Hello, This morning I spent a bit of time trying to adjust a set of my old pictures. Fixing colours instead of ditching them and scheduling yet another run. Upon checking the results on the other location (monitor), I was shocked. Fortunately I had a backup. I'd love some input - from colours-brightness point of view, which of these seem best to you? I ran into the same issue back around 2002 when I was scanning a lot of stuff, only to find them washed out years later. My CRT was quite dark and I compensated. My hunch is that I should trust my TV, although these specifically look terrible on the monitor. The latter uses YCbCr444 instead of RGB, so. 1a - Original 1b - Perfect on TV version 1c - Perfect on monitor version 2b - Perfect on TV version 2c - Perfect on monitor version Thank you!
Falmouth Branch, The Maritime Line - Overcast Summer Day I don't know the time but judging by the shadows on the first pic I would assume about 2 hours from noon. It's more about what looks pleasant. For example you didn't say right away that darks on the brightest are silly. The lower half of the boiler - where the name board is - looks pretty much broken and the tender wheels also almost glow. Their histogram is still below what actual photographers share, these are of similar weathers: I also hope you enjoy some of these as a means of thanks
On my monitor the monitor versions have the best shadows, but the TV versions have the best ambient light. Overall, I prefer the TV versions.
Assuming you asked me The originals are just the flat original settings, might be a bit brighter now. I also run with +2 ambient +1 sunlight these days. The brighter versions use 2.0 gamma, 24 contrast and 96 saturation while the darker ones 1.5, 12 and 64. This is how 3D Cloudy looks like at 8am in-game today. With the +2+1.
1c and 2c are my picks for the best out of both batches. They look closest to what my human eye would see in real life under those conditions I reckon. 1a is probably more accurate to how a mirrorless camera I tend to use would capture a gloomy day shot under those conditions with no post-processing.
I agree with WhippleStripper, though I'd point out it doesn't really matter what I think. It's what you like the most that matters.
Agreed. On my system's IPS panels this one looks the most natural. Matches up pretty well to how I've modded TSW's lighting to look.
