Originally posted by jfdavis58 I'm sorry if I offended. In actuality applaud your exuberant efforts to spread information; I even see the utility in simplifying that material to it's essential essence. And finally, personal experience carries considerable credibility and value.
But there are pitfalls. Chief among these is the personal experience where offsetting error actually produce good results. This has another name: luck. And luck is a fickle mistress.
I am keenly aware of my own personal deficiencies wrt physical attributes; I pay several doctors way too much money to remind me from time to time that I'm not young and strong and smart. I have come to depend on several mechanical devices instead of my raw senses: eyeglass, bathroom and kitchen scales, a wristwatch and for digital photography and matters of monitors and printers and color, Monaco EZColor w/Optrix. There is also a list of human experts and their written musing in web articles and magazine or books who I respect and believe.
As to POV wrt color management, you come from a low-tech approach and I prefer high-tech.
But it doesn't add to the knowledge base, it doesn't help anyone if our sharing with them is less than factual.
One must have consistent and controlled lighting to accurately judge photographs. Optimally one would judge in the final viewing light, but alternatively, matching monitor to it's immediate surroundings and working to a standard, statistically provides the highest accuracy across the largest spectrum of light variation.
As to monitor sync rates, if one chooses to follow web 'advice' over the warnings in the video card/monitor/PC manuals-the equipment is ones own to damage or destroy.
As to profiles, failing to follow written instructions, whatever the reason for avoiding the actual reading---well, the output will be it's own reward.
JF: no offense taken what's so ever. I do appreciate the help in trying to explain things...... I could have gone into way more detail, but at the risk of loosing 95% of the people.
what I would like to do, if time permits, have mini tutorials, and have them all eventually make sense as a whole.
I don't know everything that is for sure
what I do know has taken me years..... only because when I make a computer related purchase, I research it to know end, as I am looking for the best deals, etc and from there I go off in tangents, leading me to things like color management, etc. besides, most of my research comes from the internet, which people are well aware is full of information that is both accurate and inaccurate, and usually a bit bias.
I do hope that someone learns even a little bit of knowledge from what is posted here, and that in turn will hopefully make their digital photography just a little bit more pleasurable.
After all, that is why we are all here on the forums
If anyone would like to add to what I say or correct me (trying to keep it in laymen's terms) I welcome that
thanks
cheers
randy