Re: Photos of Last Week's Charters - "De Gustibus Non Disputandem"
| October 22, 2016 10:53AM |
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dave2-8-0 Wrote:
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> Viewing high quality modern digital images
> on anything but a high quality calibrated mon-
> itor may give you a view that does not repre-
> sent the true image.
Absolutely true, Dave -
Especially if you're going to be making prints for sale or doing other professional work. I'm doing neither, just flipping back and forth - on the same monitor and within a minute or two - between the two different sets of photos, so the differences I'm seeing aren't due to different calibrations but to the different styles of interpretation.
As John noted, I'm a former 35 mm Kodachrome shooter (beginning in 1958, switching to 6x7 cm Ecktachrome in 1975), and I tend to prefer the more traditional look as exemplified by my fellow senior curmudgeons - John himself, Tom Gildersleeve, et al. My initial response to Kevin's photos was the same as Greg's - they're wonderfully composed and very striking, but just a hair too intense for my old-fashioned taste. I wasn't going to comment about this at all until I read Greg's post, but at least now we have something to "discuss" other than the exact shade of dark olive green that is appropriate for brand-new K-37's circa 1928 and 1930 . . .
- Gramps
p.s. My monitor is a ViewSonic VP2655wb, driven by an AMD Radeon HD76600D. To the extent that it's calibrated, I try to match the appearance of certain photos in John's on-line album as closely as possible to their printed reproductions in Tom's book 'NARROW GAUGE . . . then and now', which he co-authored with Nils Huxtable in 1993.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/2016 11:51AM by Russo Loco.
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> Viewing high quality modern digital images
> on anything but a high quality calibrated mon-
> itor may give you a view that does not repre-
> sent the true image.
Absolutely true, Dave -
Especially if you're going to be making prints for sale or doing other professional work. I'm doing neither, just flipping back and forth - on the same monitor and within a minute or two - between the two different sets of photos, so the differences I'm seeing aren't due to different calibrations but to the different styles of interpretation.
As John noted, I'm a former 35 mm Kodachrome shooter (beginning in 1958, switching to 6x7 cm Ecktachrome in 1975), and I tend to prefer the more traditional look as exemplified by my fellow senior curmudgeons - John himself, Tom Gildersleeve, et al. My initial response to Kevin's photos was the same as Greg's - they're wonderfully composed and very striking, but just a hair too intense for my old-fashioned taste. I wasn't going to comment about this at all until I read Greg's post, but at least now we have something to "discuss" other than the exact shade of dark olive green that is appropriate for brand-new K-37's circa 1928 and 1930 . . .
- Gramps
p.s. My monitor is a ViewSonic VP2655wb, driven by an AMD Radeon HD76600D. To the extent that it's calibrated, I try to match the appearance of certain photos in John's on-line album as closely as possible to their printed reproductions in Tom's book 'NARROW GAUGE . . . then and now', which he co-authored with Nils Huxtable in 1993.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/2016 11:51AM by Russo Loco.
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