
Originally Posted by
Isaac Grant
The monitor that you view your images on make a big difference. Arash says this all the time and he is of course correct. Just about everything looks great on my phone. When I view on my work monitor or latptop most things look. When viewing them on the 27" 5k imac very few look good. I would image if viewing on a 32" professional grade monitor even fewer look good. I find the large screens to be great for photography and are the great equalizer. If it looks good on there then it should look good on any screen but the opposite is not true at all. The photo has to be top notch for it to look good on the large screens. I only keep images that look tack sharp on the imac. It helps me be a much more selective and discerning photographer. Others are free to do whatever they want or keep whatever they want. But as we all are viewing images on different monitors there is no way the quality and details will look the same. As this pertains to your image when viewing at normal size and not zoomed in at all (no clue why anyone would want to do that on a downsized image) the image quality just isn't there. On my phone the noise is not as apparent but is still there as is the lack of fine feather details and contrast. Can't speak for what other people see when viewing on lower quality or resolution monitors, only what I see.