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11/18/2015 05:47:28 PM · #1
So. I haven't been entering much, but I couldn't let "pets" pass without something. Mo WAS NOT being cooperative. And my photography sucked that night. But I had the idea to take one of the shots and try to make it interesting since he was disappearing into the background. I figured I'd see what happened.

Here's the issue: I got a new monitor. I don't have calibration software. I just looked at my old stuff and it look ok. I've only done two things since I bought the monitor: Environmental Portrait, Juxtapose, and Pets. I liked a different shot for environmental portrait, but when I looked at it on my husband's laptop, it looked too dark, even though it looked fine on my monitor. So I entered something else. I edited that photo at night. During the day, I went back and looked at it, and it looked a bit too dark on my monitor.

For the pets shot, I liked how I edited it (though I didn't like the grain). I edited it at night. When I looked on my phone, it was SOOOOO much different. I figured it was a phone, so I didn't care.

During the day, I couldn't see as much of an outline of the cat. I asked a couple of friends what they saw, and they highlighted it for me. I think they both did it during the day. I did a quicker highlighting job, just to show how far down I can see the cat on my monitor at night.

Huge difference!

I think during the day, this monitor is fine. But at night, in a dark room, the brights appear much brighter. My old monitor had a difference between night and day, but not nearly as large.

It's also a reminder that screens are calibrated quite differently across the DPC viewing world. And this is just a simple demonstration.

entry:



What one person sees:



Another:



How far down I can see


11/18/2015 06:20:21 PM · #2
The entry looks very dark to me too. I can't see anything at all beyond the upper chest area.

I also noticed that if I edited after dark, that the edits look pretty dark the next day. I solved my situation by putting a lamp behind me, but near the computer table, so that I can brighten up the area around the monitor.
You might also try putting some images edited with your older setup in an easy to access file, so that you can compare lighting levels with those in ongoing edits.

It's similar to the problem with shooing at night after your eyes adjust to the dark. The images look very bright in the LCD if they are exposed correctly, so I turn the LCD brightness down to minimum when shooting in the dark.

Let's go shooting again sometime soon. Birds will be nesting here in a couple of months.

Message edited by author 2015-11-18 18:22:16.
11/18/2015 06:50:01 PM · #3
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:

The entry looks very dark to me too. I can't see anything at all beyond the upper chest area.

I also noticed that if I edited after dark, that the edits look pretty dark the next day. I solved my situation by putting a lamp behind me, but near the computer table, so that I can brighten up the area around the monitor.
You might also try putting some images edited with your older setup in an easy to access file, so that you can compare lighting levels with those in ongoing edits.

It's similar to the problem with shooing at night after your eyes adjust to the dark. The images look very bright in the LCD if they are exposed correctly, so I turn the LCD brightness down to minimum when shooting in the dark.

Let's go shooting again sometime soon. Birds will be nesting here in a couple of months.


I might be down there in february. :)
11/18/2015 07:20:41 PM · #4
Of course there are huge differences in the perception you can have of a certain image between day and night, especially for dark images.

But well, this image is way too dark IMO. At night here now but I can only see a minimal outline, like this:

11/18/2015 09:18:53 PM · #5
So...I have a question.

A few years ago, when I first started using Photoshop, I got interested in post processing. In the beginning, I edited using my eyes to k now when it looked right. I had a few comments telling me my images were too dark. I went thru the whole exercise of checking it on a bunch of different displays, including my phone, getting widely different results. I discovered that I had adjusted my monitor for my own eye comfort, which meant I had the brightness turned down a lot. (I compensate for that now by sitting at more than arm's length away from my monitor).

So then I started doing some research online. The end result of which was I use Photoshop's auto-adjust exclusively for tone, color & contrast as part of my global adjustments. I still check on a variety of displays, but now I only see minor differences.

So Wendy, my question is...what does your image look like if you auto-adjust for tone, color, & contrast? And can you use that as a starting-point to get what you want?

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I share the experience of only seeing the eyes on your cat, plus a little face, ear, & shoulder detail.

Message edited by author 2015-11-18 21:21:13.
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