Posted by Barry Southon on September 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM
I have been very fortunate during the last three months in having plenty of time to explore the Macro world. Having seen terrific examples produced on this forum I felt inspired to go and seek for myself.
I'm somewhat embarrassed that I have posted three images in four days but I wanted to share the excitement as I'm now pleased with my results.
This one I even added a close up filter to the 180mm lens it may well be too busy and on the dark side for some but nevertheless I'd like your views. It's also a little different to the norm.
I can empathise with your excitement doing macro photography. I do find this a little dark for my liking but well done for trying something different.
Posted by jack chapman on September 11, 2010 at 7:24 AM
great light and really like the dew drops. agree that this is perhaps a little dark, i find the left dragonflies wings in the foreground a little distracting too but not sure how you could have changed that
Posted by Craig Jones on September 11, 2010 at 10:45 AM
A tad dark but very different and the better for it Barry
Posted by Barry Southon on September 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Thank you for the comments the darkness and what's in the darkness is probably the subject on reflection just trying to be different I guess.
I do also have a question I'm struggling with printing at the moment the printed results are all much darker than my screened image. Probably something in the settings that I have missed. Any pointers would be very helpful.
I always had this problem before I bought a calibrator. I find it much better now but you will always find the image on the monitor brighter than that on paper as on the monitor the image is backlit. You basically need to make the image lighter (than you would for posting on the web) if you intend printing the image. Hope that helps.
I print a lot of my images rather than have them sit on my hard drive. Maggie is right in that your monitor is backlit and the image viewed will almost certainly differ from your print unless you make alterations to the output.
The use of the levels output slider by moving it to the right to give a factor of between 10 and 20 has produced very good results for me but it is trial and error until you feel happier with it.
I normally make a test print first on say 7x5 or even smaller. Most of my prints are on a specific A3 gloss paper and generally gives me the results I want.
I hope this helps.
Shaun
Posted by Andy Astbury on September 12, 2010 at 3:53 AM
If your prints don't match your monitor output then you are either running the wrong icc paper profile, or your monitor calibration is off - or both.
Printing images that match your screen is either as easy or as difficult as one cares to make it - but there are NO short cuts to a colour managed work flow - there truly is only one way to skin this particular cat, and sadly Barrie it cost money, care and a small amount of extra effort.
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7 repliesI'm somewhat embarrassed that I have posted three images in four days but I wanted to share the excitement as I'm now pleased with my results.
This one I even added a close up filter to the 180mm lens it may well be too busy and on the dark side for some but nevertheless I'd like your views. It's also a little different to the norm.
Critique, Advice and comments most welcome.
Canon 1D3 tripod 180mm f/10 ISO400 1/640sec
Thanks for looking.
I do also have a question I'm struggling with printing at the moment the printed results are all much darker than my screened image. Probably something in the settings that I have missed. Any pointers would be very helpful.
I always had this problem before I bought a calibrator. I find it much better now but you will always find the image on the monitor brighter than that on paper as on the monitor the image is backlit. You basically need to make the image lighter (than you would for posting on the web) if you intend printing the image. Hope that helps.
I print a lot of my images rather than have them sit on my hard drive. Maggie is right in that your monitor is backlit and the image viewed will almost certainly differ from your print unless you make alterations to the output.
The use of the levels output slider by moving it to the right to give a factor of between 10 and 20 has produced very good results for me but it is trial and error until you feel happier with it.
I normally make a test print first on say 7x5 or even smaller. Most of my prints are on a specific A3 gloss paper and generally gives me the results I want.
I hope this helps.
Shaun
Printing images that match your screen is either as easy or as difficult as one cares to make it - but there are NO short cuts to a colour managed work flow - there truly is only one way to skin this particular cat, and sadly Barrie it cost money, care and a small amount of extra effort.