Re: Color management is for wimps
Re: Color management is for wimps
- Subject: Re: Color management is for wimps
- From: Karsten Krüger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:16:52 +0200
Yes, my monitor is calibrated, but my monitor has nothing to do
with this. This image is unedited and unadjusted, straight from my
D70 as a BASIC JPG.
Shoot carefully to get the right color in-camera.
I believe these are the main points to take care of as a consumer:
- don't mess with the color unless you know what you do.
- Get it right at the beginning, when you take the picture.
- Use sRGB because the output device (picture service, ink jet
printer at default) expects it.
You don't get the max out of your devices, but you get (at
consumerlevel) acceptable results.
I can second this for a **non professional** workflow:
- First you get a workflow with kind of a consistend color space - sRGB.
- Second we talk about consumer cameras. I used to take pictures with
a Minolta dImage A1. I did a lot of profiling on it (RAW, TIFF and
JPEG) in a lot of light situations (about 200 profiles total) to
learn about camera profiling. What I learned was that the profiles
take care of the light situation. But when the light is in a standard
situation even the RAW results were extremely close to sRGB except
for the whitepoint. So at least for one sRGB and .jpg is the best
workflow due to the way they process color inside the camera.
Things get different when leaving consumer products. Don't try this
with a Canon EOS 20D. It's inner processing never really hits sRGB or
AdobeRGB. Preselecting the whitepoint and shooting RAW is the only
way to get results you would expect from it.
- Then we talk about output devices which usually have a larger color
space than offset. Especially digital minilabs, which try to get
close to traditional photo processing.
- And finally we talk about consumer level perception of a picture.
We are trained to actually see problems of color processing. A slight
color shift is unnoticed by most people...
Just my 2 cents.
Karsten
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