Lemons in a Blue Glass Bowl No 7 by Roger Evans, on Flickr
Lemons in a Blue Glass Bowl No 7 by Roger Evans, on Flickr
Nice, Ken. Those images have a combination of rendering elements that create a nice balance.
Some more test stuff - for the records and my new printer
I'm not much of a pixel-peeper but here's a central 100% crop of a pretty straight RAW conversion in LR with careful multi-pass low-radius sharpening afterwards - about as far as I'd go before it starts looking artificial.
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That's about the maximum resolution I can get out of my X10 @ISO200 in L mode (wanna-be 12MP) and when focused at larger distances (there are slightly more details at ISO100). To me this looks pretty fine for a compact zoom camera, surprisingly non-digital but more like a scanned print; I guess that's one of the main aspects of that 'special X10 look', apart from the colors.
This one on my iPad Jr. tends to look like a not-so-good exposure from my first digital camera, the 1.5 mp Kodak DC260.
Like I've said, it's a 100% center crop of a (rather boring) test image. Here's a downsized 1400px image of the original RAW conversion I've taken it from.
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The exposure (WB, colors, contrast, tonal distribution, ...) looks absolutely OK to me on my calibrated Dell monitor, Dale. It's not the most crunchy image there is but pretty typical for a largely unprocessed RAW conversion from the X10 and close to what I remember (I pass the place every day). Taken out of its context and viewed at 100% the center crop might look a little flat, especially on some older low-res or laptop screens, but the original downsized image above should look just fine on any calibrated monitor.
Again ... the first image is a straight crop from the second image - I haven't changed anything, except for additional low-radius sharpening in the cropOh, now this one is waaaaaaay better than your first copy, and obviously much better than what I did. So now anyway you know how that first image is going to look to iPad users.
Again ... the first image is a straight crop from the second image - I haven't changed anything, except for additional low-radius sharpening in the crop
That's what calibrated monitors are there for in the first place - displaying the truest possible colors and values on a screen - think of a reference or norm - no need to look anywhere else if you want to play it safe. There's no such thing as an average xyz display since uncalibrated displays (laptops, tablets, smartphones, photo displays, ...) can be off by a mile and a half in all sorts of dimensions; but they're getting ever better.I understood that part - just wanted to note that I try to make my images as compatible as possible to average photo screens, rather than just calibrated screens. Or maybe I'm incorrect on that point as well - just looking for a more complete understanding, or an explanation that would preclude my wanting to try an unnecessary fix here.
That's what calibrated monitors are there for in the first place - displaying the truest possible colors and values on a screen - think of a reference or norm - no need to look anywhere else if you want to play it safe. There's no such thing as an average xyz display since uncalibrated displays (laptops, tablets, smartphones, photo displays, ...) can be off by a mile and a half in all sorts of dimensions; but they're getting ever better.