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Best monitor for photo editing in 2019: top

screens for photographers
What is the best monitor for photo editing?
Welcome to our list of the best monitors for photo editing in 2019. If you're a professional photogIn
this guide, we'll look at the top professional photo editing monitors that offer great color reproduction
and vibrant, bright displays.

This will, of course, depend on the panel tech – newer ‘IPS’ LCD panels will have better color
reproduction than their older ‘TN’ counterparts, so this is worth looking out for in the specifications.
All the panels here will be IPS LED-backlit monitors.

IPS displays will feature better viewing angles, too, so if you ever sit at your computer and show
someone else photos, they’re a must. Screen size is important, too – make sure your display is
physically big enough for the work you want to do (we recommend 24-inches as a minimum).

Also, the best monitors for photo editing will be height-adjustable, but not all displays will have the
same capability to be fine-tuned. And, finally, when you’re buying a high-end display, it’s important to
make sure your computer’s graphics hardware is up to the task of displaying the high-resolutions
some monitors can reproduce.

While some of the best professional monitors for photo editing can be costly devices, we've also
included some more affordable options as well, which still offer excellent color reproduction and
image quality.

 These are the best laptops for photo editing

rapher, or just a keen hobbyist, then finding the best monitor for photo editing is essential.

. Eizo ColorEdge CG318-4K

A brilliant monitor for photo editing
Screen size: 31.3-inch | Resolution: 4096 x 2160 | Refresh rate: 60Hz | Panel technology: IPS
| Inputs: 1 x DisplayPort, 1 x Mini DisplayPort, 2 x HDMI, 1 x VGA | USB: 4 x USB 3.0
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Outstanding color accuracy

Includes hardware calibration tool

Includes monitor hood

A new car costs the same

 The 31-inch ColorEdge CG318-4K is our current pick for the best monitor for photo editing. This is
mainly down to its color accuracy, which is essential for professional photographers who edit their
photos. It features full sRGB coverage, 99% of the Adobe RGB spectrum and 98% DCI-P3. It fully
supports 10-bit colour, taken from a 16-bit look-up table.

The CG318-4K has a 4096 x 2160 resolution, compared with the 3840 x 2160 resolution used in
other 4K computer displays.

All of these features come together to produce a jaw-dropping image, making your photos really
stand out. There's also a built-in calibration tool to constantly keep the colors as accurate as
possible.

2. Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q

Another brilliant monitor for professional photographers
Screen size: 31.5-inch | Resolution: 3840 x 2160 | Refresh rate: 60Hz | Panel technology: IPS
| Inputs: 1 x DisplayPort, 1 x Mini DisplayPort, 1 x HDMI | USB: 4 x USB 3.0

Great colour accuracy

10-bit IPS panel with 16-bit look-up table

Pricey

Dell's top-end 31.5-inch 4K display packs in a lot of professional-grade features for superb color
accuracy. It is a pricey monitor, however, but then this is a large 4K screen, so you should expect to
pay a bit more. It comes with support for the DCI-P3 color spectrum. It has a specification that
almost rivals Eizo's monster CG318-4K, as it hits 99% Adobe RGB coverage and 87% DCI-P3,
delivering great picture quality.

2. Photographer chronicles hope and despair in

the California desert
Armed with a Leica M9 and a tripod, Osceola Refetoff searched the wide-
open spaces of the California desert to document images of bleak
landscapes that can be seen only through the windows of abandoned
homes.

“I set out to photograph the melancholy of decay and transience of human

endeavor,” Refetoff, a freelance photographer and location scout, said in an
interview. “Through it all, I tried to imagine who lived in these places, and
capture the views these dreamers and broken spirits considered while
looking out these windows.”

The payoff is in the images by Refetoff assembled for an exhibition titled

“High and Dry: Dispatches from the Land of Little Rain,” scheduled to open
March 22 at the Los Angeles Art Assn./Gallery 825.

Refetoff generally used a single, medium-wide lens to achieve a consistent,

neutral perspective. “They are the actual views that existed at the moment
of exposure,” he said.

3. The middle of somewhere

A celebration of childhood and family life througha collection of
simple yet beautiful moments of two sisters growing up in the
remote australian wildweness.

Photographyand text by sam harris

T We first discovered this work after it was submitted to the Visual

Storytelling Awards 2014. Although it was not chosen as a finalist by the
jury, the editors of LensCulture were impressed and decided to publish this
feature article about it. Enjoy!

“The Middle of Somewhere” is from my ongoing visual family diary, which

revolves around my two daughters growing up. After leaving behind my
photographic career (and life) in London in 2002, we passed several nomadic
years before settling down in a remote part of Australia where this series
began.
My work is a celebration of childhood, family life, love and our simplistic
lifestyle which intertwines with our environment. As I witness my daughters’
transformation—in what feels like the briefest of moments—I’m compelled to
preserve something of our time living together.

—Sam Harris

4 .Modern Photography Is
Changing How We Remember
Our Lives

I remember, as a child, pulling my grandmother’s yellowed Polaroids

from the dusty shoebox I’d found high up in her closet. That afternoon, we
sat next to each other on the couch, pulling old photos from the box one by
one.

