wlaidlaw Posted March 4, 2007 Share #1 Posted March 4, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Taken with Leica M8 and Zeiss Biogon 21mm No filter. Levels and colour temp adjusted in ACR. Re-sized and converted to JPEG in PSE4 Mac. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stuny Posted March 4, 2007 Share #2 Posted March 4, 2007 wilson - I've very pleased to see you posting photos again. I very much like the composition and overall feel of this shot but I think it is a bit too flat. I hope you don't mind, but I did a quick adjustment.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted March 4, 2007 wilson - I've very pleased to see you posting photos again. I very much like the composition and overall feel of this shot but I think it is a bit too flat. I hope you don't mind, but I did a quick adjustment.... Stuart, I think it very much depends on the screen you are watching it on. On my iBook, your adjustment looks quite a bit better but when I look at it on my big dual CRT's (Lacie Electron Blue MkIV 22") mine looks about right, whereas your one has gone a bit hard and contrasty. My screens are running in calibrated sRGB. I had pulled the contrast up quite a bit when I first processed it on site with the iBook but when I got home, I decided I had gone OTT with the contrast and I reprocessed it on my Powermac with the CRT's , pulling the contrast back to only about 7% up against 15% on the iBook. I also feel you lose a little bit of contrast when you downsize from 3936 x 2624 to 950 x 633. Wilson Wilson Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted March 4, 2007 Share #4 Posted March 4, 2007 Hi Wilson, I thought it was flat too - I checked on my MacBook and XP desktop. If you look at the histogram there are no blacks, and that explains the flatness. A simple adjustment of the black point was all that was required to give it more punch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share #5 Posted March 5, 2007 Hi Wilson, I thought it was flat too - I checked on my MacBook and XP desktop. If you look at the histogram there are no blacks, and that explains the flatness. A simple adjustment of the black point was all that was required to give it more punch. Steve, I will have to see if I can borrow the Greytag Macbeth calibrator again and do the two Lacie CRT's on my Powermac. I may have the contrast too high on them and certainly they give very deep blacks. This would mean that I am not getting the black point right when I adjust photos in ACR. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted March 5, 2007 Share #6 Posted March 5, 2007 Wilson, it could well be a simple calibration issue at your end. The histogram seems to indicate that may be the case if you're seeing blacks on your system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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