On my recently calibrated monitor I see foreground trees silhouetted against darker hills. Anything like this is going to be a compromise in terms of dynamic range. You made the right choices here. Paul On Oct 17, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
> I wonder if your contrast is too high on your monitor. There is > detail there to be seen. It is subtle, however. There are some dark > shapes in foreground that give way to a slightly lighter shade and I > can count two low hill peaks on the right prior to the top of the > last hill. > > I'll have to go look on some other monitors to see how it looks. > Thanks for the comments. > > -- > Bruce > > > Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 3:02:48 PM, you wrote: > > JD> Rarely am I thoroughly comfortable with a scene which includes > large, > JD> dark featureless areas. I always envision that I could have > made out > JD> some detail, however subtle. > JD> Just me.(?) > > JD> Jack > > JD> --- Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Taken this past Saturday in Pt Reyes near San Francisco. We >>> actually >>> went to see some of the wildlife and at the end of the day on the >>> way >>> back, we were confronted with the scene. I have rendered it just as >>> we saw it. It was a fairly low key, peaceful scene rather than an >>> overly punchy scene. >>> >>> Pentax K10D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 70mm, Tripod mounted >>> ISO 200, 4 sec @ f/5.6, manual everything >>> >>> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/ptreyes_0137a.htm >>> >>> In light of the discussions, I guess some may like this and say so, >>> some may critique, some may nothing and possibly no one will >>> comment. >>> But that is ok, I'll deal with whatever comes. >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Bruce >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and follow the directions. >>> > > > JD> __________________________________________________ > JD> Do You Yahoo!? > JD> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > JD> http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
