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Re: [OM] Images: Do these look right to you?

Subject: Re: [OM] Images: Do these look right to you?
From: Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:27:38 -0500
They look good to me, not too bright or too dark as one sees with improperly
calibrated screens, so I think you're fine. Remember that other screens in
the house are usually way too bright from the factory and that makes the
colors duller.


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On 1/6/10 10:49 PM, "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have thrown together a little gallery of photos from last fall,
> mainly of seasonal colors.  I hope there is some reward in having a
> look, because I need a little reality check.
> 
> These photos were all shot with E-410 and one or the other of the two
> kit lenses.  The raw files were processed in Studio 2, almost all with
> these settings
> 
> Picture = Natural
> Saturation = 0
> Contrast = -1
> Sharpness = 0
> WB = 5300
> 
> In Photoshop, sometimes but not always I have applied LCE and two
> light passes of sharpening (.3 and .5 radii).  Usually attention has
> been paid to Levels, more rarely a curve adjustment or
> Highlight/Shadow (mainly to bring up shadows as the exposures were
> shot for highlights).  Resize and convert profile to sRGB in PS, save
> for the web.  Images are 800 pixels on the long side.
> 
> With my new Samsung 2350 monitor the images look fully saturated but
> not over-saturated.  On the other monitors in my house, the color in
> the images looks much thinner -- not terrible but not as exciting as
> the Samsung.
> 
> The Samsung has been calibrated using a spectrometer and Colorvision
> software.  It gets through this test quite well:
> 
> http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
> 
> I'd like to say I have arrived at my new standard, but some
> corroboration would be really helpful and much appreciated.  Here's
> the gallery:
> 
> http://jfwilcox.jalbum.net/Fall2009/index.html
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Joel W.


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