> I've returned from Borneo and have done an initial trawl of my images
> and put them online here:
>
> www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/
>

> I've returned from Borneo and have done an initial trawl of my images
> and put them online here:
>
> www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/
>
> I might need to spend a bit of time on some photos to remove a bit of
> noise but, overall, I'm fairly happy with the results.
>
> In terms of camera equipment, you'll probably guess that I had a new
> toy...a Canon 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro which arrived a day before I flew
> out so I had a bit of a learning curve to go through on the strengths
> and weaknesses of that lens and figuring out how to best use it. It
> was fun but very frustrating especially if I hadn't taken a tripod
> out on a particular trek with me. The depth of field was very small
> on some of those shots and the slightest breeze would throw a shot
> out of focus. Well, you learn by doing as they say!
>
> I had a "Bear Grills" jacket which I pressed into using as a
> camera-jacket but on a few occasions when leaning down taking macro ...

> I've returned from Borneo and have done an initial trawl of my images
> and put them online here:
>
> www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/

>Thanks for sharing the photos. As usual your photos are too dark. See
>for instance this image:
>http://www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/footbridge.htm

> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:35:54 +0200, Alfred Molon
> yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]

>>Thanks for sharing the photos. As usual your photos are too dark. See
>>for instance this image:
>>http://www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/footbridge.htm

>
> I know what you're saying but I was using a monitor at 90 cd/m2 and
> that matches my prints very well. I just like dark. Also, most people
> are using LCDs at 200 cd/m2 or above and they're not really motivated
> to turn down the luminance on their monitors despite any instructions
> from myself, so they're going to see nice bright images. For example,
> at work, checking people's monitors and my images all looked fine and
> there were no complaints on darkness.
>
> I almost think of this as a compromise in terms of me preferring
> darker images and most people seeing brighter images on their newer ...

> In article <2ar1v3p7khs18ecc1kic69j0c7ljvv08gb@4ax.com>, Kulvinder
> Singh Matharu says...

>> I've returned from Borneo and have done an initial trawl of my images
>> and put them online here:
>>
>> www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/

>
> Thanks for sharing the photos. As usual your photos are too dark. See
> for instance this image:
> http://www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/footbridge.htm
>
> The histogram ends at 200 and beyond 128 there is very little image
> content. Most of the image brightness values are squeezed between 0 and
> 128.

> www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/boa/

>>

>I tend to like dark images as well.
>
>They are actually fairly difficult to shoot, and it is often hard to resist
>simply making the subject brighter in order to draw attention to it.
>
>Nice Work,
>Dudley
>

> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:01:08 GMT, "Dudley Hanks"
> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]

>>>

>>I tend to like dark images as well.
>>
>>They are actually fairly difficult to shoot, and it is often hard to
>>resist
>>simply making the subject brighter in order to draw attention to it.
>>
>>Nice Work,
>>Dudley
>>

>
> Thanks. It is a difficult balance to achieve. It's funny, when I had
> my monitor luminance at 190 cd/m2 people said that my Antarctica
> images were too dark (it was assumed that these people were operating ...