New Monitor - Dell 24" widescreen
Not Calibrated
Just trying to see where I'm at..............
Yes I'll buy a calibrator one of these days................. maybe...................
To much money and I can't afford one
All older files from earlier this year 08
C & C much appreciated as I may need to make another monitor adjustment or a
head adjustment depending on the photo.
Ant
1) Older file with the
Mark III
100 - 400 IS
I have a few thousand of these I'm still getting around to processing and looking at.
They all start to look the same after awhile > Just different poses.
8) The last time I posted this (A few days ago) The few comments I did receive
stated this shot was soft............ I added a touch more sharpen....................
To much??
Wow dude holy cr@p these look awesome don't know if it's the new monitor but these look perfect to me! I gazed at them really hard trying to find something wrong but failed!
Killer shots most of them! specially the eagle..perfect exposure and you managed to get great detail both from black & white featers! must be the camera
One of those coyote shots is very nice And it is the one that looks like it is eating a pink orchid, well you say it is licking its nose but I see things differently
#4 dock scene is neat, such a different texture than I am used to seeing, you did well controlling any hot spots buddy
#6 is like #8...... a difficult angle to make look sharp. I don't think the extra sharpening in #8 helped, just seems a bit soft on the eyes and that is a critical nit on a pretty subject
My official nit-ruling...........you got a good monitor, and, your looking very good on it Mr Ant Whit................
Man that is a nice hummer shot for color and exposure I might be crop crazy but I would take another notch off that branch inward to remove that stub that is bugging me, would make the branch much more flowing out to you little hum-mer
Baldy looks real good in the whites, clean nice image Ant, I am guessing the darks look good but the work monitor is questionable in that area
#5 I like it! Would like it even more if you leveled it The water color with the bird colors works very well IMO
#3 Great whites, my goodness those look good, I would think you may have even beamed this one?? Nice PP sir
Awesome shots Anthony, the title had me confused with my own Oldies but Goodies thread, then when I looked the photos I realized it can't be mine these are great pictures.
A couple of things, it looks like the eagles head is on backwards, go back and reshoot and get it right.
4 Someone has awful breath but I suppose that can be expected with what they eat. (don't even go there)
As far as your monitor goes it is quite simple. If I say "oh the blues are perfect on my calibrated monitor", that would mean nothing as far as how yours looks. All that means is to me it looks good on a calibrated monitor with what I think the blue should look like and if you think it looks good too, well you have no idea of what I'm seeing and your thoughts on blue may be off and your monitor may be off to the side that you like.
I just reread that, I hope it makes sense. The bottom line is one needs to have a calibrated monitor if they want their prints/pictures to look good. You can't use printer profiles to your advantage if the monitor isn't calibrated. Calibrators are cheap compared to lenses and bodies. Why spend all that money on equipment and then have bad color and contrast? I'm not saying you do but you will at some point. The calibration heads south after a while and you'll never notice it. So if it is spot on now, just wait a couple of months. It won't be and the change will happen so slowly you can't see it.
Just laying out the truth.
Back to the pics.
They look great.
5 looks too blue to me but I wasn't there so I don't know what it looked like that day.
I have no idea what to do with that otter, maybe they just don't look nice in pictures, fun to watch but not photogenic(?)
2 Great shot
3 well done, kind of hot but hey white bird, hot sun, I would be happy with it if it was mine.
4 Like it, and I usually don't like seal/seal lion shots. The things are just ugly.
7 Great shot, best of the bunch except a bit tight on the ears. Love the bg, the look on the face.
Ant, FYI.... take a few minutes and read this article below.... Ron just bought the same monitor you did and is having the same problems as the guy in the article is, with his being calibrated.... you must use color management on your browser or you will see over saturation problems, Photoshop will show them correct... something about the new wide gamut monitors displaying sRGB images is not good.
spectacular images.
3, 6 and 7 are super IMO......the low res bg posterization is hurting #7 here, mostly lower left. Likely not in full HQ image though. Colors look dead on to me.
If #7 had eye contact, the image would not be as good IMO
The last does look nice sharpened up a bit but the so far OOF nose may be hurting it.
overall, a real pleasure to view this quality of work....and definitely read the stuff about wide gamut and sRGB
Hey Ant, how are you doing? Looks like I showed up just in time to see some more great shots from you -- #7 is my favorite of this set, also really like the eagle shot too.
Ant, these look great with rich colors and super detail. I imagine this are in sRGB color space (no Exif as usual ). I'm using the same Monitor you are using. I calibrated mine with Spider 3. Here is the deal with this monitor. Being a wide gamut monitor you need color managed application, such as Firefox 3. Try this: "Save as...." one of your posted images and then open it in Photoshop and compare the photoshop image with the posted one. You'll see that the posted one has more saturated colors especially the reds.
I still have mixed thoughts about this monitor. But it definately needs a good calibration. Now, Calibration is another chapter, or should I say another book?
One good thing: my prints match the screen images pretty closely.
Socrate
Ant,
Wow, these are pretty sweet images - all of them!
My favorite by far though is the wolf in # 7. Detail, color, BG, etc. This one has it all. I'm not sure eye contact would've made it better.
don't know if it's the new monitor but these look perfect to me! I gazed at them really hard trying to find something wrong but failed! 
). I'm using the same Monitor you are using. I calibrated mine with Spider 3. Here is the deal with this monitor. Being a wide gamut monitor you need color managed application, such as Firefox 3. Try this: "Save as...." one of your posted images and then open it in Photoshop and compare the photoshop image with the posted one. You'll see that the posted one has more saturated colors especially the reds.