HELP ME NIKON SHOOTERS!! (image quality)

Question

Okay guys, you usually give the best advice so here goes...

I've been shooting for a couple months now and I'm having some problems with image quality.

I have a D60. I have read books and all that jazz yet I still can't figure out what I am doing wrong. My photos look great when I view them on the LCD screen... They are full of color and great quality (even when i zoom in) but when I upload them they look denser.

help me....

here's a link to an example... never mind the model.. it was just a test.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9652/dsc0028cq8.jpg

PS: I use jpeg fine for easy transferring. If you could give me any settings to try I'm for it!! I usually stay away from auto.

**Also, If you really have a lot of advice or tips to share.. email me at [e-mail]

Answer 1

OK I am looking at it on my laptop so I may not be getting as good a look as I will on the desktop at home. What I saw here did not look badly out of kilter. So The first thing I will throw out is the posibility that you need to calibrate your display at home. It may be giving you a look on your computer screen that is not accurate. Also check to make sure your camera and monitor are using the same color space ( Adobe RGB or sRGB. If you still feel the colors are not vibrant you can go into your camera menu and tweek the vibrance and saturation ( I'm guessing you are still on the default settings) or shoot RAW and do it post production. Check your active D lighting settings and play with different ones. Sometimes on my nikons I have to go 1/4 to 1/2 f stop over what the meter says to get the look I want so you can also play with the exposure compensation

Answer 2

On my monitor that image looks fine (as far as exposure and color)  A bit of levels adjustment would make it pop, but it is certainly in the ballpark already.  How does it print?  Perhaps your monitor is too dark.  You might want to invest in a monitor calibration system.  Looking at a picture on the screen will always be more vibrant than the print, one uses transmissive light and the other reflective.  But if it prints fine, then look at your monitor as the culprit.

Answer 3

It must be the site because On Photoshop it looks a lot better!

I have the D60 and my pictures look diffrent its just the site. Get a flickr

Answer 4

Well, for one it could just be your lighting on your laptop.

But if anything you can always get a program called Picasa,

On that you can lighten the images and whatnot.

If your lucky your laptop can read the JPEGRAW images.

Those somehow always have good quality.

But it can also depend on what mode your on.

If your on auto, or programed.

If you program the lighting yourself, you can always get your image the way you want. Just play with the exposure time a little and wether your in the shade, or cloudy and what not.

Hope I helped :]

Answer 5

Good answers so far.

I saw that it looked somewhat flat when I just checked the imageshack thingie.  But when I actually downloaded it and brought it up in Photoshop to look at the metadata, it looked A LOT BETTER!

Which tells me that the problem is NOT you or your camera r your settings.  It's the d**n site.

I've heard this about other sites.  But since I never post anything anywhere except flickr, I don't have any experience with it.

I'm looking at it on a laptop, too - a Macbook.  And it's calibrated.  So I return to my original point:  it ain't you.