RE: Digital Camera PRofiling
RE: Digital Camera PRofiling
- Subject: RE: Digital Camera PRofiling
- From: Mark Buckner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:07:59 -0500
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you could get someone to
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flap their wings and hold up a gray card outside the glass so that it would
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cancel out the tint in the gray balance
It really requires no wings. I simply arrive at the arena early for a game
or practice, enlist someone to go out on the ice and hold the GelCard and I
do an in-camera custom gray balance through the glass. Yes, this may effect
some colors slightly, and yes it requires a small extra effort, but once
again the time saved in getting to a quality image is huge. I shot for a
major trading card company for nearly 10 years and can still remember the
moaning from the prepress color people when I sent in chromes that had been
shot in these conditions. The extra work they had in color correcting the
scans was a thorn in their paw. I have parted their company, but I feel sure
this method would solve these problems now tat their shooters are using
DSLRs
Now, that being said, I understand that there are photographers that are
either unable to gray balance in this manner because the situation prevents
it, or possible are too lazy to do so (I know a few of those whiners.) If I
find myself in the situation where I absolutely can't do a custom gray
balance on-scene, I shoot RAW and click balance later.
My point was to illustrate that in a wide variety of lighting conditions
with careful gray balance, a good profile is a big time saver, and that is
what the original post inquired about.
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