How's the exposure on this?

marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
edited November 15, 2006 in Finishing School
How does this look in terms of exposure?
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Thanks,
Richard

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    How does this look in terms of exposure?
    109659595-L.jpg
    Thanks,
    Richard
    Exposure is good thumb.gif
    It's a bit low in saturation, and the skin tones are off a tiny bit IMO

    yours on the left, mine on the right.
    109662867-L.jpg109662884-L.jpg
  • marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Exposure is good thumb.gif
    It's a bit low in saturation, and the skin tones are off a tiny bit IMO

    yours on the left, mine on the right.
    109662867-L.jpg109662884-L.jpg

    Yeah, saturation and color hadn't been touched yet (well, a batch WB, but it changed ever so slightly photo to photo so it wasn't really color set), it was just exposure I was wondering about because it's fine on my new laptop but like 1/3 stop dark on my old one.

    Also, your correcting looks a bit too...well not red, but tan. I haven't had a chance to calibrate this short of Adobe Gamma because my Eye One D2 is 400 miles away, but just for the record, how tan is the girl in your touch up? Because these girls play indoor sports, so they're kinda white. Also, on your calibrated monitor, how strongly colored are the seats in your touch up? Because in real life the seats aren't super red (though, of course, they are more strongly colored than in my version since I hand't done saturation yet).
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    Also, your correcting looks a bit too...well not red, but tan.

    I'm gonna stand by it thumb.gif Check the values with your eyedropper deal.gif
  • marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    Ok, using the eye dropper I found I did have to bring the reds down a bit via adobe gamma, but still your edit shows skin that's 27%B 44%M 69%Y, which is a bit yellow for that person, though I agree mine was off (though, even with my old calibration it was off, this was just a straight through process in RSP with a bulk setting just to check exposure).
  • marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2006
    Dgrin is a neutral gray, right?
  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2006
    Dgrin is a neutral gray, right?
    What do you mean? dgrin is red.....





    I'd get a huey or some sort of calibration method; I recently did my monitors and man, does that make a difference, wow!
  • marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2006
    ivar wrote:
    What do you mean? dgrin is red.....





    I'd get a huey or some sort of calibration method; I recently did my monitors and man, does that make a difference, wow!

    I have an Eye One Display 2, it's just 400 miles away from me. And, please don't mess with my head.
  • Carbon BasedCarbon Based Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited November 14, 2006
    Adobe1998 color patch
    I have an Eye One Display 2, it's just 400 miles away from me. And, please don't mess with my head.

    Go here: http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm

    scroll down to the bottom of the page. There is a GretagMacbeth color patch in TIF format with the RGB numbers in each color patch. You can down load it and save in a Reference file. You can then put your eye dropper over say red and you should get the matching RGB numbers.

    There is also a cool B&W ref file and a kodak ref file. Nice to have for home printing too.

    DO NOT EVER SAVE ANY CHANGES when closing and it will serve you well.

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  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited November 15, 2006
    ivar wrote:
    What do you mean? dgrin is red.....!

    Nah, it's GREEN! :D
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