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Subject: [OM] Re: Computer monitor settings for image viewing
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:33:05 -0400
Plenty of subtle oranges.

Chuck Norcutt

Walt Wayman wrote:

> 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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