Screen calibration test for printing

I have this image of a moose in a meadow I want to print but I don't trust my laptop monitor for brightness and color calibration..unfortuna​tly the laptop is all I have to edit and view on.

Does the exposure look smooth/bright enough? Would love to hear some feed back from someone with a trusted monitor so I can compare against what I'm seeing. From my end it looks good enough to print.

Here is a full size link to the image http://i.imgur.com/ocz​Von8.jpg (vignetting is intentional)

Much appreciated!

Damien

If you are unsure and don't want to commit to anything expensive, a 4" x 6" test print will be a cheap way of testing it.

Lowner wrote in post #16558978
If you are unsure and don't want to commit to anything expensive, a 4" x 6" test print will be a cheap way of testing it.

Good idea! Not sure why I never thought of that

Thanks!

neimad19 wrote in post #16558853
I have this image of a moose in a meadow I want to print but I don't trust my laptop monitor for brightness and color calibration..unfortuna​tly the laptop is all I have to edit and view on.

Does the exposure look smooth/bright enough? Would love to hear some feed back from someone with a trusted monitor so I can compare against what I'm seeing. From my end it looks good enough to print.

Here is a full size link to the image http://i.imgur.com/ocz​Von8.jpg (vignetting is intentional)

Much appreciated!


Damien

Nice capture.

On my Spectraview calibrated NEC monitor the image looks pretty good, which is confirmed by the histogram. However, I'd suggest a couple of enhancements.

1. Brighten the bottom tree line, yellow meadow, and moose plus raise the saturation of that area a little, thus giving it more emphasis.

2. Burn down the sky between the two mountain peaks, thus giving it less emphasis.

P.S. The image was posted with no color profile, so we have to guess. I guessed sRGB.

Lowner wrote in post #16558978
If you are unsure and don't want to commit to anything expensive, a 4" x 6" test print will be a cheap way of testing it.

Great advice. I almost always do this, either at the beginning of a large batch, or before printing anything 8x10 or larger.