New Monitors and Photography
Last fall, I got myself a new fancy 27", LED-lit, IPS, WQHD monitor. A really bright, color-accurate, calibrated beauty! Unfortunately, it allowed me to see some of the horrific post-processing choices I was making on my old, fluorescent-lit, TN LCD monitor that was best suited for coding and word processing. I had a feeling of "everything I've ever posted is crap" come over me and caused me to pause and take a timeout from posting on Flickr.
This is one of those shots I recently came across and felt compelled to give it a little better "treatment". There is nothing particularly special or interesting about this shot, other than it was taken from MSP tower, but seeing the old version spurred me to write this little blog post.
Nowadays, I try to keep my monitor calibrated using the x-rite i1 display profiler. That said, just because "it looks good on my monitor" doesn't mean I won't make more bad post-processing choices in the future. Everyone sees these photos through the "eyes" of a different monitor with different color temperature, depth and saturation, black levels, brightness, contrast, gamma, sharpness and resolution. And though the end result is most often subjective, at least now, I feel I have a good basis for what you're seeing.
New Monitors and Photography
Last fall, I got myself a new fancy 27", LED-lit, IPS, WQHD monitor. A really bright, color-accurate, calibrated beauty! Unfortunately, it allowed me to see some of the horrific post-processing choices I was making on my old, fluorescent-lit, TN LCD monitor that was best suited for coding and word processing. I had a feeling of "everything I've ever posted is crap" come over me and caused me to pause and take a timeout from posting on Flickr.
This is one of those shots I recently came across and felt compelled to give it a little better "treatment". There is nothing particularly special or interesting about this shot, other than it was taken from MSP tower, but seeing the old version spurred me to write this little blog post.
Nowadays, I try to keep my monitor calibrated using the x-rite i1 display profiler. That said, just because "it looks good on my monitor" doesn't mean I won't make more bad post-processing choices in the future. Everyone sees these photos through the "eyes" of a different monitor with different color temperature, depth and saturation, black levels, brightness, contrast, gamma, sharpness and resolution. And though the end result is most often subjective, at least now, I feel I have a good basis for what you're seeing.