Thanks Christine (and others who have commented.) It is probably going to be a couple of weeks before I can comment on how well the book comes out. I'll be out of town most of the coming week, even if it comes by the time I get back home, I'll be too busy sorting/packing for the following week's trip to Costa Rica.
My "calibration" approach is quite crude. I have an iMac with nice bright LCD monitor. I have an Epson printer that I seldom use, but my wife needed something printed in color a few weeks ago so I put in new cartridges and did not only her job but also printed a few of my photos. I discovered (rediscovered) that images that look right on my nice bright screen look too dark on paper. So I adjusted my monitor to a lower intensity, increased exposure on the images (.66-1.0 stops) to get them "bright enough" on the darker screen, and then was able to get decent prints on the Epson. I used the same approach with the images Blurb will be printing in the book. We'll see... For what it is worth, when I look at the pdf preview of my book vs. previews of others' books, the images on screen seem comparable, so I think I will be at least fairly close. stan On May 30, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Stan: Ah, Venice: love, music, art, culture, romance, great food-- > and > laundry? ;-) Seriously, those photos are just lovely. Some favs > are 2, 7, > 10, 24, 27, 36, 41, 42. > > Stan, I'd be very interested in knowing your impressions of how the > photos > look in the book. Do you have the type of computer monitor that Mark > Roberts was talking about--the fancy souped up ones: IPS or VA? > > Again, great collection. > Cheers, Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stan Halpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:17 PM > Subject: GESO- Venice > > >> Sunday I completed my first trial book on the Blurb site. Have no >> clue how the images in the book will compare to what I was working on >> at my computer; I'll find out late next week. Meanwhile, since I had >> the Venice collection sorted and some selections made already, I just >> uploaded a selection to Zenfolio. >> >> http://photos.stanhalpin.com/ and, obviously, select the Venice >> folder. >> >> #61 is for Gianfranco, but also for Frank... >> >> stan >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
