I've wondered myself about the differences in the way things look on other
folks' monitors. How many see the faint gradations of orange within the dark
grey clouds in my TOPE 22? Just curious.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Brian
>
> I can see the detail in the shadow area that Fernando has lightened
> with his flash. Your photos have vertical striations in the blue and
> the colour could not really be described as rich.
>
> I think that it would help you to calibrate your monitor. In case it
> helps, mine is set to Gamma 1.8 with D50 as the colour temperature
> (5000 deg K).
>
> Whatever you end up setting, you should perhaps consider giving
> yourself a choice of temperatures, but sticking to one Gamma value.
> If you use a festering Windoze machine (;-)) you will probably be set
> to Gamma 2.2 already, so you need only choose your colour temperature
> settings. But use a calibrator like the Adobe one ...
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
>
>
> On 30 Jun 2005, at 12:26, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> > For the two TOPE images of the last exhibition, who can see detail
> > in the
> > branch shadow area of Fernando's image - and who can not? Who sees
> > the
> > sky in my image as a gradation of dark, rich blue, with rich
> > oranges and reds
> > in the last rays coming from the sun - and who sees instead, pale blue
> > instead of dark blue, and yellow instead of orange and red?.
> >
> >
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