Trying to Share

I’ve been delinquent in posting recent samples from both food photography and architectural photography assignments to my blog. I’m attempting to remedy my lack of sharing this morning in an effort to start off 2010 on a good foot.

October and November of last year were the busiest I’ve experienced ever. I was fortunate, particularly in light of what so many others are experiencing in the current state of our economy. I spent most of December playing catch up with business matters and other marketing efforts.

Enough of my excuses, how about I show some work.

Stand by … see following posts.

- Kyle

Color Callibrating a Mediocre Monitor

Well, I’ve grown a bit spoiled in my use of good monitors/displays.

I recently put a less-than-great-monitor on a second machine and could not believe the awful quality of imagery I was seeing. There was no way I could edit any photography with this monitor. It’d be like looking through a green gel at everything.

I made a noble attempt to correct the issue with the display controls but I was honestly shooting in the dark. I’m no engineer. I don’t know the precise physics of light and color and LCDs.

Today I am much happier as I pulled out the Datacolor Spyer 3 which has been my consistent tool of good measure for my high-dollar monitors. Amazingly, in a few minutes I was able to follow the onscreen instructions and get this tired monitor into a decent state of being.

Now, I still don’t trust this display to do my photo editing and color correcting but at least I’m not seeing green all the time now.

So, hats off once again to a useful little tool which has been well worth the price. Now I wonder how awful other people’s displays are … does my work look green to you?

-Kyle