It looked good on my screen. Is your monitor calibrated? With an image that
has a broad range of tones from bright white to very dark tones, monitor
calibration is very important...if it is off just a little an image like
Jim's won't look good. Consider also that come Mac users still use the gamma
1.8 standard instead of the 2.2 standard that is now preferred. Images on
the web often look too dark on a 1.8 gamma screen.
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On 5/8/09 7:55 AM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No accounting for different tastes I guess. Chris Crawford had a much
> different reaction than I did and likes it just as it is.
> ----------------------
> That's a pretty pic, Jim. I like the lighting, the contrast was manged
> REALLY well. The flowers are beautiful too
> ------------------------
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Very dark and contrasty. It benefits greatly by increasing the
>> mid-range brightness which also reduces the contrast. I note that the
>> upper end of the histogram seems to have a fair amount of holes. Maybe
>> overprocessed as a JPEG? In any case brightening the mid-range is, I
>> think, all that's required.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> With my recent flower photos, I have made an effort to show the
>>> beauty that can be found in common blooms. In looking for an image
>>> for this Friday, I was attracted to the shadows formed by the
>>> side-lighting on this Rhododrendron cluster. I decided to use the
>>> unusual view this Friday, just to illustrate another way of viewing
>>> the flowers.
>>>
>>> In some lens experimentation, I was using the closest example I have
>>> to a "35mm standard" lens to use on the E-510, in this case a Takumar
>>> 1.8/55mm, which becomes the equivalent of a 110mm lens in terms of a
>>> full-frame 35mm system. The longer focal length is much easier to
>>> focus than the Elmarit-R 2.8/28 that I have been using lately, but
>>> the lens is not as sharp as the Leica lens.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Shadows+14.tif.html
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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