It would appear that photos without any sort of narrative provide less incentive for people to leave comments. So, let's try a little narrative this week.
Sunday evening produced a lovely sunset and from our perspective in the mountains, I captured the following shot. Again, please excuse the "Photomatix" watermarks.
DD very generously let me spend about 2 hours taking photographs. The light produced some amazing effects on the mountains and I completely lost track of time. In fact, if it hadn't been past EV's bedtime, I likely would have filled the entire 2 GB available on the memory card.
I learned something interesting yesterday about photography on the web. Apple now has a version of the Safari browser for Windows. Now you might ask, "Why in the world would I want to use Safari on Windows?!" And here is what I learned: Safari renders the colors in graphics more effectively--photographs in particular--in cases where the graphics files are encoded using a color space like Adobe RGB.
If you need proof, try looking at the photo below with Internet Explorer, Firefox, or just about any other browser. Then have a look at the same photo with Safari. The difference is impressive.
Postscript (07.10.2007): The colors on some of my web images were driving me crazy--they looked fine in Adobe Lightroom or any other application on the Mac but looked horribly gray-green and flat on the web with anything other than Safari. This drove me to a little research where I learned that if you use any color profile to save your images for the web other than sRGB, you're asking for trouble. I have re-exported this image with the sRGB color profile and now it looks much more similar to the original. It was awfully frustrating to take these images with a decent digital SLR only to display putrid looking images online... Sometimes things that annoy you make you better.
You're right. I like a little narrative with pictures.
Posted by: Sijbrich | July 03, 2007 at 09:26 PM