 Christopher A. Vedros |
Can I get a monitor reality check, please?? If anyone has a minute, could you please take a look at my Washington Monument 12a image in my gallery? Without adjusting your monitor, can you see a silhouette of a person in the bottom right corner, or is it all black? I promise this is not one of those tricks where you stare at the screen and a monster jumps out at you. ;-) The image looks fine on my laptop and desktop at home, with just enough detail in the shadows to see a silhoutted photographer in the bottom right corner. But on my monitor here at work, even if I turn the brightness all the way up, the bottom of the image is black. I want to make sure the problem is with this monitor, and not that my monitors at home are set so bright that images look okay to me and too dark to everyone else. It would be great if I could get a few different eyes to look at this! Thanks!! Chris
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Mellanie |
I spot him!
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Kerry L. Walker |
It is all black to me so, considering the fact that my monitor is by no means calibrated, it is probably your monitor. After all, all my pictures look to dark on my monitor compared to the print. I really like the photo!
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David A. Bliss |
Chris, I am work right now on a monitor that has never been calibrated, and tends to show pictures darker, with less contrast, and I can see the photographer, but it does not stand out clearly. I will look at this on my calibrated monitor at home, and see what the difference is.
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Terry R. Hatfield |
Its Not Hard To See The Silhouette At All On My Monitor, Nice Image Chris!!
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Angela K. Wittmer |
mine is all black.. sorry!
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Connie J. Bagot |
Totally black for me....and now I'm worried about my monitor settings---and about how my photos look to others compared to how they look to me.
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Jon Close |
Silhouette shows fine with my monitor at work (17" Dell CRT, uncalibrated, ~5 years old).
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Thanks everyone. I've been concerned about this, since I do almost all my photo work on my laptop, and my desktop and the kids' computer at home both also have LCD screens. This is the first image that looked way too dark here at work. I was hoping it was due to this old monitor. We've been promised PC upgrades by the end of the year - fingers crossed. Thanks for the compliments, also. I had been griping about how people kept walking in front of my camera, especially when I was taking these long night exposures. But when I saw this guy down by the water, I thought it might make a nice composition. I was lucky that he stayed still long enough for the 15 sec. exposure.
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Laura E. OConnor |
It's the monitor. It's a very clear shilouette to me. And I thought I was having monitor problems!!! Thanks for the test, Chris! :) Has anyone else had a problem where the image looks fine on your camera LCD (digital users of course) and just awful when you load into Windows XP (PC), but totally different when you open them up in PS or another photo editor!??!!?? My images either look very red, orange and yellow in "My Pictures" folder after downloading, but then look fine in PS and other editors and on BP... OR they may look fine in My Pictures, but then completely flat in PS or MS Photo Editor or Picture It or on BP. ANY SUGGESTIONS???
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Brian A. Wolter |
I have duel monitors here at work and the figure shows up on both.
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Connie J. Bagot |
If I turn my brightness all the way up (it's not quite all the way up usually) then I can barely make out the figure. Have you printed this photo? I was wondering if it shows up in a print.
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DIANE COSGROVE |
Looks good to me.
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Ric Henry |
Chris, My monitor is brand new and there is a very clear silhouette there. Looks like he's taking a picture and has a fanny pack on. My monitor is brand new. Good picture Chris. Ric
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Diane Dupuis |
Funny - on my lcd monitor if I look at it straight on it's too dark - can't see anything. I got up to answer the door and from a higher viewpoint - voila- there he was!
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Jennifer S |
I have an LCD monitor and I see the guy perfectly fine! He's very visible!
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Thanks for the look, everyone. I really appreciate you all taking the time to help me out. Chris
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Debby A. Tabb |
LOL,LOL, HE'S THERE CHRIS! BUT I HAVE TO ADMITT I HAD TO REALLY LOOK, I HAVEN'T READ THE WHOLE POST YET, SO , I MAY NOT BE THE BEST JUDGE BUT I COULD BARELY SEE HIM. BUT WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CAPTURE!
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Debby A. Tabb |
LAURA, SOME PHOTOS LOOK AND MORE OVER PRINT DARKER WITH WIN XP WITH SERVICE PACK2 AND IF YOU PRINT WITH EPSON THERE IS A NEW DOWN LOAD JUST FOR THE PROBLEM.
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Anita Taylor |
I found him! I really had to search, though. I guess my monitor is really dark, too.
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BetterPhoto Member |
I found him right away, did you use a sharpie :) Did you tell him he should use a tripod?
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Laura E. OConnor |
Hi again, Debby! I do have Win XP SP2, but have only recenlty noticed this problem. I had changed the color settings on my monitor, and noticed it after that. I tried to change them back to select none, and it didn't change anything, so maybe I just didn't notice it before. I have sent that photo from last night via e-mail to a couple of BP members, and they said that it looked very red, until they opened it in PS. Same problem I have, so I guess it's nothing I've done or wrong with my monitor or PC, just something that's there? I print with HP right now, and the print matches the PS and other viewer and BP colors, so I'll just have to go by that. THANKS!
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Debby A. Tabb |
LAURA, THE PORTRAIT FROM LAST NIGHT LOOKED GREAT ON MINE-EMAIL ME AND I'LL OPEN IT,JUST TO SEE WHAT YOUR GETTING-I AM REALLY INTRESTED. THAT'S REALLY WIERD.
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