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10/29/2004 07:18:41 PM · #1 |
A couple of weeks ago I finaly realised that what I see in my images is nothing like what you guys see - cos my monitor was c**p. Got myself a hp pavilion f1903 yesterday, 19" of pure joy, maybe now I'll be able to submit some decent pictures. Its just hooked up with VGA until I save up for a graphics card with DVI-1 (and another boost).
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10/29/2004 08:26:35 PM · #2 |
Can you see the detail on this picture? Most people couldn't, but I can.
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10/29/2004 10:24:10 PM · #3 |
| Actually the details are very clear, it is a great picture. |
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10/29/2004 10:25:57 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
Can you see the detail on this picture? Most people couldn't, but I can. |
barely
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10/29/2004 11:15:49 PM · #5 |
Really? To me "seeing the details" is seeing that there is some sort of 'design' above the front door - it's actually some sort of intertwined infinity symbol or something, but it's there. If you can't discern that there's something over the door, that's a problem.
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10/30/2004 01:19:44 AM · #6 |
I can see a darker round object above the door, but I'd be hard pressed to say what it was.
>Mavrik, looking through the comments left, I'd have to agree with the overall sense of darkness. I don't think, though, that the commenters meant that they couldn't see any detail. I think that they meant that the building could have been brighter overall as an aesthetic choice. I agree with that. |
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10/30/2004 01:22:27 AM · #7 |
On my computer, any brighter and it's not realistic and it gets washed out looking. I'm trying to figure out what everyone else is seeing because I can't see it. I was wondering if the "new monitor" could see it and a lot of people have dark ones, or if mine is just way super over bright and even the new one doesn't pick it up very well... :)
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10/30/2004 01:31:23 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
On my computer, any brighter and it's not realistic and it gets washed out looking. I'm trying to figure out what everyone else is seeing because I can't see it. I was wondering if the "new monitor" could see it and a lot of people have dark ones, or if mine is just way super over bright and even the new one doesn't pick it up very well... :) |
If it's any help, I'd say that the main building luminance values fall between zone 3 and 4. That is, about the 20th box from the left on the white-to-black line on DPC's vote entry screen.
Message edited by author 2004-10-30 01:31:54. |
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10/30/2004 01:36:55 AM · #9 |
Ok, thanks. I was assuming by my comments that it was falling WAY over, like 4 or 5 from the right. I mean... it's dark-ISH, but ... I guess I never thought of a bright happy shiny goth building. lol
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Message edited by author 2004-10-30 01:37:08.
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10/30/2004 01:43:05 AM · #10 |
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10/30/2004 01:49:22 AM · #11 |
I can see a round something or other over the door but I doubt anyone could tell what it is. The building looks dark overall to me but there is still a good amount of detail in the building.
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10/30/2004 02:13:05 AM · #12 |
I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of working on the pic a little to show you what can be done. All that WAS done, was adjustment of the levels to bring up the saturation and brightness. It is snow, after all...and you want the red brick of the stone to really bust out and say HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOL.
Also, slightly adjusted the perspective because the building was getting narrower the further up you go. Additionally, to make it more picturesque, like you'd want, I cropped out part of the street and cloned out the dead grass from where the snow melted away. Took all of 3 minutes to do these edits, and as I said, I hope you don't mind - don't mean to offend at all.
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10/30/2004 02:25:47 AM · #13 |
I don't mind at all. I was trying to capture a bit of the feel of Syracuse in the winter - we call it Drear-a-cuse. :) I had a version like yours, but I thought the whites looked all blown out and overexposed and you couldn't tell if it was snow or erased. lol Anyways, thanks for the PS work. I was just wondering on the one I did submit if that new monitor could see it. I really didn't mean to hijack this person's post. I was just curious about its effect on my pichur.
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10/30/2004 02:32:25 AM · #14 |
well...on my computer, I have a 17" Flat Screen LCD, and it looks pretty toned down. The whites have a blue cast to it, and the red of the building leans more towards brown...So while it's a wonderful picture, I think it needs to be a little more vibrant.
Congrats to Ecce for the new hardware!
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10/30/2004 04:54:21 AM · #15 |
Andi: congrats on the new monitor.
Matt: Do you by chance use a Mac? In PS I proofed your original in Mac RGB and the building went from looking extremely underexposed to being well exposed without blowing out the snow. If you are using a Mac, try proofing for Windows RGB to see what the internet community will most likely be seeing.
David
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