Damien Symonds

No more prints. Just concentrate on matching the prints you have.

Well, this is all the control you have: https://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/14.-s5p08.gif

Which Spyder is it?

Great! Now you have the prints, you can calibrate again to match them.

Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest there would be anything wrong with your screen. It's a great screen, it'll serve you well for many years to come. Both are great. See which you can find at the best price.

This is the Photoshop solution, of course, but you should be able to adapt it to a raw preset fairly easily if desired. Download PSD

I'd hoped for a bit more masked off the subjects, particularly their skin, to be honest.

Oh gee, it's LED. I was afraid of that. X-Rite discontinued the manufacture of the i1Display2 a few years ago, because it doesn't work well with LED screens

The minilab prints are fine. Preferable, even. Avoid gloss paper, go for lustre. How new/old is your monitor?

Do you like it?

Good. Now add this Levels layer: Red 85/1.50/255 Green 0/0.45/255 and 30/255 Blue 0/0.55/255 Then with a 10% brush, mask gently off the subjects to your taste.

Very very carefully.

A lot more than that. To match the links you provided, I mean.

Is this anywhere close?

Before attempting any colour work, it goes without saying that you need to do the blur. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/06/blurring-background-false-dof.html

Yay! PLEASE don't wait any longer to step up to the Raw and Levels Classes. They'll rock your world.

If it's only Bridge, maybe the solution is to turn on the thing about "monitor size previews" in Bridge's preferences.

So with that knowledge, I need you to examine the problem a bit further. In what program/s did the files look blurry to you? Only Bridge?

You've seen, I trust, that the files aren't actually blurry?

Gosh, how big are they?

Dana! Chill, for heaven's sake. This focus is excellent.

Well, the first step is for me to take a look at one of the "blurry" files, and one of the "good" ones. Please send them to me via https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/BellePhotography

Yes there is, but I can't find it, since his website is under maintenance. Brian, you'll have to provide your own beer link

Yes.

Yes, I agree with your analysis.