Back to showing a couple of images

A couple more images from the shoot I did last week of the model Skyy Lane.

Skyy Lane in Italy

and one taken late in the evening in Oliveto Citra on the D3.  The D3 is just fantasting at high ISO settings isn’t it.

Skyy in Oliveto Citra at night

Sky in Oliveto Citra.The D3 set at 1250 ISO – stunning, I think.  It never fails to amaze me when ever I use it on a high ISO setting.  I hear some people say they prefer taking film – what on earth for?????

For those of you who like video’s instead of stills – here’s one I did earlier. To see the full width of the video please click the red title at the top of this column and then turn up the volume….

Dual monitors and colour profiles in windows

Have been trying for some time to get both monitors on a dual system to be matched but always failed.  Have just been going back to basics in the theory of it all and realised that it can’t be done.  Will someone else just go over this thought process and see if I’m right?

OK – 2 monitors A as main and B as secondary. Profile the main and save profile. Change B to main and profile it and save the profile. Change to A monitor as main and B as secondary and check both are looking at their own profiles in windows.  Ok, are you with me so far?

Now when you open a profile aware program like Adobe CS3 or Breezebrowser this is where it all goes wrong because, and you can check this with a program like Breezebrowser, when you open the program it loads the profile for the main monitor only.  Once you drag the program over the 2 monitors and set the thumbnails in one window and the full screen in the other the program still thinks, and only has programming for – the first profile.  Even Lightroom 2 does the same and the second monitor is then working on 2 profiles – the one windows loads (in this instance profile B) and then the one the program is working to – Profile A so the second screen is dual profiled therefore the wrong colour.

I’m sure this is what is happening – has anyone else seen any documentation on this or got any thoughts on it? It might stop me going mad.

ANSWER FOUND – OK, so after days of searching and reading up on this I’ve now found out that it’s impossible.  For the reasons I put in the previous post when windows opens up a profile aware program it also loads the main profile in to that program.  If you drag that program into your second monitor the original profile remains in the program therefore you are getting the wrong colours displayed.

I am now experimenting without a profile in the second monitor and just changing the colours by eye and the monitor controls themselves.  Early tests appear to show that having a profile there is worse than not having one at all.

I would love to hear from anyone who thinks they might have sorted this especially if they are using Lightroom 2.

Glamour shoot for a change

Have just finished doing a glamour shoot for a model from the UK.  Skyy came to spend a few days here to get some images for her portfolio and send some for publication in a couple of magazines, hopefully.

Skyy

This was shot using portable studio lights outdoors and then processed from a Nikon D3 raw file in Lightroom 2.

I’m going to be using more outdoor flash as I really like this effect.

Hope you like it.