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[FUJI]

Right!

 

Here we go again with my Kenilworth Castle shoot of yesterday.

 

Like most life-time locals I take little notice of the local landmark....because.....it's there.........but yesterday it looked special.

 

As you can see, the light was perfect, striking in a left to right sweep that emphasised the form and texture of my neighbouring Ancient Monument.

 

Yes, you saw one of the shots, but, this evening I completely recalibrated my monitor, and re-set to SRGB.....Until I see this on TIPF I wont know whether I have improved the look after my dissapointment with yesterday's posts.

 

I realise that a couple of you OK'd them, but compared to what I saw on my monitor prior to posing they looked dirty and dumbed down......so here goes!

 

Finger's crossed ;-)

 

 

Best viewed LARGE.....click on Pics:

 

 

FUJI

 

P.S.  Sadly, they have gone grungy again after posting....this is SO difficult to explain without you seeing what I see....they have lost saturation and vibrance............Grrrrrrr!

[NannyFerret]

I am viewing these on my net-book.

There is more saturation in the top one, but I actually prefer the bottom one which is slightly lower in saturation.
The colours look good on both though.

[ChrisLumix]

Yesterday's (identical!) shots were better, I think. To my eyes the top version has way too much contrast .. though it may be near to how it looked on the day itself? I can only judge on the pictures, and as I say, I prefer yesterday's.

[FUJI]

Thank you for the feedback...

I must admit to being disappointed and genuinely puzzled by what has happened here.......on my desktop monitor, the one on which I do all my processing the colours are as they should be.

Kenilworth Castle is unique because it was built from rich red sand stone quarried less than half a mile away, the same red as good builder's sand........in certain light ( like Sunday) the sun hit areas literally glow with an amazing golden redness, the castle has been often compared to Ayers Rock in Australia fir this feature.

Looking at the obviously beautifully lit Castle in this post the sand stone is strongly lit, but has a dull yellow ochre hue.

Something is wrong......it isn't my eyes, the problem lies somewhere in my monitor settings.....yesterday, I returned everything to SRGB the Internet standard after trying SRGB Pro...... I use free CALIBREEZE software to calibrate my monitor.....

It begins by requesting a high contrast setting with circles that adjust, then Red-Green-Blue swatches containing circles with black horizontal lines, these can be individually tuned until they almost merge in tone......the chosen settings are then saved.

To demonstrate exactly what I mean. About the obvious lack of colour and natural vibrancy I will post a link to an English Heritage web site with official pics.

Any suggestions, theories or advice very welcome.

Please look at this..

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

I've not had time to watch much more than a couple of minutes of that video. However, I saw enough to see that the colours in it are comparatively flat (compared to yours), and not exactly saturated. I can see from Dan Snow's skin tones that the video is pretty natural in terms of colour. 

 

Your pictures - ALL of them - show more vibrancy and saturation.

 

I really don't understand what you're seeing.

[JohnP]

In a few words all I can say is the first shot is over saturated and the second looks fine to me.

[Korky]

Fooj - I'm not very technical, so can't offer any advice except to say that quite often I have similar problems when uploading to the board.

 

I find that I can get an image looking pretty much as it should be on my monitor or laptop, but when I post the photo to TIPF it can look far darker than it should. These days I tend not to use Photobucket or Flickr as it seemed worse when I used them.

 

Re the two images you've posted in this thread... Number 1 seems far too contrasty and just wrong - Number 2 is somewhere near, but I've done a 3 minute edit and this looks pretty accurate on my laptop.

 

Korky

 

[FUJI]

Fooj - I'm not very technical, so can't offer any advice except to say that quite often I have similar problems when uploading to the board.

 

I find that I can get an image looking pretty much as it should be on my monitor or laptop, but when I post the photo to TIPF it can look far darker than it should. These days I tend not to use Photobucket or Flickr as it seemed worse when I used them.

 

Re the two images you've posted in this thread... Number 1 seems far too contrasty and just wrong - Number 2 is somewhere near, but I've done a 3 minute edit and this looks pretty accurate on my laptop.

 

Korky

 

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Thank you for all your comments and to Korky for the edit.

First off, the high contrast..........the sky and clouds were pretty spectacular, almost blowing up a storm, the sunlight was very directional and very bright, the shadows were deep and the sandstone was its usual glowing red, in fact the red of the girl's coat positively glowed ..........thus was what made me process then post both pics.......in the posts and the edit, that coat is dulled right down as are the sandstone walls.

Korky's edit improves things to some extent but I'm still disappointed.......somewhere in my files I have other castle shots. I think you can tell that thus is really bugging me.....

This shot (in theory) should give a better idea of the colour of the sunlit sandstone, almost unique to Kenilworth.....finger's crossed.

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

Of all the pictures you've posted on this theme Fuji, that last one is my favourite by a long way : you can see all the texture of the brickwork, and the colour - though rich - looks totally natural.

[FUJI]

Of all the pictures you've posted on this theme Fuji, that last one is my favourite by a long way : you can see all the texture of the brickwork, and the colour - though rich - looks totally natural.

EXACTLY Chris....

This is what I am trying to demonstrate.......those are the colours of the original RAW files, the processed PSD and of the JPEGS above, until posted on here...

Still flummoxed :-(

FUJI

[colinb]

Kenilworth Castle is about 1hr.45 mins from my home .... late spring 2015 meet up anyone?

[FUJI]

Kenilworth Castle is about 1hr.45 mins from my home .... late spring 2015 meet up anyone?

Just let me know nearer the time, if you intend to venture this way.

FUJI

[kev7d]

Kenilworth Castle is about 1hr.45 mins from my home .... late spring 2015 meet up anyone?

I think I would be up for it.

[FUJI]

Yes!

 

It's me again....

 

I have tried an experiment this morning.......I have emailed myself (and three TIPF members) attached JPEGS from my original PS Bridge Folder, exactly the same as posted to this thread.

 

When the attached files are opened from an email, they are naturally bright with the stones and sky looking as they do when opened directly on my monitor.......something has definitely gone wrong during transfer to TIPF.

 

Open them side by side on a monitor and the difference is strikingly obvious..........I am hoping that one of my emailed friends will be able to shed light on it.....if anyone else wants to see just PM me your email address.

 

I have double checke my monitor settings:

 

Still mystified.

 

Cheers!

 

FUJI