Re: My Tac Ops X-Ray 51 is here!!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Aries64</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
As VTi said, light affects the way Green-T appears in photos, whether natural light or flash. Because of this it is difficult to accurately capture the actual color of Green-T, but monitor settings aside the first photo in my post is several shades less green than Green-T is in person:
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Let me take this opportunity to voice one of my pet peeves about photography:
Light affects the way everything appears in photos AND in person. You can't take a photo without light/radiation, and you cannot see without it. It is the first rule of photography, and the most abused or neglected. Every light source has a color cast to it - every surface reflects light a certain way.
Most decent digital cameras(not the junk point and shoots or the camera phone images many people punish us with here) compensate fairly well as long as you program in the type of light you are taking the photo in by using the camera's 'White Balance' settings or setting them yourself, or by post processing the image with software such as Photoshop. However, few people do this. Not only will Green T look a bit off, but many photos on the internet by a non-professional or serious amateur photographer do not look halfway decent in composition, color, or lighting. It's not green T's fault at all, or the lighting, but the photographer. Add to this the fact that few people calibrate their monitors for color or gamma, and many images that are actually well-represented will still look off.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm
http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/all_tests.php
Having said that, at TO's price points, I do not see any reason to purchase any other tactical-type rifle even if it is several hundred dollars less. Benchrest accuracy in a tactical rifle is the best of both worlds.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Aries64</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
As VTi said, light affects the way Green-T appears in photos, whether natural light or flash. Because of this it is difficult to accurately capture the actual color of Green-T, but monitor settings aside the first photo in my post is several shades less green than Green-T is in person:
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Let me take this opportunity to voice one of my pet peeves about photography:
Light affects the way everything appears in photos AND in person. You can't take a photo without light/radiation, and you cannot see without it. It is the first rule of photography, and the most abused or neglected. Every light source has a color cast to it - every surface reflects light a certain way.
Most decent digital cameras(not the junk point and shoots or the camera phone images many people punish us with here) compensate fairly well as long as you program in the type of light you are taking the photo in by using the camera's 'White Balance' settings or setting them yourself, or by post processing the image with software such as Photoshop. However, few people do this. Not only will Green T look a bit off, but many photos on the internet by a non-professional or serious amateur photographer do not look halfway decent in composition, color, or lighting. It's not green T's fault at all, or the lighting, but the photographer. Add to this the fact that few people calibrate their monitors for color or gamma, and many images that are actually well-represented will still look off.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm
http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/all_tests.php
Having said that, at TO's price points, I do not see any reason to purchase any other tactical-type rifle even if it is several hundred dollars less. Benchrest accuracy in a tactical rifle is the best of both worlds.
