Even in our garden this fungus is strange.

[JBW]

[Kodiak]

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Right… somehow, anything in Nature that is blue looks a little strange.
Blue fungus? …first time I see that! Thanks.

I would suggest to crop the bottom third where the info is OoF.

[csa mt]

Hmm, on my screen the fungus looks more black.

[ajohnw]

Hmm, on my screen the fungus looks more black.

Looks blue to me Carol but is dark. Have you calibrated your screen? Make and model of screen can come into it as well.

John
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[DanK]

Clearly blue on mine, which is calibrated.

[csa mt]

Looks blue to me Carol but is dark. Have you calibrated your screen? Make and model of screen can come into it as well.

John
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I have an AOC 2436V. I'll see what I can do to calibrate it; never done it before.

[Wayland]

Reads as hue 230 or thereabouts.

Definitely bluish and about 30 - 40% black so should be pretty dark.

That fits with the look on my monitor which is also calibrated.

Looks like lichen to me though.

[ajohnw]

I have an AOC 2436V. I'll see what I can do to calibrate it; never done it before.

This might help you but I can't help on getting the controls to work. Often it's a case of pressing one for some time to get them to work. One usually does that and the others are like cursor keys. You probably need to leave the contrast at the default setting but adjust the brightness so that you can see as many of the black and white steps shown here. The gamma test may also work out ok then too

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tu...alibration.htm

From what I can find you are using a very simple monitor so it's important that you look at it dead square on. The colours will change if you move your head from side to side or up and down. I did calibrate a monitor like that once and it made a lot of difference but I found the square on aspect difficult to cope with when editing. It really did make a difference too. I was gob smacked that one of the images that I had prepared previously won a competition on here. It was way way over sharpened.

What to do. I generally don't spend any more than I need to. For a calibrator I use a ColorMunki Display. They do their job. It's possible to spend more but to get a lot better really does mean spending a lot lot more.

When I changed monitor I picked out a ViewSonic with an 8 bit IPS panel from this site

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/

ViewSonic often produce a display with a good panel but a calibrator is really needed to go with them. The site does give information on how good monitors are as supplied. They also give contrast and brightness setting that are suitable which is actually rather important. One of these could also be simply tweaked up by checking them on the black and white bars in the tutorial. The settings tftcentral give will probably pass that anyway which is a very good start in the right direction.

I then went for a larger display and bought a Dell UltraSharp. These come pre calibrated. Not as well as they can be but in real terms fairly adequately. They are set way too bright as they come but the contrast and brightness settings can be used to correct that. With these calibration isn't so important. I ran mine as supplied for a while out of curiosity.

John
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[csa mt]

"From what I can find you are using a very simple monitor so it's important that you look at it dead square on."

John, yes it's a very simple monitor, but was all I could afford, and it has served me well. I now have it so that the fungus appears to be a very dark blue. Another thing to take into consideration is the person's eyes; are they seeing the colors correctly?

I'm not computer savy enough to start messing around calibrating the monitor, and possibly messing up the settings. I'm really a chicken when it comes to messing with the computer or monitor! For my leasure pleasure, I'll accept it as it is, as I also have a very simple, inexpensive camera; so I don't expect to reach the realm of what is shown here.

[bnnrcn]

The fungus is strange but your image is very nice Brian. I agree with Kodiak about the crop

[JBW]

Reads as hue 230 or thereabouts.

Definitely bluish and about 30 - 40% black so should be pretty dark.

That fits with the look on my monitor which is also calibrated.






Looks like lichen to me though.

I did add a touch of black. It could well be lichen. I am even less of a scientist than I am a photographer.