DigCamera profiling
DigCamera profiling
- Subject: DigCamera profiling
- From: Jack Bingham <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:59:55 -0500
- Organization: Jack Bingham Studio
Karl Petersson wrote:
Second question is regarding camera profiles. Is there a working
solution
for reportage/press shooting that can be used for the Canon DCS 520 and
the
Nikon D1 that are practical There are several photographers on this list
and you will understand what I mean when I say practical for a press
photographer that might be shooting 6 assignments in one day and shoot
the
equivalent of 15 rolls in totally different light circumstances. If
anyone
has any good advice for me and useful experiences I would be very happy
to
hear from you.
What I would like is some form of work floow like shoot one pic of a
target
in the light circumstance and when importing the camera should
automatically
look for the reference frame and then use that profile too run the
images
trough and of course this should be highly automatic and preferably be
done
in the background, I know this is possible with some profiling software
and
with a loot of input from the user but what I am looking for is
something
that can be done on the fly.
Karl Petersson
Morgunbladid
Iceland
I can not speak for the Canon but have been wrestling with the D1 for
some time. My experience is that a good profile works very well so long
as you have a good gray balance. Yesterday I shot under fluorescent
light using gelled strobes and attempted to use the custom gray balance
arrangement which worked just short of not at all. I also shot a gray
card on the first frame. In pshop I made an action to resize to 300 dpi,
apply my camera profile and convert to adobe rgb, and apply a gray
balance based on the gray card image. I attempted to do the same thing
in Nikon Capture but it is not up to the task. The problem with this
for you is you will need to edit the action for each new lighting
arrangement. However, the results were very satisfactory, and in your
case might eliminate some of the massive editing task otherwise
required. And by the way for all of you out there, this guy lives in an
incredibly beautiful country!