[Leica] a rock, a tree, and grandma

[ericm at pobox.com (Eric)]

Mark:

> > http://canid.com/current/palisades_0504_1.html
> >
> > http://canid.com/current/painting_with_grandma_4.html

> But you don't see this so often in our modern "print to monitor" photo
> blog world. Histograms kind of point stuff like that out.

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment!

I'm curious how you'd use histograms in these specific examples.

Here are links to jpegs of histos for each of the above:

http://canid.com/pics/rock_histo.jpg

http://canid.com/pics/grandma_histo.jpg

I can tell by looking at the rock one that I have both shadows and
highlights that are clipped.  And clipped highlights in the painting
one.

To me, the histogram for the rock and tree looks like I have a fairly
even distribution of tones.  In the painting one, the white wall in
the background is blown, and you can readily see that in the
histogram.

I'm wondering if some of contrast is caused by the difference in
PC vs Mac gamma.  Any thoughts?


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Eric
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