Well good thing on this post, I learned alot, so I would like to be the FIRST to THANK all of those who spent time and even gave one of the best photo examples (Ron) to show what the heck can go on with monitors and browsers, nice job Ron and you even helped Socrate, that is something we don't get to do often
Special thanks to all those that ANT has NOT replied to, that should cover everyone, right ANT So next time when you present us one of these thinking and researching questions......................well you will just have to figure it out yourself..................Have I helped ya buddy
hey thanks marla I guess I won't need to comment now lol
Sori about the delay on comments
My daughter is here visiting and I only get to see her a few times a year
Ok back to spending quality time with my daughter and I will comment later
Tonight after she goes to bed
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
Look harder Nello I'm sure you can find something
Glad you enjoyed photos from Da Ant
Hey wat ar featers?
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. Garen
LMAO No these could be yours Garen > they're just to good to be Chads LMAO
thanks Garen
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. So, there you have it. Tim ...Show more →
No it makes sense Tim. I typically want to see a good return on my investment. When I purchase something I usually ignore the price tag and buy the best bang for the buck my money can buy. I still struggle with purchasing a calibration device because I don't fully understand at what point my investment reaches "The point of diminishing return"
I can spend 300 dollars or 1,000 dollars >> But do I get a good return on my investment for the extra 700 dollars?? That's my dilemma and until I reach a final conclusion I'm pretty much stuck where I'm at
It was easy to come to that conclusion when purchasing the 500 IS and 600 IS as the proof and information is easily found all over the net. When it comes to the calibration devices it seems as if there is no foregone conclusion >> Seems results are mixed every where you turn. Care to shed some light on your device and how you feel about it? I know Socrate just purchased one of the devices I have been interested in for some time.......... Waiting for his final decisions
I have not printed a single photo of mine as of yet. I'm still waiting to capture on that's worth going to print But some day............ SOME DAY ..............
thanks for the nitts and picks on my pics too my friend.
Nice thk you for replying to my comment finally I did grow another 3 strands of grey hair in the mean time though P.S. me & Chad know that the only reason you bought the iphone: so you can watch porn wherever you are hahahahaha
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. http://www.tech-report.net/discussions.x/14627 Nice shots, I like the eagle that thinks hes an owl.
hmmmm I purchased this monitor on the advice of a DH then LMAO
I am guessing Ron had the same advice from the same DH
Geeze I knew I shouldn't have bought a dang POS Dell.................
Thanks for the link buddy
Was informative and useful
Wow you can actually be useful sometimes
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
thanks Dave really appreciate you commenting. Is there a way to decrease the posterizing besides larger file size? I tried to decrease it by trying different amounts of BG noise removal thinking that might help >> But didn't notice much of a difference.
Surprised you picked the otter. I felt I needed more contrast but didn't like the way it affected the balance. Also I have a heck of a time taking an image of these guyz where I like their eyes. they always look cloudy and hazy to me.
