This was a very lucky shot. In a small village in Himachal Pradesh, I'd set up the camera and tripod to take a photo of the gleaming mountains, and suddenly this litle girl stands right in front of the lens and peers at me. What else could I do. Click. She had been sitting next to a wood fire cooking chapattis and dhal, the ash is in her hair. Her blanket is typical of this part of HP wound around in an intricate way and held with an giant pin, sometimes ornate.

i used the sharpening script luko gave me some time ago.. i use it on most of my shots to compensate for the low-pass filter induced by digital images ( further details on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/sharpening.mspx to understand what i am talking about).



basically, 1st USM at gain 20%, radius 40 pixel, threshld 0, then 2nd USM 150%, 0,3 and 0. you then go to edit / reduce effect / darken opacity 100%. 3rd USM using same 150%, 0,3 and 0. same edit/reduce/lighten mode using opacity 50%. that's it.. if you missed something i can re-explain. the exercise was made more difficult since i have a french version in front of me and tryuing to give you the equivalent functions in english;-))



hope you like the ws



Eric