On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:15:53PM -0500, Graydon wrote: # On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:56:21PM -0800, Jack Davis scripsit: # > Cute! Awfully dark..on my monitor. Among the possible shadow # > lightening methods, I'd probably use the curves tool. # # I'm one of those unix people; I'm using ufraw. # # It would not be difficult to lighten the image; I could adjust the # brightness, the saturation, turn down gamma, or move the # overall exposure to the right. I put it where I did, brightness-wise, # out of a desire to keep the varying shades of grey in the background # bokeh, but the result may be very dim for general distribution. # # I suspect that I have a brighter monitor setup than most and need to do # something to calibrate it before I try this again.
If you look at the older shots in my flickr photostream, you will see that they're all dark and dull. I was fighting two issues. First, I had my monitor cranked up to 11. Second, the native gamma of linux systems give a much punchier display than mac or windows. People were telling me that all my photos were way underexposed, and they looked perfect on my monitor everytime I checked. When I set the gamma to something more akin to the rest of the world, the photos I processed looked OK, but everything else on my computer looked like crap. I got a spyder-2 to calibrate the monitor, but getting it running was not a trivial process. I gave up and bought an iMac. I was putting in 50 hour weeks at the office and just didn't have the time and energy to deal with it at home. # # Thanks! # Graydon # # -- # 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. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
