Hi Rick the original shots do indeed look quite dark in the shadows but overall I prefer them over your adjustments. The originals show the colours more pleasing and very saturated while your versions look a bit washed out here on my Nanoa/Eizo CRT monitors. Maybe you should adjust curves/brightness only for certain regions of the image or use the shadow/highlight tool of Photoshop?
I know that they will look even darker on most of the LCD screens I have seen, maybe that's one of the reasons. I often wonder how people can enjoy photographs on a notebook screen or medium priced LCD, they look so incredible dark and mostly have a bluish cast too **if** you know the original. others will know the answer to your real question ;-) greetings from a film user Markus >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Womer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:44 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: ist D exposure question >> >> >>Today I was finally able to do some shooting with my >>new-to-me ist D. I used the highest-quality jpeg >>setting (raw will have to wait a bit). >> >>Most of the pix were nicely exposed, but some of them >>were badly underexposed, even though the scenes didn't >>seem especially challenging and no exposure >>compensation was set. >> >>Two examples are here, along with copies whose levels >>I adjusted in PE2 to show that the information is >>really there: >> >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=583164 >> >>(ist D, DA16-45, iso 200, multipattern metering, f/11 >>@ 1/180) >> >>Can anyone tell me what's happening? Is this typical? >> >>Otherwise, the camera handles nicely, and I can use it >>with my glasses on (a very nice thing indeed). TTL >>flash exposures hoover, as others have noted. There's >>dust on the sensor, but our cats make the house so >>dusty that I don't want to try to clean it here. >> >>Rick >> >> >> >>http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >>
