Metal Prints - Dark?

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I got got a small metal print for this and the waves on the bottom are just hardly visible and the ocean is near black.

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>>2919109

This one the mountains in the back are basically flat grey instead of blue, as with the sky. Trees almost look de-saturated on the metal print.

The plane itself has a cool 3Dish effect though.

Sorry for the larger pics - just trying to put the bigger sized ones for comparison.

Is my screen that off possibly? I'm on a Dell Ultrasharp and believe it should be pretty within the ballpark.

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I also use a Dell Ultrasharp too with Spyder color calibration and have been very happy with almost a dozen prints done by Magnachrome.

Do you have calibration technology?

Is your monitor in a dark room? Is there glare behind or on the monitor?

>>2919109
you can analyze the histogram or hold the option key and move the sliders for the dark areas in lightroom and it will show you at what point things are clipping into black.

If you're getting clipping when barely moving the slider, then the image is under-exposed and your monitor is wrong.
If it's in normal position in histogram and it takes quite a bit of sliding to clip that ocean into black, then no monitor calibration is necessary in the slightest, the printing company is just f'd up.

Can you get a printer colour profile, and see what the images look like on your screen in comparison?

OP here, upon looking at them more in different lighting it might just be I'm not really used to metal prints.

2/3 of mine (including the bird sunset) are on more acrylic looking finish. The plane one >>2919110 is more metallic and bare which explains the color being a bit flat/silvery. It's odd because I chose the same finish but I really like it with good lightning as it makes a 3D effect almost.

>>2919334

I don't have a calibrater but other canvas prints I've done have been within norms for colors and especially exposure.

>>2919451

I'll try that thanks

>>2919467

I think they do in hindsight, colorwise it's fine after I discovered the finish difference. This >>2919109 is the only one that's really different in consideration. The waves being near black kind of sucks and I wonder with their color correction if they just chose to do that and crush the blacks on me.