I took the advice and recalibrated my monitor, the contrast and brightness levels, went back to the Dreams and Nightmares challenge and looked again.
WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MADE! Some of my 3's and 4's got bumped up to 8's and might possibly make 9's before I'm done! I had no idea my monitor was set so dark!
hopefully more people will go out there and do what you did
I hope so...my score is desperately counting on it!! lol
I can definately tell by the difference in comments I have received on my dreams and nightmares submission that there is a big difference in how it is viewed on different monitors.
I took the advice and recalibrated my monitor, the contrast and brightness levels, went back to the Dreams and Nightmares challenge and looked again.
Deannda
By which method of recalibrating are you speaking of to recalibrating your monitor.
I hope I didn't make the wrong choice....I'll check it out after voting, but I made my decision on the Nightmare challenge based on what my shot looked like on my work computer....after this thread I maybe shoulda tried to calibrate that moniter....
I am battling the calibration thing really badly :(
I found a greyscale strip someone pointed me to and even on the highest settings I couldn't get eother of my monitors to see all the bands.
I am finding it frustrating, as if I can't see what I am producing I can assume that MOST people do not see anything like I produce.
However, I have found a solution .....
Next challenge that has a lot of black in it I am going to invite everyone over to my place, coffee and cookies provided, and they can vote using my monitor.
It shouldn't be a hard journey for anyone, I am only 30 mins from Brisnbane (Australia) airport :)
Next challenge that has a lot of black in it I am going to invite everyone over to my place, coffee and cookies provided, and they can vote using my monitor.
It shouldn't be a hard journey for anyone, I am only 30 mins from Brisnbane (Australia) airport :)
I took the advice and recalibrated my monitor, the contrast and brightness levels, went back to the Dreams and Nightmares challenge and looked again.
Deannda
By which method of recalibrating are you speaking of to recalibrating your monitor.
The gray strip on the bottom was not really defined for me and in another thread they linked to an even better gray strip. I have a Gateway LE500 monitor and pressed my little buttons on the front and played with the contrast and brightness until I could see all the bars. It has made a HUGE difference in a lot of the photos and my scoring as a result! My monitor's brightness was set really low, I had no idea it was so dark!
I have a Samsung monitor, 17". It's a 750, or 705 or something, I can't tell any more as I turned them both black *laugh* (Very easy to do it and look like black originals, if anyone is interested drop me a message).
Even with brightness at 100% and then stuffing around with contrast, neither monitor can get to the point of seeing all the bars in the white-black strip.
May well just be bad monitors. Bad monitors, bad!!!! *spank*
