Why colour matters (and the internet sucks for showcasing photos)
Every photographer worth their salt will have a screen calibrator of some sort. Even the cheapest type is better than none at all because our eyes and brains are designed to deceive us, something that can be easily demonstrated. So we need to get our screens representing colour as accurately as possible if w are to have any hope of having the image not only look good but look the same as it did on the screen when it's printed.
Most people though don't have a colour calibrator and simply use their monitors with whatever setting it came with out of the box. This is perfectly fine for most tasks but it means that when you look at a photo either on Flickr or some photographer website you are not really seeing the same thing as the photographer has created. The only real way to do this (apart from breaking into the photographers house and stealing their computer) is to the the photo printed and displayed as it should.
Moral of the story...if the photos look good on the web, they will look even better printed and hung on the wall.
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