Exposure Levels Night Sports
Nov 14, 2021 11:07:37 #
Quite frequently I shoot local sports for several community weekly newspapers. I've noticed in recent weeks that some of these, as published online appear darker than those originally submitted from Lightroom edits, done with the proper exposure. What gives?
Nov 14, 2021 11:43:55 #
SBrodsky wrote:
Quite frequently I shoot local sports for several community weekly newspapers. I've noticed in recent weeks that some of these, as published online appear darker than those originally submitted from Lightroom edits, done with the proper exposure. What gives?
You'll need to provide a lot more information or you'll only get a splatter of guesses. Before recently, did they look as you expected? Have you printed them yourself? Has anything recently changed in your process, hardware or the media publisher? Have you calibrated/profiled your monitor? How do you know they were done with proper exposure?
Nov 14, 2021 11:47:06 #
A link to their on-line location may help to compare them?
Nov 14, 2021 12:05:55 #
I did purchase a new HP laptop, and downloaded the latest version of Photoshop/Lightroom, which I have been working with. I will check with my newspaper publisher to see what kind of online system they are using, to see if we are calibrated properly. Exposure levels were correct, based on the histogram from my Nikon 7200.
Nov 14, 2021 12:16:01 #
SBrodsky wrote:
I did purchase a new HP laptop......
The screen brightness may be set too high. It usually is with new stuff.
Nov 14, 2021 13:36:37 #
That sounds plausible, I know I did turn it up a tad. Where should it optimally be?
Nov 14, 2021 13:59:51 #
SBrodsky wrote:
That sounds plausible, I know I did turn it up a tad. Where should it optimally be?
Depends....
I set mine for what I like.
Everyone else's is probably set differently anyway, so they won't see things the same way I do.
Then there's the vertical viewing angle differences.
Nov 14, 2021 14:05:25 #
SBrodsky wrote:
That sounds plausible, I know I did turn it up a tad. Where should it optimally be?
You should be able to find monitor test imagess online (like THIS).
With a stepped greyscale you should set brightness and contrast such that the darkest two steps and the brightest two steps are just differentiable.
Nov 14, 2021 16:20:23 #
Try this link:https://northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com/stories/slides-holy-family-wins-football-playoff-opener,384923
Nov 14, 2021 16:22:28 #
Last link might not have worked. Here's another to The Pueblo Chieftain, whom I strung for as well this past weekend. On my laptop, photo looks fine on their website. Wonder if it might be my Android phone?
https://www.chieftain.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2021/11/13/pueblo-football-all-4-teams-beaten-class-4-a-class-3-a-playoffs/6385707001/
https://www.chieftain.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2021/11/13/pueblo-football-all-4-teams-beaten-class-4-a-class-3-a-playoffs/6385707001/
Nov 14, 2021 16:28:23 #
I'm thinking it's my phone, which tends to darken photos? Wonder how you fix that? It is a Samsung 20FE 5G.
Nov 14, 2021 17:51:57 #
SBrodsky wrote:
I'm thinking it's my phone, which tends to darken photos? Wonder how you fix that? It is a Samsung 20FE 5G.
At what level is your phone's display brightness set?
Nov 14, 2021 18:24:28 #
Nov 14, 2021 18:34:22 #
SBrodsky wrote:
About 2/3 of the way full.
Is your computer monitor brighter than your phone?
I know my phone is an AMOLED display, pictures on it look way different than either of my computer monitors.
Nov 14, 2021 22:41:02 #
SBrodsky wrote:
That sounds plausible, I know I did turn it up a tad. Where should it optimally be?
Use a profiling tool like an Xrite i1 Display Pro and set the white clipping point to 80 cda/m² and see if that works. If the images are still too dark, lower it to 75, and vice versa. It will probably seem very dark and muddy, but the important thing is that the prints and other devices used to display the images are showing the correct brightness. Learning how to judge the range of tones in an image using the histogram will be helpful.
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