I spent about an hour yesterday calibrating my monitor (exciting or what!), so that I could more accurately judge the images that I will send to Peak Imaging to create prints for me. One of the first things that their calibration instructions tells you to do is change the Kelvin rating of your mointor from 9300K, which apparently is the usual factory default, to 6500K, which is the temperature of daylight. After following the instructions I decided to check a few sample images and noticed that they were rather “warm” in appearance (as you would expect with the temperature change).

Now I’m wondering whether or not most people are unaware of what their monitors are set to - if they’re all set to 9300K, then my online images will all look fine. They will look a little different on the 6500K setting though - not neccesarily worse, but definitely different.

I realise that I can’t control how people set up their monitors, but I can try and find out which is the most common temperature setting. So do you know what your monitor is set to? Drop me an email to let me know…