Cross the line !

tx for critiques and comments. I am always looking for sugestions

(i.e.) on how to get wath i call "dark photos" or "low light photos"

appreciated on a majority of moninitors "differently calibrated".

Cause I can never get good grades on low light photos here on PN.

tx for your help.

Hi Martin,

The way I set my monitor is this:-

First I set the monitor brightness /contrast etc by working through the windows set up wizard. I then set an image I have shot as the wallpaper.

As a check I then make a print of the same image and compare the brightness /contrast/colour temperature with that on the monitor.(obviously if you have problems with your printer colours this will not work)make any small adjustments, hopefully you should now be veiwing exactly what your camera sees. If others viewing your images have their monitors set differently (too bright /too dark)they will not see what you see and there is nothing you can do about that!

I would say that the overall exposure of this image on my monitor is ok considering the sky to background ratio.The detail lost on the body of the animal can be dodged in on PS.

Regards

Tony.

P.S I assume you have your monitor colour reference point set to the same as that you shoot in ie sRGB or Adobe etc.