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Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

08/28/2005 04:17:37 PM · #1

My monitor is calibrated but from the comment I just received, I'm thinking it might not be as calibrated as I want it to be. I went to easyRBG.com to calibrate it. I was poking around my monitor and it has a few different option settings for the display mode (Vivid, Std, Office, and sRGB). I'm set to Vivid and had calibrated the monitor as such.

This is the comment I received from Arcanist. Thanks for the comment by the way :)

Originally posted by Arcanist:

I like this image. It is well balanced and focused just where it needs to be. The color and burn are great contrasts. The border does not seem to add anything to the whole. I see areas of patchy white blocks that have been added to the interior (perhaps to create a more high key approach, but on a calibrated monitor, are distracting (making the matches look added in as opposed to photgraphed).

I personally would drop the border and try to match the white blocked areas to the rest of the grey background (may need to increase the brightness on your monitor to see what I am seeing.)

I don't see gray areas in my image. Do you? Here is the image in question.

deapee

Kodak V803

08/28/2005 04:18:44 PM · #2

yeah, there's definately grey in there along the top right...you need to calibrate your monitor (AT LEAST) with adobe calibrator or whatever it is.

08/28/2005 04:19:55 PM · #3

DAMN! I was afraid of that. Where can I find Adobe Calibrator?

08/28/2005 04:21:29 PM · #4

On my screen, Samsung 181T DVI, I see graduated grey from bottom of the shot to the top. There is a block of white in bottom right corner. The burnt match does appear as tho added.

Sorry??

Steve

dahkota

08/28/2005 04:22:40 PM · #5

theres a square block on white in the bottom right at the bottom of the blue headed match. Thats what cuts into the bottom of the match, hiding the right corner of it. Noticible on my monitor...

I think he was referring to white blocks, not grey patches. Could be my reading of it though...

Message edited by author 2005-08-28 16:23:45.

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

08/28/2005 04:27:17 PM · #6

Here is the original:

Post processed:

I just used levels and contrast and brightness. This is extrenely disturbing because I have my challenge entries and I'm wondering if what I submit isn't necessarilry what people see.

Ok I need a little help :)

Riponlady

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

08/28/2005 04:27:57 PM · #7

To me it looks as if it has a white frame around a grey background at the top with a darker grey area to the top white. At the bottom the grey is less with white areas. ( ibook G4)

P

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

08/28/2005 04:29:57 PM · #8

There is definitely a white block on the lower right, and it appears that there is a white border around the whole image...except on the right side, there's a grey gradient line running vertically down the image.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 12-24mm f/4.0G IF-ED

08/28/2005 04:31:35 PM · #9

It's a great pic, rikki11, but you, like me, are becoming paranoid about calibration. I rarely enter challenges cos I think they are too dark/too light/too sharp/too soft...etc.

Just go for it in future and hang the results. There are bound to be 50% of voters with monitors set like yours.

Steve

jbsmithana

Nikon D300

08/28/2005 04:31:39 PM · #10

Man, must be time for a new monitor for me as I see none of this! No wonder my phots get smashed now and then.

Apple iPhone 5

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

08/28/2005 04:33:20 PM · #11

The 'gamagic' test patterns are pretty good for this (about half-way down the following page);

//www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm

Try calibrating to gamma 2.2 (although some people use 1.8, I think it's too dark)

edit: sorry, I can't remember which is the 'too dark' one, either 1.8 or 2.2!! Calibration started driving me a bit mad at the time.

Message edited by author 2005-08-28 16:38:22.

08/28/2005 04:39:07 PM · #12

Originally posted by Formerlee:

Thanks Steve! I am getting a bit paranoid about calibration. My fear is that people will score my entries low due to this. It could be construed as being too "amateurish" I guess. Although you are right in assuming that there is about a 50-50 chance that other, like myself, have the same monitor calibration problem.

This image was taken and post processed to look like a high key image. This is only my second take on this style. The first one was pretty succesful mainly because it was definitely a high key shot.

Oh my. I guess my Sharp 20D7 with an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200 video card isn't as savvy as it used ot be :(

Message edited by author 2005-08-28 16:39:52.

08/28/2005 04:42:28 PM · #13

rikki11,

If you hadn't mentioned it, I doubt many people would have noticed anything. Once you put an idea in peoples' heads, they start looking closer. I like your high key shot, and think it is time to crack a beer, sit back and let it all flow past you.

Right, now you are relaxed, it's time to move on to the next project/challenge.

Steve

08/28/2005 04:44:24 PM · #14

It's like looking for Waldo right Steve?

Cheers!

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

08/28/2005 04:49:26 PM · #15

Originally posted by rikki11:

It's like looking for Waldo right Steve?

Cheers!

Where's Waldo?? I don't see him?

Steve

pixieland

Fujifilm FinePix S602Z

08/28/2005 10:58:18 PM · #16

On the match photo my montor shows a definite white block at the bottom like you may have used it to cover something and a very pale bluish-gray background around the rest of the matches that becomes definitely gray as it reaches the top right side, then there is white surrounding that area and beyond that white, I see your border.

awpollard

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

08/28/2005 11:13:06 PM · #17

I've been bit by this one before I got a mechanical calibrator...

I have reduced the back lighting a TON so that you can see what we see at a more severe level. If your monitor is too bright when you adjusted your levels the artifacts disappear for you but others with less bright monitors will see all these neat things.

Message edited by author 2005-08-28 23:13:29.

ubique

Olympus PEN-F

Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko

08/28/2005 11:22:59 PM · #18

Originally posted by pixieland:

Me too, exactly as described by pixie.

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

08/30/2005 01:45:42 AM · #19

ok... hmmm... who's got a spider they can lend out :) how much are they anyway?

awpollard

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

08/30/2005 02:07:01 AM · #20

Originally posted by rikki11:

ok... hmmm... who's got a spider they can lend out :) how much are they anyway?

Cheapest one (don't store different gammas but works fine) is $72 AR over at www.buy.com

Andy