How's the exposure on this?

marlinspike · November 11, 2006

How does this look in terms of exposure?

Thanks,
Richard

Andy · November 11, 2006

marlinspike wrote:

How does this look in terms of exposure?

Thanks,
Richard

Exposure is good

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.

marlinspike · November 11, 2006

Andy wrote:

Exposure is good
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.

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).

Andy · November 11, 2006

marlinspike wrote:

Also, your correcting looks a bit too...well not red, but tan.

I'm gonna stand by it

Check the values with your eyedropper

marlinspike · 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).

marlinspike · November 12, 2006

Dgrin is a neutral gray, right?

ivar · November 12, 2006

marlinspike wrote:

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!

marlinspike · 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 Based · November 14, 2006

Adobe1998 color patch

marlinspike wrote:

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.

claudermilk · November 15, 2006

ivar wrote:

What do you mean? dgrin is red.....!

Nah, it's GREEN!

How's the exposure on this?

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