September 16, 2009 7:41pm Digital pushed the contrast up, I pulled some of it out in photoshop to make the ashes look more like they actually look, which is quite flat really. They're a subtle combination of white and grey with a little black here and there. The only way to keep the look of the softness of the ashes was to bring the contrast down so it didn't end up looking like sand. It's all so terribly subjective, isn't it.
