My Darkness entry, a mediocre effort which was rightly spanked in the voting, attracted several comments from people who apparently couldn't see the subject. I don't mean they didn't "get" it, I mean it was not visible to them. Which makes me suspect that my monitor, or theirs, may be a bit out of whack. I'd appreciate anyone interested taking a look & posting a reply to say if you can see it or not (and also any relevant advice about monitors). For the record, the subject was not the knife, it was the partial face including an eye with a small catchlight, in the background. Do you see the face, or just the knife? Thanks.
Wow, nice shot. I could see it fine. I can even see the face in the thumbnail. I was going to submit a similar shot, with the exact same title.
Edit: I'm using a Dell monitor at school. I'll check it out again when I get home. I'm very curious as to how different peoples monitors are. Before I submit anything I make sure it looks good on three or more monitors.
I can see the face fine in the full-size shot, very nice. But can only see the knife in the thumbnail with just the slightest hint of face. I generally make things lighter than I want for challenges, as I figure most people's screens are too dark.
Just a knife and a mysterious white speck.
Monitor at work.
Would never vote using this monitor as the last 5 squares on the grey scale are all black.
Still, must be an awfully dark image here.
My Darkness entry, a mediocre effort which was rightly spanked in the voting, attracted several comments from people who apparently couldn't see the subject. I don't mean they didn't "get" it, I mean it was not visible to them. Which makes me suspect that my monitor, or theirs, may be a bit out of whack. I'd appreciate anyone interested taking a look & posting a reply to say if you can see it or not (and also any relevant advice about monitors). For the record, the subject was not the knife, it was the partial face including an eye with a small catchlight, in the background. Do you see the face, or just the knife? Thanks.
I had the same problem. I think I left a comment on yours during the challenge that I could see the face. I ended up with 36 ones from people who could not see the image on mine.
Place: 200 out of 364
Avg (all users): 4.902
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Avg (no camera): 7.333
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Well you certainly hit the bell curve with this one. Nicely done photo I might add.
As for the face, I see it without any trouble at all. It's a shame, but I think monitor calibration (or lack thereof) needs to be a considering factor when submitting for challenges here. If you think it's going to be a bit dark then it will be too dark for many. I'm learning this the hard way myself with one of the current challenges...
Ooooops..posted comment + processed image revealing face behind the blade to the image comments rather than to this thread. Sorry! Here's the image again......
Posted by Bandit:
"I had the same problem. I think I left a comment on yours during the challenge that I could see the face. I ended up with 36 ones from people who could not see the image on mine."
Well, this IS interesting. You will see that in my comment during voting on your image, I remarked that you had captured detail in all parts of the image. So my monitor saw your image just fine, & vice-versa. I guess we both learned a lesson about other people's monitors?
Ooooops..posted comment + processed image revealing face behind the blade to the image comments rather than to this thread. Sorry! Here's the image again......
when i voted and commented i could see it fine, now i have calibrated my computer, ( last weekend ) i no w see it the same as others, quite dark...( and in saying that, i have had to go through my own images to lighten them up.... ) ........ IMHO.. i thought it would ribbon... it is a fantastic shot and great imagination.. well done....
I think the pic is just too dark - in PS to get ANYTHING related to the face i have to use levels and move the midpont to 1.34. That is a large adjustment.
When i use the Info to check the values I get mostly 11-19, lots of 0 readings and once i hit 20. That puts the face in the bottom 8% of the available spectrum.
