Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Screen Settings / PhotoShop
From: Aaron Sandler <aaron.sandler@duke.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:55:02 -0500
References: <BCEKKGNGDPMOIPMEJONBMEBJEBAA.phong@doan-ltd.com> <00f101c40984$30ce3550$f131d742@clearsighjhm83> <BAY10-DAV10X9wcUags00033158@hotmail.com> <dak850dk5dpp57tt7getkrlspf4rurvskp@4ax.com> <840B44B7-75C9-11D8-9707-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca>

For the first shot, the lightest ("a") looks best on my monitor.  For the 
other two, the second ("aa") version looks best.  B&W differences are more 
dramatic to me.

Hope this helps.

- -Aaron

At 10:58 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote:
>I would appreciate some additional feedback on screen settings.  Thanks to
>Eric who was so kind last week to provide a link to his presentation of John
>Brownlow's grayscale at:
>
>http://canid.com/calibration.html
>
>I actually found going to Brownlow's presentation more helpful in that he
>presented the grayscale on a dark background as opposed to white.
>
>I have posted three versions of four different pictures starting at
>http://wesselphoto.com/Screen/slides/015_14A.html
>
>Prior to my recent interest in scanning photographs and using the computer
>for photography I typically set the brightness on my computer monitor very
>low to encourage color saturation and deep blacks.  I am afraid that having
>done so led to all of my photographs posted to date being washed out on the
>average monitor settings.  The photographs posted with this message each
>start with how I would prefer to see them with my monitor set dark.  The
>others were adjusted using the Brownlow grayscale.
>
>With the color images I am particularly interested in how the color of the
>shirts.
>
>I would appreciate any comments.  Thanks
>
>
>
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Aaron Sandler
aaron.sandler@duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2



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