Why I chose M
Asher Kelman said:
One can also discuss why one makes a choice. I find it tough. So it would be great to share one's reasoning.
Of those in which the lady's jumper is white, I thought this was probably the nearest to how she appeared in "real life" the night of the shoot. I wanted her in white, because, as I said in my first post to this thread, looking at the clues of her coiffure and her pose, I thought she dressed in white to show off her tan.
I judged that white was the original color of her jumper, also, from reading the opinions in the original thread discussion.
Also, I wanted an image in which the gentleman's shirt is a definite blue, not a washed-out blue. Again, from the thread discussion, I judged this to have been the nearest to the actual shirt which he was wearing. Color of clothing, in my opinion, does affect the appearance of skin tones.
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Of those with the white jumper and definite blue shirt, I chose M because the highlights had not been removed. Given the social status clues which I mentioned in my first paragraph, I judged that she would have been heavily made-up, perhaps using something similar to what we used to call "pancake make-up." Or one would have something like that effect with a product like a liquid Cover-Girl skin make-up. I thought that this slightly-greasy make-up would reflect some highlights, and they did not seem too intrusive to me in M.
Also state whether or not you have a calibrated monitor!
I don't really think that my monitor is color calibrated.
My monitor is a ViewSonic LCD, 17-inch screen, purchased in December, 2002.
I will say this: the appearance of Dierk Haasis's "Hamburg Panorama" (which see at his website,
www.DH2Publishing.info ) is very near in its color display to the colors of the print of it which he made for me and which now hangs framed on the wall across from my computer room door. The angles of sight are such that I have only to turn my head slightly to view both my monitor screen and the print.
Well, I'll leave the link in my post. But I've just had a look, and I no longer find this particular work shown in his gallery. But there are others equally beautiful there, like "Going for a Walk," which he also displayed here at OPF recently. It's the one with the deer in snow. To be found in " Hamburg: Grüne Stadt" by clicking on the Hamburg gallery on his home page. The colors in that picture have similar quiet tones to those in "Hamburg Panorama."
I guess this is all that I can say about my computer monitor. If it turns out that it is color calibrated (the way my G2 turned out to have RAW capability despite my mistaken impression) so much the better.
Mary
