Hi... I have been having some problems lately when post processing images so would just like to get other people's perspective, using the photo below as a specific example.
Please could you give your opinion specifically regarding contrast / shadows / highlights etc.
A bit of background to why I'm asking is that up until the last year or two I used a (non-calibrated) monitor for editing with lightroom and found that I was fairly happy with the output (online and prints).
I then found myself editing on my phone more and more but again was still fairly happy with the output (online).
Late last year I bought an ipad pro (11 inch) and started doing my post processing on that but find that I often get an image that I'm happy with on the ipad but then when I view on my phone or either of two non-calibrated monitors the images appear quite flat and grey. I get that the first thought would be that as the monitors are not calibrated I can't rely on them but I used the monitors for years and was happy with them but maybe that's just because they had been processed on there but maybe they would have appeared overly contrasty if viewed on a better screen at the time.
It's left me feeling a bit in no mans land because my images seem to now only look ok on one device and poor on three, whereas it was once that they looked ok on three devices.
So, as stated above, I would really appreciate if a few people could try to tell me what this image appears like on their device, specifically the front wall relative to the rest of the image
i.e.
1....a bit too flat / grey ?
2....a reasonable contrast ?
3....a good level of contrast ?)
or
4.... a bit underexposed overall ?
Thanks, here is the example photo....
Dereliction by NPUK, on Flickr
Please could you give your opinion specifically regarding contrast / shadows / highlights etc.
A bit of background to why I'm asking is that up until the last year or two I used a (non-calibrated) monitor for editing with lightroom and found that I was fairly happy with the output (online and prints).
I then found myself editing on my phone more and more but again was still fairly happy with the output (online).
Late last year I bought an ipad pro (11 inch) and started doing my post processing on that but find that I often get an image that I'm happy with on the ipad but then when I view on my phone or either of two non-calibrated monitors the images appear quite flat and grey. I get that the first thought would be that as the monitors are not calibrated I can't rely on them but I used the monitors for years and was happy with them but maybe that's just because they had been processed on there but maybe they would have appeared overly contrasty if viewed on a better screen at the time.
It's left me feeling a bit in no mans land because my images seem to now only look ok on one device and poor on three, whereas it was once that they looked ok on three devices.
So, as stated above, I would really appreciate if a few people could try to tell me what this image appears like on their device, specifically the front wall relative to the rest of the image
i.e.
1....a bit too flat / grey ?
2....a reasonable contrast ?
3....a good level of contrast ?)
or
4.... a bit underexposed overall ?
Thanks, here is the example photo....
Dereliction by NPUK, on Flickr