Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 1/21/2011 12:48 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 Jayanand Govindaraj<jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > >> We need a much more subdued viewing screen for our tweaking of >> photographs. It >> keeps happening here - if you tell someone that his online postings look >> flat, back comes the reply that it looks fine on his screen. Of course it >> will, but on a dimmer, calibrated screen they look awful - and none of >> them >> print anyway, so never are going to accept the truth! > ====================================================================================================== > This seems a good time to ask how the tones of the pictures on my gallery > look to others, in general. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> > > I usually make them a bit darker and contrastier before uploading, to get > them to look good when I view the gallery on my screen. > > Am I fooling myself that they are decent? > > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > They look fine to me (SyncMaster monitor calibrated with Spyder 3 colorimeter and ColorEyes software on a PC). It is very reliable for soft proofing. I can see what I think is the added contrast, but then I like to print that way anyway. The ones I viewed seem to have an excellent tonal range and really black blacks, but again that is my preference. Ken