Originally Posted by
Lon Howard
Hi. Life has taken me away from photography for about five years so am way behind the curve right now, but here's an issue I'm revisiting. Haven't calibrated my monitor for all this time and discovered that my camera club's projector made my digital submissions look dark, so when downsizing my 'final' tweak, I would pump up the brightness in the process to make up for that.
It seemed to work, but not consistently from month to month; lately I found that I've over-brightened and gotten washed out images when they were presented.
A few weeks ago I sprung for Color Munki Display - very easy to use - my existing files looked a bit strange but I ignored that because I'm more into the future, not the past.
Anyway, after practicing with the Color Munki, I somehow (can't explain why) got the impression that the calibration had reduced the need for brightening so I did only half of what I had been doing. The result was that they were STILL too bright.
So, I'm wondering if it's possible that calibrating my monitor has almost - if not entirely - eliminated the need for tweaking brightness (one way or the other) on my images before submitting them for display on a projector?
Thanks!