The "help! which one?!" feedback club

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

03/20/2011 07:59:51 PM · #152

I need help deciding between 2 photos for the focal point challenge.

MargaretNet

Sony DSC-RX100 VII

03/20/2011 08:15:37 PM · #153

Originally posted by expatdawn:

I need help deciding between 2 photos for the focal point challenge.

OK. PM me.

MinsoPhoto

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

03/25/2011 10:05:46 PM · #154

~~Anyone want to help me choose my 13 entry? I have 3 options.~~ I'm good now.

Message edited by author 2011-03-25 23:10:02.

smardaz

03/25/2011 10:25:50 PM · #155

Originally posted by MinsoPhoto:

Anyone want to help me choose my 13 entry? I have 3 options.

mayhaps we can exchange opinions?

MinsoPhoto

Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

03/25/2011 10:27:38 PM · #156

Originally posted by smardaz:

Originally posted by MinsoPhoto:
Anyone want to help me choose my 13 entry? I have 3 options.

mayhaps we can exchange opinions?

Sounds good, I will send a pm

cogerox

Nikon D850

03/27/2011 07:42:10 PM · #157

I could really use some help from someone who understands what happens to a B&W when you upload it to the internet. I have a beautiful B&W I would like to enter, but when I upload the photo it gets markedly darker and loses all detail. I've tried reducing blacks first, but then the pic ends up washed out. Anyone have an idea? This is for the Edward Weston. I can pm the id to you. Thanks!

sjhuls

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/27/2011 08:00:41 PM · #158

Originally posted by cogerox:

This used to happen to me quite a bit, the solution I found was to re size it first before saving it and then fine tune the smaller sized one. I think it is the resizing that does it.

hahn23

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS II USM Lens

03/27/2011 08:19:47 PM · #159

Originally posted by cogerox:

That sounds like a low quality JPG is being uploaded. If your monitor is calibrated correctly, your monitor view should be identical between the local version and the uploaded version. A big shift should not occur. Your JPG quality on an uploaded b&W image should be near 100% quality. And, it would be unusual to have a B&W image at 800 pixels on the longest dimension that ran over 300 kb at 100% JPG quality.

cogerox

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR

03/27/2011 08:21:52 PM · #160

Originally posted by sjhuls:

Originally posted by cogerox:
I could really use some help from someone who understands what happens to a B&W when you upload it to the internet. I have a beautiful B&W I would like to enter, but when I upload the photo it gets markedly darker and loses all detail. I've tried reducing blacks first, but then the pic ends up washed out. Anyone have an idea? This is for the Edward Weston. I can pm the id to you. Thanks!

This used to happen to me quite a bit, the solution I found was to re size it first before saving it and then fine tune the smaller sized one. I think it is the resizing that does it.

I'm using Lightroom 3 and I'm not sure how to re-size before editing. Do I need to re-size in PS before editing in LR?

sjhuls

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/27/2011 08:31:50 PM · #161

Originally posted by cogerox:

Originally posted by sjhuls:

Originally posted by cogerox:
I could really use some help from someone who understands what happens to a B&W when you upload it to the internet. I have a beautiful B&W I would like to enter, but when I upload the photo it gets markedly darker and loses all detail. I've tried reducing blacks first, but then the pic ends up washed out. Anyone have an idea? This is for the Edward Weston. I can pm the id to you. Thanks!

This used to happen to me quite a bit, the solution I found was to re size it first before saving it and then fine tune the smaller sized one. I think it is the resizing that does it.

I'm using Lightroom 3 and I'm not sure how to re-size before editing. Do I need to re-size in PS before editing in LR?

Edit it first in the larger size, then re size it to 800 pixels. Once you have it in the smaller size look it over and see if you need to do any additional editing. Most of the time I just have to sharpen it back up a bit. Occasionally it looses some contrast, and I need to adjust that, or the levels, to get the richness back to the photo.

I'm not familiar with lightroom so I don't know how the resizing works in that program.

MargaretNet

Sony DSC-RX100 VII

03/27/2011 09:13:14 PM · #162

Originally posted by cogerox:

I use Lightroom and I Export from full size raw to Limit File Size To 300K, max Quality, Resize to Fit W800, Resolution 240 ppi. What Export settings do you use? Are you exporting from RAW?

Yo_Spiff

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

03/27/2011 09:30:21 PM · #163

Originally posted by cogerox:

I have a beautiful B&W I would like to enter, but when I upload the photo it gets markedly darker and loses all detail.

This sounds like a color space issue. You are probably editing in Adobe RGB, but the internet is displayed using sRGB (even though it is a b/w image, color space is still relevant). When you upload the image, it is displayed in the other color space and get mucked up in the translation. Convert your color space to sRGB early on and your final product should look about the same after you upload it. Not sure where that setting is in lightroom, but you are looking for something called color space, workspace, or something like that.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

03/29/2011 06:18:09 PM · #164

I seek your professional opinions :]

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

03/29/2011 06:25:20 PM · #165

Originally posted by Eagle40Fox2:

I seek your professional opinions :]

I have an amateur opinion. If you want that, I'm around.

03/29/2011 07:04:59 PM · #166

PM sent Thanks Spiff!

Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS

03/29/2011 09:30:17 PM · #167

1 more person care to look for my confirmation of my entry?

vawendy

Sony Alpha 1

03/29/2011 09:31:07 PM · #168

Sure -- I can take a look. :)

Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS

03/29/2011 09:56:40 PM · #169

pm sent :]

vawendy

Sony Alpha 1

03/29/2011 10:01:15 PM · #170

pm sent back. :)

03/29/2011 10:27:17 PM · #171

Crud I need one more person to help me with my mid to bottom of pack shot. lol

sjhuls

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/29/2011 10:39:16 PM · #172

I can take a look