Gulls - Dark or Light?

[snowyowl13]

A couple of Herring Gull shots from the Island outing on Saturday. It was a darkish, raw day. I have been trying to calibrate my monitor and I'm anxious to get feed back about how dark or light the pictures appear on your monitors.:confused:

[bromm]

Wow Dan that first shot is great! the second is dark but most of mine turned out that way so I dont think I'd fault the monitor. Well done !

[snowyowl13]

Thanks, Shirley! I didn't get many good shots but did manage a few. I think I'll leave the monitor adjustment as is for now and see what feed back i get over the next little while.

[canonloader]

The first shot seems sharper, and better overall. Both of them seem just a tad dark to me though, but my monitor is not calibrated and an LCD to boot. How are you calibrating yours?

[hTr]

I like the shots but I agree they could be a bit Brighter

[snowyowl13]

My monitor is an LCD.

[Booswalia]

Gee those look very similar to the shots I got on Saturday.
They do appear a little dark. Pehaps not as dark as some of your other posts.
How do these charts look on your monitor... http://www.sonnys.ca/viewing.htm

[snowyowl13]

I have darkened my monitor, hopefully with result that my pictures will be brighter after PP.
I can easily see all 21 shades on your chart but the left hand square of the three squares, seems to blend in slightly more than the others so I think I will darken my monitor some more (although not a lot more).