Originally posted by jabobby @Erictator, To me Eric the colors look superb, but the focus only appears good, not excellent. I down loaded that last shot you posted, then zoomed in to pixel pick and the focus lacks a bit in my opinion. Noticed you shot that @ f 5.0, I think that f 6.3 would have been better, and of course f 8.0 would provide even better depth of field, and the shutter speed does well @ 1/500 or slightly higher so you could drop down from the 1/1250. Of course all this is just my old opinion and what has worked for me. The monitor I am viewing this on is a relatively new Dell U2412M which I color calibrated with a datacolor spyder 5 express. But like I said, your colors look great. Hope this helps, I am going to look back at some of your earlier post for comparison and might comment again later.
Best Regards, Bob
Thanks Bob!
In hind sight, mentioning focus was probably a misnomer, as the only real effect on output that anyone else would notice is that I
might get choosier about what I share (as in, posting a whole lot less now that I can see the focus errors), since the monitor doesn't take the pictures and by the time I am viewing them it's too late, heh heh.
I have tried in the past for a little more DOF with flutterby's at the expense of shutter speed, and I found the motion blur to much more objectionable to my eyes than the shallow focus. The real answer here for moving targets might be a little flash, though I usually avoid unnatural light when I can.
The real difference in output is probably the colors and brightness, shadow levels, etc. Before, I would see banding, like in the reds and wasn't sure if it was in the RAW or my display just couldn't handle the full gamut. It made it especially difficult to judge what I was posting. With the new display's 1.07billion color depth, the banding is gone and I get a lot better feel for what I'm turning loose.
The big thing I didn't realize how bad my old FTN panel was until I ran it side by side with the new IPS display. I was planning to run the old display as a second monitor just to run the news or weather channel on in the background occasionally, as just an entertainment screen to not interfere with my work screen, but OMG, YUCK! It is so dim and blotchy I have no idea how I processed photo's on it before! The fluorescent back lights must be nearing end of life, because they also flicker randomly as well as being dim. My headache's and eye strain are much improved now.
Thanks again,
Eric
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Originally posted by Rupert Your colors look great to me!
I use a 24" Asus Color Perfect monitor. Colors are indeed perfect.
Male Cardinals come in a wide range of reds...from deep dark red to an orange tint, and several shades in between. The K1 Does great reds and can get all the different shades just right.
From this afternoon...a "medium low red" Cardinal.
"Medium dark red"
"Dark red"
You need a good monitor to benefit from the K1's great color rendering. It was wise of you to spend some cash on a good monitor!
Regards!
Thanks Rupert! Your Cardy's red's are spot on from over here. Nice work.
Eric
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Originally posted by johnc Overall I really like your colours in these shots. Monitors and screens vary so much you cannot control how your image appears on every device that a viewer might use, but the aim of using a quality monitor and monitor calibration will make sure you present something that will suit a range of target devices. I think it is useful to switch to other (finished, reference) images with different colours and switch back, return to an image after a rest etc as well, since the eye gets de-sensitised to the same image colours after a while.
John
Thanks John! So true. I do try to take in some reference images occasionally for a sanity check. Heh.
Eric