Hi Lou, I like the Ireland shots.
Hi Lou, Amazing pictures! Makes me want to visit Ireland right now. White water kayaking, I’m chicken, I will stick to my canoe. Thanks for posting your great albums.
You take mighty lovely pictures!
Jane
Ireland shots are superb! The waterfalls are just amazing!!! Nice job, Lou 🙂
Ray
Great shots! Thanks for sharing them.
Nice job Lou….. The Emarald Isle shots I think are going to be popular… and for good reason….
david
Thanks for the comments, everyone. Feel free to be brutal if you think there’s anything I can improve on.
The waterfalls are just amazing!!!
There’s lots of water in Ireland. 🙂 (Actually, there’s lots of water in Minnesota right now, too. Ugh. I feel like a wet rat!)
There are some really wonderful images in it. Congratulations! You should have had a wonderful time.
But to me, some of them, on my calibrated monitor, look a little dark. Did you postprocess any of them or were they just out of camera?
Leen
Thanks for your comments, Leen. Good to see you back!
Yeah, I was noticing the same darkness at work on Friday, on my Windows machine. They look much brighter on my Mac. I know there’s a gamma difference between the two, but this seems worse than usual.
Many of them have been post-processed, but not all. The Ireland pictures are from before I got a digital SLR, so the 4:3 images are all from my Canon A70 (which are so saturated and sharpened that I wouldn’t dare add any). Most of the non-4:3 images from Ireland are from my film SLR, so, yeah, they’ve been post-processed. 🙂 All the Whitewater Kayaking images are from my DSLR in JPEG mode, and the whites are pretty much blown out, so there weren’t huge changes there either.
I’m not using color management in PSE3, so I don’t think there are any color profiles tagging along and messing things up. But I am using the freeware JAlbum software to create the albums.
If anyone can help me figure out what I’m doing wrong here I’d appreciate it. Thanks.
Lou,
What application do you use to bring the pictures in the computer? Image Capture can (and I believe it does it by default) tag the pictures with a default colour profile. That could explain it.
Ray
Hi, Ray!
How I bring pictures in depends on the kind of pictures. Scanned negatives come directly from my Nikon scanner into PSE. My Canon A70 photos (JPEGs) get brought into iPhoto directly. The Pentax *ist DS DSLR photos get brought in by drag & drop in the Finder, since iPhoto does not recognize their Raw format.
(After reading this post, it occurred to me that I’m not a brand snob; in fact, I don’t think any two products that I own are from the same company! Laster Printer? Brother. Color printer? Epson. Flatbed scanner? Canon. Slide scanner? Nikon. DSLR? Pentax. 1 DSLR lens each from Pentax, Tokina, Sigma, and Tamron. Video camera? Sony. Monitor? NEC. Keyboard & mouse? Logitech. USB hub? Belkin. DVD+Rs? Fuji. CD-Rs? TDK. DVD+RWs? HP. CD-RWs? Imation. It must be a disease.)
Lou, Do you use that monitor test in the Save for Web window? I was appalled to see what my images looked like on a Windows monitor.
I have changed to 2.2 gamma because of that and info at the bottom of the page and rest of the site here;
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I can’t believe I am sitting here trying to think with 4 hours of sleep.
Humm… I sure have total different habits…
– Canon EOS 10D
– Canon Powershot A510
– Canon Elan 7e (now r.i.p.)
– Canon EOS IX (APS camera with SLR capabilities, uses EF lenses) – Canon LiDE 35 scanner
– Canon iP6000D printer
– Sigma 28-135, Sigma Macro 50mm, Sigma wide angle 20mm. – PowerMac with Apple Mouse and Apple Keyboard (but wireless)
I think I’m a brand guy… 😀
Ray
Lou, they look dark on my imac, too, which is running at the fp-imac native gamma of about 2.0. You might want to get gamma toggle, which lets you quickly switch between calibrations right from the menubar for stuff you want to check for different setups. I think it’s still freeware (don’t know about tiger compatibility,though).
Lou
I just got a chance to look at your Web space … too much work not enough life. The shots from Ireland are wonderfully moody as I imagine the emerald isle would be. What can I say about the white water shots If I don’t have a paddle in my hand I want to look at photos of others with paddles in theirs.
Grant
Thanks, Grant. I’ll be paddling this weekend but alas without my DSLR. Seems it developed a battery-draining problem. 🙁 Off to the factory it went.
Alex, we did get a few minutes of sunshine today! Definitely starting to feel like a mole!
Thanks, everyone (especially Leen) for your comments and suggestions. I think the real problem with the darkness of some of the photos is very simple to explain.
I can point a finger right at the villian, and the finger would be pointing directly at . . . er, well, um . . . it would point directly at me. The old "PBKC"–problem between the keyboard and the chair.
Ireland was moody, but it wasn’t grim. 🙂 Some of the photos just need a little lightening. I think it was just a matter of me not overriding the exposure which was of course aiming for neutral gray average exposure. Using PSE and Raw has certainly made me pickier about what constitutes a good exposure.
