RE: Digital Camera Profiling
RE: Digital Camera Profiling
- Subject: RE: Digital Camera Profiling
- From: Mark Buckner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:49:09 -0500
To get back to the original post's question, I am a working photographer and
I feel that high quality custom camera profiles make my life easier, save me
time and make me money, so here is the "kit" that I use...
My profiles (for DSLRs from both Canon and Nikon) are built with ColorEyes
20/20 from Integrated Color (www.integrated-color.com). This utilizes their
custom target and a matching custom reference file (targets are individually
measured). This runs as a Photoshop plug-in so the "kit" is all in one box.
I have tried others, this is more expensive but the profiles are clearly
superior, as judged by the amount of post-processing required.
I find profiles to be equally effective with images captured as in-camera
JPRGs and/or RAW, and although I see a greater effect on the Canon files, it
is nonetheless indispensable to my Nikon workflow. As for those who say a
different profile is needed for every situation, I'll use Andrews indelicate
word: Hogwash. I shoot NHL hockey almost exclusively.
REAL WORLD EXAMPLE: I'm currently in Vancouver shooting games at EI800,
through tempered glass (green tint) with available light. I shoot home games
with strobes at EI200, no glass in the way. Throw in on-camera flash in the
locker room and daylight shots of players outside the arena. Several VERY
different lighting, same profile, equally effective. All that it requires is
a good custom gray balance in each scenario.
As to the sub-plot of this thread as regards ACR, I'll just say I find it
humorous that some are now advocating a "visual approach" that amounts to
"just fool around with the sliders to make it look good on your calibrated
monitor". Seems like a step backward in the whole ICC/ColorSync workflow
that we have worked so hard to get folks to accept.
Mark Buckner
Staff Photographer
St. Louis Blues, NHL
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