I love my photos I took of Mew, but when I look at them on different PC's, they look kinda dark. :S I'm slightly worried because I want to take these to be developed.
I have the same problem with my digital shots. The problem is different monitors have different settings and therefore your photos looks different.
The only thing I can suggest is perhaps sending one or two to get developed at first, as they are, and then when you get them back you can compare them to how they look on your monitor and try to adjust accordingly so that future prints will look how you want.
Does that make sense? I find it hard to explain lol.
Unfortunately, I had the misfortune of wrongly tweaking my Leaves and Thirteen Senses photos, so when I thought they looked bright enough, in actual fact they weren't. And I developed all 76 shots of them. Damn. I think your 1 or 2 shots to be developed makes more sense, I'll do that!
I took a photography course back in high school, and we'd always do test "strips", to see what exposure was best.
Something else you might try is playing around with the same shot in whatever photo editting program you use, save it at different brightnesses, maybe do 3 or 4 of the same photo but different brightness settings, get those developed, and pick which one turns out best.
In order to do that though you would have to remember what settings you used on each photo, maybe even putting some text on the shot before getting it printed just to know what setting you used...
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The only thing I can suggest is perhaps sending one or two to get developed at first, as they are, and then when you get them back you can compare them to how they look on your monitor and try to adjust accordingly so that future prints will look how you want.
Does that make sense? I find it hard to explain lol.
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Unfortunately, I had the misfortune of wrongly tweaking my Leaves and Thirteen Senses photos, so when I thought they looked bright enough, in actual fact they weren't. And I developed all 76 shots of them. Damn. I think your 1 or 2 shots to be developed makes more sense, I'll do that!
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I took a photography course back in high school, and we'd always do test "strips", to see what exposure was best.
Something else you might try is playing around with the same shot in whatever photo editting program you use, save it at different brightnesses, maybe do 3 or 4 of the same photo but different brightness settings, get those developed, and pick which one turns out best.
In order to do that though you would have to remember what settings you used on each photo, maybe even putting some text on the shot before getting it printed just to know what setting you used...
Just some ideas lol.
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I really want to do a photog course. I did a really short stint in my foundation course, just with photograms though, but it was still pretty cool.
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