On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 01:54:48PM -0400, frank theriault scripsit: > [snip] >> Also, does this look too dark to you? I really can't tell having >> rendered this on an uncalibrated laptop screen. > [snip] >> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/by-drake-hotel.html > > It does not appear dark on my monitor, but I note looking at a histogram > of the JPEG that there's essentially nothing above 230 in the 0-255 > distribution of values, and that there's a big pileup along the 0 edge. > The median value is bang on 128, though. > > So you can either argue that it's perfectly balanced or that it's > dark, depending on your preferences. > > Given how it looks to me, I think you're in better case to argue for > perfectly balanced than dark; there's a lot of essentially lightless > space in an overall dim scene with some large white expanses. >
I don't look at histograms because I don't know what they mean. Your comment that it looks good on your monitor is meaningful to me, and I thank you for it! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
