Walk along the Angus coast

A few images from a walk around the Angus coast at St Cyrus and Scurdie Ness lighthouse with K5IIs, DA 55-300 and Sigma 8-16, all PEF's converted in Lightroom, no PP

2/3 for me well done

The house is the pick for me

They do generally look a bit dull and flat. As you say there is no PP. I think generally they'd benefit from being brightened up a bit and contrast increased

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciated

Alan,

Thanks for your observation re dull and flat images, on my home screen they look ok but I've increasingly noticed that on other screens my images do look a bit flat/dark so I'm thinking I may need to change my screen calibration hardware or is there something fundemental I'm not seeing.

When I'm developing/editing images I work in a darkened room (door closed and lights off) and I'm begining to wonder if this affects how I see the images on my screen, I also wonder if my Huey Pro (must be 8 years old now) is not as good as some of the other screen calibration tools available for my fairly Dell IPS monitor (can't remember the model #).

I would be interested in hearing some thoughts on editing enviroments from you ladies and gents.

I haven't calibrated with software Brian.

What I have done is print something off and then adjust the screen so it looks like the print.

I downloaded a calibration image from DSCL
http://www.dscolourlabs.co.uk/images/calibration_image.jpg

printed it off.
adjusted my screen so it was similar to the print, and that was me done.

Far from pefect, but it seems to work for me.

I like these

I do find that processing in a dark room always leads to underexposed sometimes poor contrast images when I have done it

I try to use a room with decent light and that works better for me

Great set of photos. Picture 4 really stands out, very atmospheric and superb scenery.

I Remember Scurdie Ness very well. Montrose harbour can be a scary place to enter in anything except good weather, think Scary Ness lighthouse would be a more acrurate name for it. Nice set of images.

Did you calibrate your monitor in the same conditions as you work i.e. darkened room (door closed and lights off)? If not, that will affect the settings.

These are nice compositions, Brian. However, in addition to the brightness boost suggested, there is a slight green bias (see the RGB values for the "white" clouds) that I would want to correct if they were mine. For example -




Philip