Calibrating a Laptop while travelling
Calibrating a Laptop while travelling
- Subject: Calibrating a Laptop while travelling
- From: Paul Foley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:56:00 +1000
Hi all,
Next week I leave on a photographic assignment that will have me
staying a week each in two different cities. I will be in a single
location at each of the cities. I will be editing the shoot while on
the road and showing the results to my client (who is traveling with
me) on my laptop. I will also send some images to a designer in a
third city either via email or thru my website. These will be lo res
"proofs" to show style and subject matter as well as an idea of
colour. Selections will be made from these proofs for me to process
(thru Lightroom and CS3) on the Eizo when I get home.
While I will avoid doing too much by way of colour adjustment while
away I will be shooting in mixed light (I try to balance any flash to
the various ambients via gels and use a Colour Checker).
I wonder about the best approach to calibrating the laptop so that the
colours my client sees on the laptop won't be too different to what I
see when I get back to the light controlled room at home.
My initial thought was to update the calibration before I go and leave
it at that. It may be possible to adjust the room light in the places
I am staying to be close to my workroom. I recently began using a
Spyder 3 which can measure ambient light but I don't have much
experience in using this facility as the light in my workroom is kept
pretty constant. Would there be any benefit / disadvantage in
calibrating for each of the places I am staying? If I did would I use
the ambient light facility?
Up till now, in similar circumstances, I have always qualified the
viewing of pics on the laptop as not being colour balanced. My reason
for investigating alternative methods is that this client has
indicated some work overseas that will require me to deliver final
images while on the road.
As a devotee of the KISS methodology I worry about making life more
complicated by even considering all this.
Any thoughts will be appreciated
cheers
Paul
Paul Foley
Lightmoods P/L
PO Box 995
Spit Junction (Sydney)
NSW, Australia, 2088
Ph +61 2 99697018 Mobile 0412 683007
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