Interesting. Now I have got both of my monitors calibrated using Dispcal they look a bit darker. I suspect that I was previously running them too bright and this might explain why prints of my photos appeared to be darker than the same images on the screen. I suspect that for everyone else all my edited pictures were actually darker than they should have been .

So from my direction this has been a really useful thread.

Glyn

I'm still on Win XP but Dispcal & Argyll seems to have worked fine although with 2 identical monitors you appear to have to force the profile name of at least one of the monitors otherwise they overwrite each other.

Many thanks,

Glyn

Brilliant, many thanks, I'll give that a go. Its driving me mad having two monitors that are slightly different .

Glyn

I have said yes but that is not 100% correct.

I have 2 identical 1920x1080 24 inch monitors on my PC (recently upgraded for HDTV & blu-ray) but my Huey calibrator only seems to work on the primary screen

Glyn

I'm in .

Better conditions today.

But just for fun here is yesterday's best attempt in the early morning mist:

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Glyn

Farnborough Landscape

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A Panoramic view of Farnborough Airport.

K-7 with DA55-300 @ 77.5mm
F4.5, 1/800sec, ISO 100 & -0.3ev.

Taken at 7.58am 21st April 2010.


I'm having trouble finding somewhere to post the full sized version. The best I can do is to put it up in the gallery here.

Glyn

You will have to wait and see

I think though you are quite correct in that its not an easy place to find an industrial landscape and I'm sure I'm probably pushing my luck .

I also learnt today that finding an industrial landscape is only half the problem. You also need to find it in the best weather and lighting conditions. I always used to think that the best landscapes were obtained at dawn or dusk but having got up at 5:30 this morning and cycled over into Hampshire I found that this is not always true .

Glyn

I went out very early today for my first attempt at this subject but unfortunately I think it was too misty. Hopefully I'll have time for another attempt but I will bank the best result from this morning just in case I can't do any better.

I did though get a nice shot of the sun coming up which you can see here

Glyn

I had forgotten about airbrushing, I had been thinking about a pair of scissors or a razor blade and it was making me cringe

Glyn

Before I went out to shoot an entry for this competition I had a look at the "Dig For Victory" poster here.

Is it my imagination but could this be a one-legged man, or perhaps he has his boots on the wrong feet .

Glyn