Thanks, Stan and happy travels! All this does help. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Halpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:21 AM Subject: Re: GESO- Venice > Thanks Christine (and others who have commented.) > It is probably going to be a couple of weeks before I can comment on > how well the book comes out. I'll be out of town most of the coming > week, even if it comes by the time I get back home, I'll be too busy > sorting/packing for the following week's trip to Costa Rica. > > My "calibration" approach is quite crude. I have an iMac with nice > bright LCD monitor. I have an Epson printer that I seldom use, but my > wife needed something printed in color a few weeks ago so I put in > new cartridges and did not only her job but also printed a few of my > photos. I discovered (rediscovered) that images that look right on my > nice bright screen look too dark on paper. So I adjusted my monitor > to a lower intensity, increased exposure on the images (.66-1.0 > stops) to get them "bright enough" on the darker screen, and then was > able to get decent prints on the Epson. I used the same approach with > the images Blurb will be printing in the book. We'll see... For what > it is worth, when I look at the pdf preview of my book vs. previews > of others' books, the images on screen seem comparable, so I think I > will be at least fairly close. > > stan > > On May 30, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Stan: Ah, Venice: love, music, art, culture, romance, great food-- >> and >> laundry? ;-) Seriously, those photos are just lovely. Some favs >> are 2, 7, >> 10, 24, 27, 36, 41, 42. >> >> Stan, I'd be very interested in knowing your impressions of how the >> photos >> look in the book. Do you have the type of computer monitor that Mark >> Roberts was talking about--the fancy souped up ones: IPS or VA? >> >> Again, great collection. >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stan Halpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <PDML@pdml.net> >> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:17 PM >> Subject: GESO- Venice >> >> >>> Sunday I completed my first trial book on the Blurb site. Have no >>> clue how the images in the book will compare to what I was working on >>> at my computer; I'll find out late next week. Meanwhile, since I had >>> the Venice collection sorted and some selections made already, I just >>> uploaded a selection to Zenfolio. >>> >>> http://photos.stanhalpin.com/ and, obviously, select the Venice >>> folder. >>> >>> #61 is for Gianfranco, but also for Frank... >>> >>> stan >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
