Larry, The bike shot is very nice.
On my calibrated (laptop, for the time being) monitor, the colors in the hill shot look okay. =How= is your monitor calibrated? With a device, or by software? (see 2008 quotes list) Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: shooting green > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 1:52 PM > 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. -- 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.
