Since parts of the image field in my shots this week were in low light, I ran into a recurring problems that continues to nag me. The monitor I work on at home has much better contrast depth then some. It’s not crazy good, since I’m a cheap SOB when it comes to buying things most of the time, but the variability makes a huge difference.
I try to check images after making the brightness, contrast and color level adjustments on an alternate monitor and laptop before posting. But that’s not always possible and it still means I find out that something I like is too muddy very late in the process. That’s the frustrating part.
I’ll probably just learn to compensate after doing this enough times. But I’m still curious to hear whether or not other people have the same problem and what, if anything, they do to work around it.
For what it’s worth, here a couple of images from the shots I took yesterday which looked good to me on my primary system, but which look very muddy (and unusable) on my laptop at work.
Shark’s teeth
More Shark teeth
Pot shard
