[LargeFormat] Re: Galleries: Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

[Brock Nanson]

OK, I'll admit I'm confused.  Not an unusual state some would say...

While I got this message, apparently posted by Robert, I don't see it on the
forum.  And in fact, the forum seems to be blank unless you link in from one
of these messages.  Is there a problem with the discus board or have I got
issues on this end?

Robert, thanks for your suggestion about the monitor settings.  While they
helped, they also managed to confuse me some more ;-)

I had set my monitor up originally with the adobe gamma wizard that came
with Photoshop 5.  Seemed to be fine.  A few months ago I purchased and
installed an Epson 2450 scanner.  When working with scans in Photocopy I
found a few strange tendencies...
- An image tweaked to look 'right' in Photoshop was horribly dark in ACDSee.
- An image tweaked to look 'right' in Photoshop looked fine in Internet
Explorer.
- An image tweaked to look 'right' in Photoshop looked fine when printed to
photographic paper at the lab.
- Readjusting the monitor tonight helps the issues I had with the images I
found to be dark previously, but the monitor is now set to maximum
brightness and contrast
- Color saturation isn't overly pleasing anymore.

I suspect the scanner software may have messed up my original settings.
However, I'm curious to know how others set their monitors for this sort of
work.  I have a Viewsonic E773 which, while not a 'pro' monitor, is
certainly a fair way from the bargain basement.  I don't think I should have
to set it to maximum (brightness and contrast), but perhaps this is normal.

Thoughts?

Brock

----- Original Message -----
From: "f32 Large Format Photography Forum" <forum@f32.net>
To: <forum@f32.net>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Galleries: Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, South Australia


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| f32 Large Format Photography Forum: Galleries: Wilpena
| Pound, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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|
| By Robert Lawrence (Robertlawrence) on Friday, July 05, 2002
| - 04:48 pm:
|
|  Graeme,
|
| Again I'd have been tempted by my Lee ND grads only this
| time one in the top and one upside down from the bottom to
| let that dark area get some exposure, with appropriate
| rotation.
|
| Brock ... your monitor may need tweaking from your comments
| on the last few posts I've seen -- you may be a little dark?
| Mine is properly colour managed and I'm not seeing the same
| porblems.
|
| Robert