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I think I've now finished with all of my vacation pictures. Definitely need another vacation. Thank you all for your nice comments! A while ago I had some interesting results with scanning some feathers. So, I sent off to this link for some WHITE peacock feathers. They are very pretty and extremely fine and delecate, (need high resoloution scans!). And, very white. Does anyone know of any scanning tricks to show these off? Here I've used a light gray background. Scanned at 300ppi, and a lot of playing with contrast, brightness, curves, sharpen...

and the problem with this image would be? I like it.... Jack

I remember the peacock feather serial of yours very clearly: they were strikingly beautiful..! This one here also is a beautiful one, yet the "in-picture framing" looks quite bright and dominant over the delicate feathers, IMHO...

Good point about the framing, doruksal. Nothing really "wrong" with this; just I want to show as much detail as possible. Scanning against a black background flares out any detail in the white. Light gray worked better, but still lost something and needed a lot of tweaking in photoshop. Must be a better way to set the white and black points? Though the feathers are white, there are very slight variations in the white that I'd like to catch. Glad you like it, BTW.

I like this personally.

This is beautiful Misha. Like randy, I really like this. Re: Alpha's suggestion, I once made a "light box" from perspex covered with tracing paper to diffuse the flourescent tube light I had to illuminate it...do you think something like that might work? :-)>