Adorama Rovelight RL 600, thoughts?

Single rovelight with white beauty dish and sock diffuser!

^^Very Nice!!

Nice shot Joey!

I wrote up a review of this light for anybody interested. Not too technical, just gave my thoughts.

http://www.pecephoto.c​om …architectural-photography

Thanks for the info in this thread, it helped me in deciding to purchase this light. New user here but previous reader

PECE Photo wrote in post #17567599
I wrote up a review of this light for anybody interested. Not too technical, just gave my thoughts.

http://www.pecephoto.c​om …architectural-photography

Thanks for the info in this thread, it helped me in deciding to purchase this light. New user here but previous reader

thanks for the review , but it is hardly readable due the color you chose for your text.

majix wrote in post #17567669
thanks for the review , but it is hardly readable due the color you chose for your text.

i can read it just fine... great quick review btw!

majix wrote in post #17567669
thanks for the review , but it is hardly readable due the color you chose for your text.

Thanks for the input. I'll look into changing that as there is no point in writing it if people can't read it. The font color I believe was set by my designer in the settings, but I will see if I can change it.

dtufino wrote in post #17567877
i can read it just fine... great quick review btw!

Thanks! Appreciate that.

I take a look at the webpage myself, and I think I can understand why some people may say it's hard to read. I believe the choice of fonts color is designed correctly for your website, which is to make the text less distracting from the photo. But in term of blog usage, it could become a problem. I look at it using 2 computers. One is a high-res(4K monitor, close to sRGB and calibrated), and the other is a chromebook. Chromebook which has much lower resolution, which mean text appear bigger and brightness max it, it read fine at the right viewing angle. The one w/ 4K resolution is a bit problematic for two reasons especially with your choice of color. 1. text look smaller, especially the capture under the pictures which is even smaller. 2. brightness on calibrated monitor are usually dimmer. Meaning if I magnify the page and up the brightness up, I would have no problem reading it on that machine either. On the other hand, on my chromebook machine w/ crappier monitor w/ poorer color/contrast, if I adjust the viewing angle by just a few degree, it could screw up so bad that the text simply disappear(blend into the background). So both of the previous reader were right. I'm not saying you should change the design of your webpage simply to make it easier to read. It serve the purpose of your website just fine, which is to advertise your work and focus on the picture w/ minimal text reading. But if you want to blog a lot then changing fonts color may be better or simply spin off the blog portion to some other place would be more ideal.

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someone0 wrote in post #17568232
I take a look at the webpage myself, and I think I can understand why some people may say it's hard to read. I believe the choice of fonts color is designed correctly for your website, which is to make the text less distracting from the photo. But in term of blog usage, it could become a problem. I look at it using 2 computers. One is a high-res(4K monitor, close to sRGB and calibrated), and the other is a chromebook. Chromebook which has much lower resolution, which mean text appear bigger and brightness max it, it read fine at the right viewing angle. The one w/ 4K resolution is a bit problematic for two reasons especially with your choice of color. 1. text look smaller, especially the capture under the pictures which is even smaller. 2. brightness on calibrated monitor are usually dimmer. Meaning if I magnify the page and up the brightness up, I would have no problem reading it on that machine either. On the other hand, on my chromebook machine w/ crappier monitor w/ poorer color/contrast, if I adjust the viewing angle by just a few degree, it could screw up so bad that the text simply disappear(blend into the background). So both of the previous reader were right. I'm not saying you should change the design of your webpage simply to make it easier to read. It serve the purpose of your website just fine, which is to advertise your work and focus on the picture w/ minimal text reading. But if you want to blog a lot then changing fonts color may be better or simply spin off the blog portion to some other place would be more ideal.

Thanks. Nice to get more input. The text color is actually part of the color scheme my designer picked for my logo and branding. It is supposed to kind of tie in that way. IF people can't read it I'd definitely like to change it, just haven't gotten around to it. I also agree with you on your other point. I am not a big blogger and it is not a huge part of my website, so I see your point there too. Thanks again!

you can use this HTML code to change the font color without changing the whole blog template


<font color="color_name|hex_​number|rgb_number"> xxxxxxxxxx </font>

rgb(x,x,x) or #xxxxxx or colorname

for example :
<font color="red">This is some text!</font>
<font color="#ff0000">This is some text!</font>

PECE Photo wrote in post #17568822
Thanks. Nice to get more input. The text color is actually part of the color scheme my designer picked for my logo and branding. It is supposed to kind of tie in that way. IF people can't read it I'd definitely like to change it, just haven't gotten around to it. I also agree with you on your other point. I am not a big blogger and it is not a huge part of my website, so I see your point there too. Thanks again!

Not that's it terrible but I can see what they are talking about. I have a hi-rez 27" calibrated monitor and the text is readable but not very easy to read. It kind of fades into the background.

This is just for your reference.

Jim

Some site have nice colour combinations that's make my head spin and I press then CTRL-A and all items are now framed in a blue background with white letters or inverse on a dark background it will be blue letters on a white background.

On the mentioned site I don't have a problem with reading of the gray letters on the white background.