@sitiodown - I cheated. This is a composite of two shots, one of the bulb lit on my Christmas tree and another of a spare bulb. Extracted the lighted part from shot one and the base from shot two. Overlaid them on a black background layer in Photoshop Elements.Among the lessons learned - 1) my quick extraction techniques need work - the edges are clearly fake. 2) Need to work on feathering edged when combining layers. 3) Sometimes it's better to do to real thing - it took me longer to manipulate the shot than it would have taken to go to the garage to get a soldering iron, attach a couple of leads and just light it up with the wires hidden...
