Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan, my (Dell) monitor is aging but has a viewing hood and is calibrated with EyeOne. It works well to soft proof prints. I looked at your chalk art gallery and the darks have no detail remaining for me. For example the sweater of the little girl in reflection 1 . Similar with dark tree trunks in your fall gallery (hey I didn't know you knew how to load colour film into your cameras!) Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 22 January 2011 04:48, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > > > We need a much more subdued viewing screen for our tweaking of > photographs. It > >keeps happening here - if you tell someone that his online postings look > >flat, back comes the reply that it looks fine on his screen. Of course it > >will, but on a dimmer, calibrated screen they look awful - and none of > them > >print anyway, so never are going to accept the truth! > > ====================================================================================================== > This seems a good time to ask how the tones of the pictures on my gallery > look to others, in general. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> > > I usually make them a bit darker and contrastier before uploading, to get > them to look good when I view the gallery on my screen. > > Am I fooling myself that they are decent? > > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >