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12/17/2015 09:26:30 AM · #1 |
would it make any difference? I noticed that when I did in the evening calibration actually reduced the brightness and contrast and my pics started looking dull and I had to reset it back to original setting.
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12/17/2015 10:30:32 AM · #2 |
If you are doing it by eye, the ambient lighting will make a dramatic difference. If you are doing a hardware-based calibration (spyder, XRite i1, etc.) then there are options to take into account the ambient lighting, and whether you do or not will again make a difference. Best practice is to always edit in lighting as close as possible to that which you calibrate in.
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12/17/2015 11:00:37 AM · #3 |
| I should have mentioned that I am using ColorMunki Display and the software that comes with it. I used it in the kitchen where I have daylight bulbs (5000K) and tried to calibrate. I used the calibration device for the first time in my life so possible that I didn't do it how it suppose to be :) |
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12/17/2015 11:11:47 AM · #4 |
Definitely experiment a little, and do look at the options available for compensating for ambient light levels. Try creating profiles both with and without compensation if you can, and compare the difference.
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12/17/2015 11:27:04 AM · #5 |
If the room is brighter, the edits will tend to be brighter, and vice versa. The screen looks brighter if the room is darker.
Compare a few current edits to a known well edited shots by yourself, or others, in the same light environment you use where you normally do your edits.
My first thought was that you were talking about the LCD on your camera when shooting at night. I always turn LCD brightness down at least a couple of clicks or all the way down, depending on ambient light when shooting at night.
It helps a lot to do that to get well exposed images when your eyes are adjusted to the dark. With the LCD at normal brightness, a well exposed night shot looks very bright while you are shooting.
Hope you get the calibration thing worked out to your satisfaction soon. |
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12/17/2015 11:28:22 AM · #6 |
| What's the purpose for calibration? I bought and used the spyder and as you i reset to the original settings. My understanding is that if you don't use it for printing then you don't really need it :) |
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12/17/2015 12:12:29 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
What's the purpose for calibration? I bought and used the spyder and as you i reset to the original settings. My understanding is that if you don't use it for printing then you don't really need it :) |
First, let me state that most good-quality displays are a lot closer to where they need to be "out of the box" than used to be the case. They are still usually very much too bright, however. I did see a noticeable improvement on my Dell U2711 at home, and on both the native and external screens on my work laptop with hardare calibration. The very least I would do is a software-based (manual adjustment) calibration, and frankly, for the current price of good calibration hardware, it's worth it just for the time savings over trying to adjust manually.
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12/17/2015 12:28:02 PM · #8 |
| I agree but if one takes pics and posts them on the web then those with non calibrated monitors (i.e. the majority) will see a very different pic. |
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12/17/2015 12:40:34 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
I agree but if one takes pics and posts them on the web then those with non calibrated monitors (i.e. the majority) will see a very different pic. |
They will. So might those using old browsers that aren't color-managed, if we're not careful to convert to sRGB prior to posting. Still, we want things to be correct for those who care, and we have to assume that folks that are really interested in photography will take the time to make sure their monitors are at least close.
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