Re: maclife.de
Re: maclife.de
- Subject: Re: maclife.de
- From: Bob Marchant <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:06:53 +0100
On 2 Sep 2008, at 22:42, MARK SEGAL wrote:
Edmund,
I haven't tried to do it (because the only time I tried using Canon
DPP I found it so limited and limiting that I deleted it from my
hard drive), but there is little doubt in my mind that I could use
the latest versions of LR or ACR to create any "look" I wanted.
Some of those camera guys are poor - at creating raw processing
software.
Mark
Hi Mark and all.
Going to stick my head above the parapet and risk being shot at from
several quarters ,
There seems to be some confusion here between getting "a look" ,
being "creative" with colour and striving for colour accuracy .
Working mostly in the obsessive compulsive end of the market ( colour
critical advertising work ) , IMHO a good camera profile is without
a doubt the best starting point for our workflow. For the high res
colour critical stuff we use Sinar camera backs and their
proprietary software ( the many versions of which are not without
their own foibles when it comes to CM).
We don't build profiles for each lighting set up , because that would
be counter productive.. The base profiles are made for flash and
tungsten , using a "reference " light source in each instance , and
the lengthiest part of the process is selecting the light source and
lighting the target.
Now I may be falling victim to sales hype , platform snobbery or
having slightly ( very slightly :-) ) premature senior moments , but
I believe that the camera back system and software we use is a
little purer in it's functions than that of the various Canons that
we use for some of our lifestyle and chase photography. With the
Canons , there seems to be an awful lot more stuff happening to the
"Raw" file before we can get our hands on it than with the Sinar.
However ,my colleague in the business would still argue that there is
a distinct advantage in profiling the DSLRs.
None of this is meant to detract from the enormously powerful ACR .
We use that too for specific reasons , mostly for processing
lifestyle and landscape type images from the Canons and for "looks" .
But then again , we also build some camera profiles specifically
for looks .
So ...bit of a ramble , but what it comes down to is that there is no
"one size fits all" solution in our business , which is by it's
nature diverse. Don't know about the rest of you , but I prefer to
have a good number of tools in the box when it comes to commissions ,
and to able to use each to it's best advantage.
Regards,
Bob Marchant.
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