Thanks Bruce, PJ, Paul, Markus Shel and Brian for being honest. When I look at it objectively, I agree that it is mostly an uninteresting picture. Maybe next time I will try the 'Auto Compose' function on my DL.
I have been told several times, that my pictures are too dark. To be clear, we are talking a few stops dark, but not black or anything like that, right? I think there are two issues here (if anyone cares to comment further): 1) Foremost, I think I have a tendency to underexpose, specifically on shots like this. I really like detail in the clouds and am afraid of losing it even when the clouds are not the most important aspect of the picture. IIRC the histogram for this shot had the highlights touching the first bar from the right (which is a half-stop right?) but I think that what you are seeing on your screen is probably darker than just a half-stop. 2) I usually work in a dark room because I hate glare off the screen. I have been running my mac on gamma 1.8 instead of 2.2, but from what I am hearing I think that is a negligible part of my problem. Russ (here to learn) On 4/1/07, Russell Kerstetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a reservoir/lake near my mother-in-law's house. Also this is > the first photo I have processed with iPhoto. I was using Lightroom > beta, iPhoto definately has less features and some irritating > limitations, but it does have the 'touch-up' tool, which is pretty > handy. > > http://www.avocadohead.com/piclinks/IMGP2882.html > > Honest comments please, thanks for looking. > > Russ > > -- > Legacy Air, Inc. > 11900 Airport Way > Broomfield Colorado 80021 > (303) 404-0277 > fax (303) 404-0280 > www.legacy-air.com > -- Legacy Air, Inc. 11900 Airport Way Broomfield Colorado 80021 (303) 404-0277 fax (303) 404-0280 www.legacy-air.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
