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12/18/2011 04:44:12 AM · #1 |
It's probably only me on this. While I am working on my image, post process, everything looks good, I save and after a while, come back to the same image and I go "What the hell?" it's horrible looking! what was I thinking.
It's just crazy... like I have multiple personalities and one does something other one just hates it and tries to fix it :-\ |
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12/18/2011 04:48:48 AM · #2 |
| Rest assured, its not just you :) |
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12/18/2011 04:49:23 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by jagar:
Rest assured, its not just you :) |
Who said that ? |
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12/18/2011 05:05:40 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by jagar:
Originally posted by jagar:
Rest assured, its not just you :) |
Who said that ? |
you know, twin accounts is illegal here :-\ |
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12/18/2011 05:16:33 AM · #5 |
| Indeed! Sleeping on an image before submission is always a good idea. |
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12/18/2011 05:24:04 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
Indeed! Sleeping on an image before submission is always a good idea. |
My question is, what causes it? I mean, I am 100% sure of an image after I am done, save, come back in one hour... it's not that good at all. I have a theory... I think our eyes just get used to colors and composition either our work is good or not. I even see colors much differently after a while.
Can we say if we get it the first time, we have better eyes for photography? |
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12/18/2011 05:43:14 AM · #7 |
It's usually about v.5 of one of my images before it will score well. Ambient light around your monitor changes from night to day. When I get an image to "final" form, I will show it to my wife and get her reaction, explaining the context of the challenge. She is brutally honest and kicks down almost all of my images. This is good, as it toughens me up for the DPC crowd. Occasionally, she will like an image. Then, I know I'm closer to having something which will score well. Probably the biggest help to me for reality check is to print out a version of a challenge entry on photo paper. This really lets me gauge tonal range better than a review of the histogram. If it prints well, then most of the badly calibrated monitors out there have a chance to display the image in an acceptable way. If it doesn't print well, then I'll miss most of the monitors that are not calibrated like mine (or miscalibrated, like mine).
Viewing an image on several monitors and operating systems and browsers is usually very beneficial. Various systems render images quite differently. That's a given. I think the biggest test of an image is to display correctly on an "economy" laptop in full daylight. Usually the owner will have turned screen brightness to very high. Tough on an image which is already high contrast, by design. |
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12/18/2011 08:13:48 AM · #8 |
That's true about how an image looks on screen when the ambient light changes. It also changes the way it looks to see it in a different window on the same computer. When editing in a darkened room in full screen mode, images generally will be much darker than you would want them to be when you view that same edit in a window with bright things like white background, or borders or adv's in the same view.
My experience with full screen editing has been that it's about right when the brightest areas of the image are very near "blowing out" , so it's been necessary for me to adjust my perception of what is right to be quite a lot brighter. I seem to do pretty good about color, though it's easy to overdo the saturation when working too long on an image, esp one with skin tones in it.
It happens to me too, and more often if the editing was done when I was sleepy or tired.
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12/18/2011 09:01:41 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
Indeed! Sleeping on an image before submission is always a good idea. |
But, they're so darn lumpy! |
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12/18/2011 11:14:27 AM · #10 |
Yeah it happens :-) but interestingly I find the opposite also sometimes.... You ignore an image as junk then a long time later you look at it and go... humm..... It happens a LOT more with images of the kids.
This is a lot of the reason I rarely delete stuff - apart from the OOF (which I hate) or missed frames that is..... the rest kinda sits in digital purgatory so to speak, sometimes they get a rethink. |
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12/18/2011 06:53:39 PM · #11 |
| What you're describing is pretty much the same thing that happens with blind taste tests, e.g. with an expensive wine and a really cheap sweeter wine (an example that comes to mind I've seen a few times) - under direct comparison people will more often go for the sharper, sweeter of the two, where as tasted on their own, receptions are much more as you'd expect. Same goes for images, it's very easy to push the contrast or push the saturation a tiny bit and think "that looks better" even though the difference is very slight. The problem is, just because under direct comparisons a slightly more vivid image can often seem better, that's not the whole truth. I'm guessing more than a handful of people here have at one time or another spent ages making micro adjustment to an image only to preview the original and realise it looked better before =). |
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12/18/2011 07:13:10 PM · #12 |
a pic can always be re-edited
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12/18/2011 08:52:17 PM · #13 |
| I prefer passionate submissions, void of any thought of voters preferences. and I love it when a challenge is announced and only 20 minutes later there are 4 entries!wtf! |
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12/18/2011 09:47:09 PM · #14 |
| I always look at the image the next day and think I can do better. After re-editing it I almost always like my first attempt and end up leaving it as is. |
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12/19/2011 04:34:08 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by bhuge:
I always look at the image the next day and think I can do better. After re-editing it I almost always like my first attempt and end up leaving it as is. |
In oil or acrylic painting, it is quite similar- sometime it is best to leave well enough alone. |
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