getting there with the exposure - any comments ? I have seen it explained in a magazine about taking 2 shots definitely something to play around with for me even if just for the experience. I tried stepping down the exposure for some and that had some sucess though I only went to 1.33 stops down, not 2. Maybe I should have tried more shots different exposures. But I can always try again at the same place, bet the light will be totally different then and present me with some other problem. In my PSP tutorials there is one for adjustment layers and masks which I have looked at but not really studied yet. So again something to experiment with. Richard

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html