Although she couldn’t recall exactly where and when each one was taken,
every photo triggered a story. My grandmother brought the images to life.
We laughed and we cried as she relived every picture, and I learned more
about her than I’d ever known before. In the late-evening glow, I watched
my grandmother’s hands shake as she reluctantly set each print back into
the shoebox.

Photography has drastically changed since then. Today, the moment has
hardly passed before it is seen by someone many miles away, someone we
might not even know. Our photos can speak instantly to the world, and our
reminiscence happens in real time.
The story of the modern camera is interwoven with our need to create,
record, and remember. The camera began redefining nostalgia in 1888,
when Kodak released a small and simple personal camera for amateurs:
“You press the button, we do the rest.” The camera quickly became
indispensable for recording and curating our lives. Precious moments were
made into keepsakes, while moments we no longer wished to remember
were discarded. Film photography peaked in 1999. That year, consumers
around the world took 80 billion photos.

Ubiquitous smartphones with their built-in cameras have, for the past
decade, helped us produce more photographs than ever before.
An estimated 1.2 trillion photos were taken in 2017, and more than 3 billion
images were shared across social media every day.
Our photos can speak instantly to the world, and our
reminiscence happens in real time.

Few could have foreseen that our relationship with photography would
become so intimate. The obsessive recording of our lives even seems to
affect how we experience and remember the world. We see more moments
through the camera, and we spend even more time looking at our phones,
watching the lives of others.

Phones and experiences go hand in hand. We walk through the world

looking for moments to capture, which in turn shape the way we experience
our environment. Given how many photos we now take, it’s no wonder some
worry it impedes on “real life.” Many of us have been told to put down our
phone and live in the moment, but there is also real science to back this up.

An intensive social media habit can impair the way we store memories,
researchers have found. A 2018 study confirmed that participants were less
likely to remember objects they photographed than objects they simply
observed. This is known as the “photo-taking-impairment effect” and
wasfirst identified in 2014.
The researchers found that remembering through photographs might
eclipse other forms of understanding. When we watch reality unfold through
the lens of a camera and on our screens, we’re taking in just a fraction of the
experience. In other words, while we’re visually engaged, we miss out on
other important sensory information.

Photo-taking can also be a form of cognitive offloading. Reassured that the

device is doing the hard work of recording the information, we offload part
of our memory onto its digital memory. “You don’t need to remember as
well because you know the camera can ‘remember’ for you,” says study co-
author Jennifer Soares, a doctoral candidate at UC Santa Cruz. “Like when
you take a photo of your parking spot number and don’t bother to try to
remember it.”

Yes, we’ve all done that. But for the most part, we don’t take photos to
remember details. “Some photographers would argue that their photo-
taking isn’t cognitive offloading,” Soares says, especially if they consider
their work to be art that is designed for precisely the opposite.

And yet the outcome of this age of photographic abundance has been quite
unexpected: While helping us remember our experiences, the volume of
photographs and the platforms on which we see them also make it easy to
forget them. Snap, share, scroll, repeat — pictures have become ephemeral,
sliding down an endless stream, mostly unnoticed and rarely to be
encountered again. In this way, photography has actually returned to its
very origins.

The year is 1290, and Arnaud de Villeneuve has gathered a small group of
people in a darkened room. They huddle around a spot of light on the wall
that shows an image — not sharp or bright, but enough for them to conjure
up murderous scenes of war and, later, the hunting of an animal.

Villeneuve is a practicing physician and a showman in his leisure time. To

his audience, though, he’s a magician. The picture he creates was at once
distant and intimate. Viewers exhaust the meaning from every image before
it disappears. When the presentation is over, the small crowd is enraptured.
Whispering to one another, they muse on Villeneuve’s mastery. It is an
event the people here will not soon forget.

Villeneuve was no magician. He was a proto-photographer with a camera

obscura, and yet he gave his audience what was perhaps the first glimpse at
our photographic future.

Think of your parents’ collection of childhood photos — that terrible haircut,

immortalized between the frayed edges of the print. The camera turned
subjects into objects for the future and already of the past: memories, good
and bad. Photographs were taken less frequently and in limited quantities.
Few had the option of cherry-picking between minute variations of the same
shot. Those that were taken were kept and collected, and unless we chose to
discard them, they were permanent.
When images are easy to make and easy to share,
they come to be less about permanence.

The easier it became to shoot and share, the less each shot was valued.
We’re now overwhelmed with so much nostalgia that the photograph has
lost much of its ability to affect — we don’t care about most of the pictures
we scroll past. It’s no wonder our social media feeds use algorithms to help
us decide what’s important.

Yet Snapchat, whose users send pictures and videos that quickly disappear,
may be the catalyst for imbuing meaningfulness back into photography in a
new way.

