If I am like some of you, I have a difficult time thinking of a specific item for some of the challenges. I have some great shots, but they usually are not planned out. They just "happen". So most of the challenge shots here are very sub-par. Then I had what I thought was a great image to enter into the last free study. I entered it, thinking this is the image that will help me turn the corner. It had perfect tone, contrast, the model was beautiful, I was finally ready to get some good comments. But then my heart sank. The comments were quite the contrary, and the scores bad. I have a Mac, and I didn't know that Windows machines show things differently. I even saw the image on a Windows machine at work and it looked horrible. Just horrible. Here is the image.
What could I do? I had this great image (or at least what I thought) and everyone else was seeing this crappy image. I went in and re-edited it. Now on my monitor the extra contrast and brightening I used on the re-edit took away from the smoothness and original "feeling" I originally aimed for. So here is my re-dited image.
To combat this problem in the future, I did some research, and purchased the spider software/hardware. I am hoping this will help with future problems, but I am not sure. One question I have, is does anyone else have this problem, and what have you done for yourself to fix the problem?
P.S. Here is an outtake image that I was thinking on putting in the challenge. It still looks a bit dark on the windows machines though
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