Digital BW, The Print

For general scenes I agree with you, but creating a custom profile for a
product shoot, where for instance, the label color needs to be more than
accurate has saved me both time and effort while increasing customer
satisfaction. So for this type of work I would say I need a "clinical"
output rather than an artistic output for say landscapes.

 

I typically shoot my target at the beginning of the shoot and use a target
for the camera profile as well as set the white balance and exposure etc.
Then I can globally apply the changes to all of the images. For me, this
only applies to print based output (with an custom profile for the printer
and paper), and of course a calibrated monitor, all bets are off for web
based displays as you are at the mercy of monitors that are not calibrated,
and the vagaries of the web browser being used. 

 

Mike

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:28 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Article on Canon 5D Mark lll and Nikon D800 color

 

  



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , CDTobie
<CDTobie@...> wrote:

> But the goal of this excercise was to compare the camera color, which
requires paring this back to just that, not any of the following steps.

I understand, but as much of a believer as I am in color managed workflows,
I've never quite gotten the point of building camera-specific profiles, even
when dealing with very specific scene illumination conditions for real=world
subject matter (fine art repro is another matter). If the camera profiling
process still leaves you with global color temperature, lightness and
contrast issues, and you may still want to perform selective hue and chroma
adjustments, then I don' see any real image editing time savings when
choosing a software "camera profiled" image over the manufacturer's
"baseline" image calibration. On the other hand, if a camera has a real
deficiency in certain colors that are hard to manually correct, then some
camera calibration software might be of help, but I don't own any cameras
that are so far out they need this kind of additional software intervention
prior to beginning my "artistic" edits. They are all "close enough" as a
starting point which was my point for your chosen image examples as well.
None was so superior at the beginning as to diminish one's time in
subsequent image editing steps. David, maybe you can convince me otherwise
in good time, but this exercise didn't do it ;-).

kind regards,
Mark

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