So, I have Lightroom on the desktop PC and the Macbook laptop now. So I downloaded the photos off the camera. And given the flexibility of having the same package on both I decided to edit them on my nearly new Macbook for the first time. Hmm, mistake.
I edited happily enough. They were all a bit underexposed so I increased the exposure on the whole batch, made a few other changes, exported them ready to send back to the PC, uploaded them to password protected pages (**will come back to that) and went to bed happy. Woke up, had a look at them online, all overexposed. What happened?
Well, as it turns out, as you move the Macbook screen up and down the light on the photos change. I had clocked this and thought I’d had it square on but no, obviously I didn’t… so I am going to have to fix them all tomorrow. It’s a bit dull really and while I now know the problem, I wonder if it’s going to be much safer and easier long term to aim to do everything on the PC screen where I know that what I see is exactly what I get. Tricky. And annoying. Anyone with any advice???
** When I take photos of people where I haven’t asked them if I can flicrk/blog them, I put them up on a password protected site so they know only they can see them. Then I usually ask if I can blog/flickr when I send the link. That way people rarely seem to mind posing.
