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RE: Photography - 4/19/2008 11:10:02 AM
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rayofson
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I had the same problem years ago when I first started scanning photo's. They were showing up really dark on the screen and I was having to adjust brightness compensation in order for them to look right.
Then I posted some of them. A friend of mine asked why all my pictures were washed out, and I didn't know what he was talking about until I viewed them on a different computer. Turned out my monitor was going south. 
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RE: Photography - 4/19/2008 4:27:53 PM
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I strongly recommend a hardware calibrator such as Spyder from Colorvision or EyeOne from Gretagmacbeth over a web site color/gray bar display. While better than nothing, it's not far from it.
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RE: Photography - 4/19/2008 8:15:36 PM
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I have the eye-one display 2 it was fairly easy to use.
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RE: Photography - 4/21/2008 11:38:49 PM
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Wow! I never realized there was so much work to all of this. Can you all tell me if this is any better, color wise? I also took this one. Neither photo has been manipulated in any way - I'm wondering if these look better, if the other could have been just the filters I was using. ??
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RE: Photography - 4/22/2008 12:09:36 AM
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those look pretty good, but on my monitor a bit on the bright, overexposed side. i forget, what software do you use?
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RE: Photography - 4/22/2008 12:36:34 AM
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does psp have a levels adjustment? or try brightness and contrast. levels better. sharpening probably did not do it.
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RE: Photography - 4/22/2008 3:01:50 AM
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RE: Photography - 4/22/2008 4:55:28 PM
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ORIGINAL: txhoneydarlin
Wow! I never realized there was so much work to all of this. Can you all tell me if this is any better, color wise? I also took this one. Neither photo has been manipulated in any way - I'm wondering if these look better, if the other could have been just the filters I was using. ??
They look good to me....I took a similar shot last year in my neighbors yard.
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RE: Photography - 4/22/2008 5:07:35 PM
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OLEEguacamole
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txhoney,
here's a video on psp levels/curves. the picture is small so hard to see the difference in the photo they're working on, but will give you the idea. you might find some other tutorials there that help too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29iYWFmjKSo
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RE: Photography - 4/22/2008 7:27:09 PM
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Wow! I never realized there was so much work to all of this. Can you all tell me if this is any better, color wise Color-wise, it looks fine. The focus is good although I'd generally prefer a shallower depth of field. As someone else said, this exposed a bit too hot and that's not uncommon. There's a cheap and easy way to handle it, though. Get a sheet of inkjet paper (or even poster paper if you have it) and (optionally) glue some aluminum foil to it. You've just built a reflector. Then you can position the reflector to bounce back some light. This can help with images where you have hard shadows or big transitions from light to dark.
For your second image, try lowering your perspective. Instead of shooting from on top of the flowers, try shooting as if you were a bee coming in for a landing. Usually makes for an interesting look.
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RE: Photography - 4/23/2008 12:26:17 AM
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Wow! I never realized there was so much work to all of this. Can you all tell me if this is any better, color wise? I also took this one. Neither photo has been manipulated in any way - I'm wondering if these look better, if the other could have been just the filters I was using. ??
On that first one, definitely burn those highlights a bit. There is a lot of brightness in the flower.
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RE: Photography - 4/23/2008 4:30:49 PM
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Is there a CW group at flickr?
good question. I post on Flickr but never looked to see if there was a group.
http://shop.fablephotography.com/index.php?do=photocart&viewImage=29177
This is not on Flickr but my daughter just shared this with me. She is one of the performers. She is wearing the small golden cap near right side of the photo.
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RE: Photography - 4/23/2008 4:44:24 PM
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Beckey - beautiful iris photo! I love the raindrops on it... and aren't you from the Lone Star state?
Thanks....yes, I'm in San Antonio 
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Is there a CW group at flickr? I know some people post there and the course has an 'unofficial' group there so I just wondered...
not that I know of...but that would be cool if someone wants to start one. I would, but I'm short on time right at the moment.
Ahhh... about 2.5 hours from me then. San Antonio (and the drive there) is so pretty this time of year! (We either go through Fredricksburg or Lampasas...)
Neat! I have a brother that lives in Marble Falls, one sister near Lufkin, another sister in Victoria, and one in Schertz. We're all over the place. But we haven't gotten to visit much since the high gas prices started.
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Perhaps the sharpening tool on IrfanView caused the overexposure? I may resize them tomorrow using PSP to see if there is a difference...
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