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01/29/2005 06:15:10 AM · #1 |
When you either submit a photo or judge a photo, do you set your monitor brightness so that you can just distinguish the line between the two darkest squares on the brightness adjustment bar under each photo???
This brightness adjustment bar sits under each 150 kilobyte photo during the voting phase.
I think some do not. They will submit too dark or too light images, or see others imsges too dark or too light.
It is also helpful to have the contrast control of your monitor set to the highest contrast possible.
Message edited by author 2005-01-29 06:20:08.
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01/29/2005 06:29:44 AM · #2 |
Brightness and Contrast are just two of the adjustments needed for proper calibration -- Temperature set to compensate for ambiant lighting and Gamma set at 2.2 (standard for Internet graphics) are also vital.
A forum search for sRGB, monitor calibration and monitor profile will get plenty of reading of the subject. :D
BTW: I like the 'Mammals' section of your portfolio -- some good stuff in there.
David
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01/29/2005 03:45:35 PM · #3 |
David (Britannica,)
Thank you so much. My nvidia card has a setting for gamma, which I had set to 2.2. When I looked at the monitor adjustment site I saw that my gamma was way off. I then realized that the nvidia card wanted the gamma set to 1.0 to achieve a 2.2 gamma.
I adjusted the brightness to get a correct black point, and the gamma changed. Now, everything seems okay with the gamma set up one notch on my nvidia card.
Really love your work and especially your descriptions of how you produce the images you do.
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01/29/2005 03:57:43 PM · #4 |
| Nope, mine was dark. Which explains some of the comments I've been getting. Now I have to go through my portfolio and re-work some photos in PS so they look the way I want them to. |
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01/29/2005 04:06:57 PM · #5 |
as far as I can tell, my monitor is calibrated properly, and now I'm getting some heat for that in one of the current challenges. Some voters see in my photo ghosts in the dark areas that on my monitor appear completely black. Only if I crank the brighness way up I start seeing them, too. I should've checked for that and move the dark point to eliminate them completely (my fault!), but I just did not realize it since they were totally invisible on my screen. Good lesson for the future.
Message edited by author 2005-01-29 16:08:30. |
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