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[semrich]

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This street market gets set up in the morning and torn down in the evening every Thursday.

 

R-D1, lux 35, 800

 

Thanks for looking,

Richard

[vic vic]

richard - again very good work.

 

and again - im not sure about the tonality... maybe monitor is the issue (i have putted now my monitor on gamma 2.2 bt still not balanced enough).

u said that u use lightroom with raw. maybe try to reset the picture when u get to the develop mode and start te developing of the raw from the biggining (lightroom reads some settings rite from the camera and makes automatic adjustemnts - so reset it and dont be surprised if the real RAW looks wierd - it is ok). maybe better use the photoshop if u have it. if u want u can send or upload somehow one of your RAW and i will try to help with it. the photos r so good, and deserve to be perfect :-)

[semrich]

Victor,

 

I only use Lightroom as a library and viewer. At present I open my photos with the EpsonRaw Plug-in in CS2. I shoot with the R-D1 in B&W and they open that way. I play around with exposure, curves, filters, contrast until I think it looks good, open it in CS2, smart sharpen, save for web and post it.

 

I am working with a 20" Intel iMac and use the huey calibration with its continous room light monitoring.

 

I only started taking photo seriously as a hobby the beginning of May this year, and learning "by the seat of my pants" as I go. So it would seem that I need to work on developing an "eye" for tonality. At this moment I tend to be swinging back and forth between to bright and to dark.

 

If you have pointers I can send you the raw file for this, it will be a large file.

 

Richard

[vic vic]

ah richard i see...

dont want u to throw into deep water of pro work..

keep on doing your great job with the camera, and since it is raw then u can always get back to it - that is the best thing with raw.

 

but here are some suggestions so that u can improve the things step by step.

 

your imac is great, of course, but calibrate the monitor - this is essensial. the monitors from te factory are not realy calibrated. the best thing is optical stuff. monaco, and there are some others too, but thas is expanssive. u can do it with the os-x calibration in "expert mode". i wrote to ilan (one of the members here) some detailed instruction to get to very accurate (almost like optical) calibration, i will find that thread and redirect it to u.

 

about raw - i highly recomend working with the raw rite from the start - and then making all the adjustments etc. this way u will get far greater control. your camera is very good and it supposed to give u pro quality. do not trust the built in stuff. open the raw as real raw. it is more time consuming of course, but the results are far better. just select the images u want to spend your time on them.

 

exposure - with the raw it is good idea to "tend" with the exposure towards the highlight readings. although not as much as would be with jpegs. reading the light somewhere between the midtones and hilights with RAW is the best i think. from here u can adjust the image with best information avalable from the scene.

 

ah richard - i do not suggest to use that automatic room light monitor adjustment. uncheck it and put your monitor to its brighest side. make sure that in "universal accacibility" there is everything realted to monitor and contrast/color is on normal and no special adjustments there. it is not good for accuracy of monitor.

[vic vic]

richard heree is the monitor calibrationn in details as i wrote to ilan (mamber here).

 

for bets results:

 

1. set your desktop pic to plain black. if no black in the desktop pics then prepare one with photoshop or keynte in 1440x960 pix or bigger if u have 17". place that pic in the desktop pics folder (path: hd-library-desktop pictures-solid colors).

2. from here, work in the dimly lit room, of course, no light falling on your monitor from any lamp.

3. got into sys-prefs - display - color, and click calb, and then click down there on the "expert mode"

4. place all the sliders exactly in the center, go to the next step and again, place all of them in the center. place the white point to native, and next choose your prefered gamma - either 1.8 or 2.2. u can make two calibrated profiles if u want later, one with gamma 1.8 and one with 2.2.

5. do not continue. go back to the first step now, u have "back button and use it untill u reach the first step.

6. now start calibrating.... take a little distance from your monitor, so that u still can use your track pad comfortably. of course, tilt the monitor to correct viewing angle.

move the left slider untill u see that the apple logo is least viewable as u can reach. when done, now move the right slider untill u see the closest color matching of apple logo and the surrounding squere. on the first step u will not get the most correct result, but no worries, there are next steps for it.

7. repeat this procedure with the next steps. now it is going to be much eassier to much the logo with the squere. but still, it needs a little practice.

8. white point should be native, gamma of your choice.

9. call this profile some name, i usually use date as name.

example: 0108-g-1.8 (0108 is date, and g-1.8 indicates gamma). if u use optical device then u just write some indication like m (for monaco device). if u make varius calibrations for various lighting conditions u can indicate it as well in the name, like tung (for hot light) etc. otherwise, working in dim light for foto editing is a normal condition, and it is here that u need a well calibrated monitor.

 

u can do it a couple of times untill u get more comfortable with those sliders. generally, u should get good results. most of the powerbooks has a monitor with some purple like tint to them. no check out and u gonna see that the tint is removed. set the desktop pic to solid grey, and then togle between the monitor profiles. u will see it clearly. of course, if u made gamma 2.2 u will have slightly darker, but then u will have more comfort with pics for web, since most of the users and graphic designers too use gamma 2.2 as normal.

if u get back to the aqua desktop, u will see how the blue/sky color is dramatically improved and got clean of color tints.

 

ah, no worries if u get too much monitor profiles, u can delete them of course. they r located in : hd-library-colorsync-profiles-display. u can remove those u dont need anymore.

[colorbox]

good shot about atmosphere of a street market

[mub]

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very nice shot. I like it.

Doesn't look digital to me at all.