I always suspect there must be some difference between our monitors but this
can never be confirmed.
Besides monitor calibration, I also follow dpreview's grey bar to make sure
I can identify each grey block and having a deep black. At the mean time
most of the sample images in dpreview look ok to me.
C.H.Ling
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From: "Moose"
> C.H.Ling wrote:
>> With my calibrated EIZO monitor, your image just look very good, I don't
>> see any adjustment necessary.
>
> Two things. First, I know I'm sort of a fanatic about seeing the
> texture/detail that I know is in many undifferentiated highlight areas
> in images. I'm very aware of and interested in it in the natural world,
> and so want to see it in images so they will appear natural to me.
>
> Second, my Samsung monitor is hardware calibrated, too. Yet calibration,
> at least with the hardware/software tools I have, doesn't set an
> absolute brightness level. So we may be viewing at different levels of
> brightness, which makes a big difference in this image to me.
>
> So - taste and technology - who knows what the mix is here.
>
>> Always trying to preserve/enhance all (highlight/shadow) details makes
>> the images look un-natural.
>>
>
> Heartily agreed. That's one reason I've never seen much point in HDR
> except where different areas are to be treated differently.
>
> Moose
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