mrca
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Ron, I struggled for a year trying to get my monitor to match my prints. I finally purchased an IOne studio that sets the monitor brightness to a brightness I always create when editing. Then it calibrates color. This is done every few weeks to keep it accurate. But what made the real difference was using it to creat custom printer profiles for each printer for each paper. I had heard the same back lit monitor/reflective monitor bs for the year I chased my tail with a dozen expensive test prints. Now, my prints MATCH my monitor. I spend up to a half hour per image getting it looking exactly as I want it on the monitor and I want the print to match. Now I might do a 5/7 test print for a crop at print size to check sharpening and may even do a test print the other half of the 8x10 to double check color if I am making 16x20 or larger. The IOne also created a black and white profile for each paper.My color photo processing is simple, for film it comes back from the developer on a disk or electronically and is transferred to the computer. For digital it is transferred to my computer from the camera. I copy those photos I want printed to a thumb drive and pick up a Walgreens photo sale flier, to get 4x6 prints for 39 cents each.
My wife on the other hand, rarely reviews her photos, she just takes the SD card to Walgreens. At Christmas she had about $20.00 worth of 39 cent 4x6 family snapshots. The grandkids are even smarter, they cull the pictures on their phone or camera them send them by email them to the photo printed at Walmart. They pick them up on their next trip to town.
Black an white was been my issue. I can have a great Black and White photo on the computer screen, but when processed by a photo lab it will come back as a shade of black and a shade of white. I finally realized that I was comparing the reflected light from a photograph, to the back lit brightness of the computer monitor; definitely an apples to oranges situation. I will still do some dark room work, but it is mostly with my 4x5 view camera.