Monkey see by Canon DSLR Challenge

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24-NOV-2006	Najinsky

Monkey see

Jersey, C.I.

A small leap into the dark here. Decided to simplify by seeing how much detail and colour I could remove while still retaining the bare essence of the original.

Canon EOS 20D ,Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super II
1/50s f/4.5 at 149.0mm iso3200 hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	24-Nov-2006 19:24:28
Make	Canon
Model	Canon EOS 20D
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	149 mm
Exposure Time	1/50 sec
Aperture	f/4.5
ISO Equivalent	3200
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Mode	average (1)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program	aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Nov-2006 12:39
Olaf, thanks for the thought, however I am definately using sRGB on the images in question; it was one of the first things I checked. Regards, -Naj

Guest		29-Nov-2006 10:49
Naj, you're on a Mac at home and a Windoze-box at work, right? Using Safari at home, right? I am almost certain that your problem with saturated/bland colors stems from the photo in question is in the AdobeRGB color space. See, unlike most other browsers, Safari is color profile aware, so it shows your photo 'correctly', even if the photo is not in the internet standard sRGB color space... Make sure your photos are in sRGB color space before posting to the web. In PhotoshopCS (and earlier), choose Image>Mode>Convert to profile... to convert your AdobeRGB images to sRGB.

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Nov-2006 10:03
Yeah I can understand with the blacks, but the images I removed were natural light portraits. On my monitor the colours were rich and warm but on the work monitors they were washed out and lifeless. I'm going to start experimenting to see if I can find the cause. As I say some of the other peoples entries look rich and warm on my screen AND on the work monitors, so I'm interested in why theirs still look good while mine don't (other than the obvious!). Regarding the line, its an occasional bug in the processing software which I didn't notice when posting the image. You can see some alternative versions of the orang-utan here: http://homepage.mac.com/miller.a/Simplicity/ ...and some more dramatic occurrences of the bug here: http://homepage.mac.com/miller.a/ApertureBug/

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Nov-2006 01:11
I think the variability from one monitor to the next is most pronounced at the dark end. Such is the nature of the gamma curve. Your picture is very dark. Thus, I'd expect it to look very different from one uncalibrated monitor to the next. My main problem at work is the vast amounts of fluorescent lighting, and a screen that's not shaded and is not sufficiently anti-glare coated. This really frustrates me at work, because I'm actually fairly picky about blacks -- probably over half the monitors for sale at a computer store would be rejected by me for that reason alone. -- Victor P.S. I just noticed something. What's the horizontal line going across the middle of the picture? It looks like a photo of a centerfold (the line being the fold). Incidentally, that might be another good spot to crop.

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Nov-2006 00:40
Interesting. I withdrew my other images based on how they looked on some colleagues screens at work today. Not all, but many peoples images looked just as good on the work screens, as they do on my screen. But mine looked to have half the contrast. I am beginning to wonder if it is the way I process them, yet for this image it sounds like you may be seeing it how I do (it is a baby orangutan). -Naj

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Nov-2006 00:28
Now it looks like an orangutan. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		28-Nov-2006 23:49
Interesting. By the way, on my work computer, it looks like a chimp, but I can't really make it out well enough to be certain. I'll check again at home. This appears oddly similar to a picture I never got around to shooting for this challenge. -- Victor