Like before, in the midst of chaos, I still found time to play a little with form, figure, texture, lighting...etc. -=>Donald

Lets try the correct photo. :)

that 80's big belt is fantastically cool. Love the way it balances the tiny piercing ... just lovely and sensual, this shot :) Very clever, sensitive cut :)

...huh... very very nice shot.... i've some concern about the tone and the overall tonal range... but definitely a really nice shot!

Little dark here...but looks fantastic even so...very sexy indeed.

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--- michelleamarante.com

Meli - Thank you. The belt buckle just kept drawing my attention. Had to get a couple shots of it. :) Artax - You know, I didn't notice the range last night. now I see it, it's especially evident in the shadows on the left and right side of her right leg (photo left). Don't know what I did, need to go look at this shot again. The tone also seems to have a more, I dunno, "green?" cast than I remember. I'm thinking in my tired state this morning, I moved this to 8-bit/channel too early and then didn't convert the profile from AdobeRGB to sRGB. Thanks Nicco! Michelle - Hmmm ... how dark does it look to you? Thinking back to the other shot where you didn't see the greenish background behind the dancer. Wonder if my brightness it too high or yours too low? I really wanna get me one of those MonitorSpyder auto calibration devices. -=>Donald

My monitor...no matter how many times I calibrate it is darker than most. I can see the image but I'm sure I'm losing some details. I've heard in talking to others that certain video cards are just darker than others. It's a bitch for me...but I'm not spending money on a calibration device until I'm making enough money on my images to justify the expense.

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--- michelleamarante.com

'chelle - I know what you mean. Same here. I can't justify $200-300 on one now either. :/ Do you remember which video card you have? And no, I don't think you're dumb. :) I can't remember which card I have in my system anymore ... just that it's a GeForce3. :) -=>Donald

Mine is an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 on a Gateway EV910. Probably not the greatest setup? shrug If you want to find out right click on your desktop>properties>settings That's where mine is anyway.

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--- michelleamarante.com

Yea, I can only remember the chipset ... not who actually made my card (so it just shows NVIDEO GeForce3 blah blah in my settings). I had a GeForce2MX 400 once. There are settings through the NVidia driver for display (seperate from the PShop gamma correction and monitor controls). Have you adjusted those a bit? If not, they are located through Desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced There should be a tab called something like "NView". From there, select "settings" or "device settings" and then "color correction". That should take you to a screen that lets you directly change brightness, contrast, gamma and what NVidia calls "digital brilliance". And you can do it for all channels or just R/G/B seperately. May help. of course, you'll have to redo your PShop cal after changing these. -=>Donald

Oh boy.....one more thing for me to screw up!.....

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--- michelleamarante.com

Ok...went back through this one again. This image was weird. It has a very limited tonal range right out of the camera. I think I was able to make it a little better. Dunno if the D100 burped or if I screwed up a setting when I shotit (I'm betting on the latter). Anyway, can't see my screen correctly anymore (sunshine) so not sure. @'chelle - And there in lies all the fun. :) Well, that and strawberry-kiwi massage gel. Mmmmmmmm. -=>Donald

Big difference!....it's lightend up quite a bit and I can see details I couldn't see before......maybe it isn't my monitor....hmmm.....

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--- michelleamarante.com