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The beauty salon shot beats "Legally Blond" for humor!  This is a great shot.

Ok, for those with the know how and the software, please take a shot at the barn/silo original image and post it with a clue as to what you did.   Give it a try, please!

The file is about 386kb, much smaller than orig but larger than allowed on the forum, in my file locker here. So, download and give it a try.  I will leave the file available for about 3 days then delete.

I for one do not like the color problems with the tonemapping...I have a trial version of  Photomatrix and converted the jpg to 16bit tiff to get it to work.  The results were ok but darker than desired.  There was not a problem with color on the barn..it stayed white while the sky stayed a grayer shade of gray and grass went a slight bit greener. Sky was gray overcast when the shot was taken, very little blue to the eye. (In my attempt with the software,  I wanted to keep original color in tack and did not do it well.  I am not familiar enough with the software to use it correctly.)

So, if you want to try your method with the original image, go ahead. It should be just big enough to work with and post as smaller file.         Tom