For what it's worth, the monitor it looked overly punchy on is the one that is calibrated. A year old 24" iMac. I wonder if it's a function of the monitor.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:31:30PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: # In a message dated 2/26/2009 9:09:17 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, # [email protected] writes: # Apart from trying again with a tripod, and maybe trying to set # exposure and WB off a grey card, do people have any recommedations? # # ============ # Just one. Cough. You seem to be shooting a lot of test shots, so I'd # suggest, just forget all that and shoot from your gut and have fun. Go for the # photos, don't worry about the equipment so much. These weren't supposed to be test shots. I've been looking at that cliff and hillside for two years, trying to figure out how to shoot it. I finally figured out a composition that I liked with the cliff and the trees in bloom, and what should be the easy part doesn't seem to be quite right. Then again, after getting the annual yesterday, maybe my standards are being set too high. And just to prove that I am also shooting "for fun" Here's another shot that I've been playing with: http://flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614457075932/ I keep a bike at the office to ride to lunch when weather and time permit. It's parked next to venetian blinds and I liked how the narrow bands of light reflected off the spokes. They do sort of continue my theme of shots that didn't quite work the way I had envisioned, so I need to try again, once I figure out what it is that I really want. Also, just when I was going to transfer yesterday's shots onto my computer, I looked over and saw some rocks that my girlfriend was warming on the floor heater. I'll try to post a couple of those. I was playing around a bit with different lenses: 31, 40 and 50mm. But, since I didn't even get home from work until almost 11, I never finished the sort and choose, much less the final processing, portions of the job. -- 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.
