On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 02:10:42PM -0400, frank theriault scripsit: > 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.
The histogram is the shape of the pile of shiny. > Your comment that it looks good on your monitor is meaningful to me, > and I thank you for it! You're welcome! -- 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.