Nathan Jurgenson, author of the forthcoming book The Social

Photo, wrotein 2013 that ephemeral photography was a cultural response to
photographic abundance. The temporary photo, Jurgenson wrote, “inspires
memory because it welcomes the possibility of forgetting.” In other words,
the image’s abbreviated lifespan — its fleeting nature, or ephemerality —
changes how it is made and seen. You post an Instagram story; it vanishes
after 24 hours. This way, the photo becomes something more prized and
conversational and something to be cherished in a new way.

Jurgenson told me that he draws a distinction between the traditional

photograph as a permanent documentary object and the social photograph,
which tends toward “ephemerality, playfulness, and expressiveness. When
images are easy to make and easy to share, they come to be less about
permanence.”

Social photos, like those on Snapchat, Jurgenson explains, “try to capture

the experience of the moment, the what it’s like between the ears of the
person making the snap.”

Photographs will continue to function in their traditional roles as

documentary proof, as art, and as aids to our memories. Yet we’re
increasingly seeing the world not just as something to freeze and capture,
but as something to talk with. When the photo is as important as its context,
the experience is different, and the moments are remembered or forgotten
as such. The snaps I send to friends today are in many ways strangely
similar to that nostalgic afternoon at my grandmother’s.

But perhaps this new era of photography is not unlike Villeneuve’s 13th-
century spectacle. We share and talk with experience as we feel it. Photos
are made into “Stories.” They make us 😂. They make us 😂. We type on
them, draw on them, apply filters. We exhaust the meaning from every
image before they disappear — just as Villeneuve’s audience would have
done in that darkened room so long ago.

he Middle
Photographs and text by Sam Harris

5. Toehold Photography Tours

If you’re a photography enthusiast keen to make the most of a vacation, Toehold’s Photo Tours are the
perfect answer. Meticulously designed to generate not only a myriad of photo opportunities but also a
 wholesome experience, they’re simply the best way in which to explore a place with a camera, with
professional photographers, whose knowledge of the place is immense and love for it intimate.

Th
Why go on a Toehold Tour?
 Carefully planned to maximise photo opportunities
 Led by professional photographers
 Supported by over 100 years’ collective experience
 Hands-on photography assistance in the field
 Extensive learning off-field
 Image-reviews, post-processing and presentations
 Photography equipment available on rent
 Post-Tour guidance, advice and assistance

e Middle of Somewhere
 A celebration of childhood and family life through a collection
ofTours for All Seasons.

And Unending Excitement for You.

With some of the planet’s best destinations on the calendar, our Tours have something for everyone. And
delivering effective photography-instruction, hands-on assistance and subject-knowledge transfer, they
combine the pleasures of experiential travel and learning in a way that is as fun as enriching. Pick from
our exhaustive range of Tours below to kickstart your journey through your heart now, and let yourself
loose on the world for an unending period of excitement.

ness.

Photographs and text by Sam Harris

Pushkar Travel Photography Tour

 e Fair Affair
Deep in the ancient Indian soil rests many a tale that sings of everything human and divine when
you stir it up.
This Tour is an effort to gently brush aside the sands of time and experience the ageless beauty
of Pushkar.

Tour Highlights
 A 3-night/4-day exclusive experience in one of the most ancient cities of India
 A soul-enriching exploration and photographic journey during the world-famous annual fair
 A productively satisfying time enjoying travel photography
 Extensive photography learning under the guidance of accomplished experts
 A wide spectrum of stunning events and experiences worth cherishing for always

Middle of Somewhere
A celebration of childhood and family life through a

Hampi Travel Photography Tour

ness.

Photographs and text by Sam Harris

Ruin Reminiscence
Amble down an avenue in a trance, and blink as though you were blinded – not by a beaming sun
overhead, but the sweet illusion of sparkling diamonds that were once sold on the streets. In
Hampi, listen patiently, for every stone here has a story to tell, and every ruin something to
reminisce about.

Tour Highlights
 A three night stay in a three-star hotel
 An authentic travel experience with a wide array of historical monuments, statues and other relics to
photograph
 An exhilarating time walking the historical streets of Hampi and photographing its magnificent ruins
 Extensive field assistance and insights into the subjects of photography
 A travel-photography masterclass with a professional photographer

Ladakh Landscape Photography Tour

 High on the Himalayas
In the dizzying heights of the Himalayas, where nature is unconquered, an inescapable sense of
aesthetic delight abounds, and heaven dons an earthly form; where natural splendour touches its
vertical limit and the landscape talks its own language, uncover the hidden meanings in the high
passes.
Discover Ladakh to uncover yourself.

Tour Highlights
 A 9-day exclusive experience with only three participants in each utility vehicle
 A soul-invigorating adventure and photographic expedition in the heart of the great Himalayan mountain
system
 A creatively satisfying time enjoying landscape photography in some of the most scenic environs on the
blue planet
 Learning to make panoramas, time-lapse videos, long exposures and star-trails using spectacular
foregrounds
 Extensive photography assistance and subject matter learning under the tutelage of accomplished
professionals
 Leveraging the wealth of your Skipper’s skill, knowledge and experience to enjoy a variety of new
experiences