I used to worry about the colors, contrast, and brightness that other people saw when they looked at my stuff online. I'd use my color calibrated monitor and post with caution. It always bugged me that my husband, who works almost entirely in the virtual world (games and web stuff) never worries about calibration. I was like, how can you not?
Eventually I got over it and realized that calibration doesn't matter when you're talking about viewing images and video online. Heck, I have 5 monitors in the room I'm in, 3 of which are calibrated the same way, and none of them display images exactly the same. On my lap top images will look too dark when I work in one room and washed out when I work in another, so why even try to match what everyone else has? And you really don't want to see what your images look like on iPads, smartphones, projectors and TV's because it can be scary.
I only worry about calibration when I'm printing now (which I do from a desktop because the laptop just has too many variables). And when I process things for the web I tend not to do a ton of processing and I look at the histogram more than the image because it doesn't care how my monitor looks. If my images don't look like what I see on my monitor when someone else views them on their monitor and they think my work is crap because it looks wonky to them, well I know what I shot and I know if I'm happy with it. And that's all that matters to me.
