Re: e: GRACoL: Very surprised at how c100 m100 is displayed...
Re: e: GRACoL: Very surprised at how c100 m100 is displayed...
- Subject: Re: e: GRACoL: Very surprised at how c100 m100 is displayed...
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:17:54 -0700
On 2010 Apr 29, at 8:52 AM, Martin Weberg wrote:
> However,
> the graphic industry has decided upon a set of standards. For good
> reasons.
Certainly -- I'm not arguing against standards in the slightest. I'm typing this in a room with walls and a desk painted D50 Lab: 67.553190 -0.516370 0.206358. I can pull the blinds to block out all external light and grab my 5000K SoLux and have a damned-close-to-standards-complient work area in a matter of seconds.
I just find it frustrating that I might produce a fantastic print that looks great in my studio...only to have it hung on a wall in a room with miserable lighting.
Several months ago after having dinner at my parents' place, my mom complained that the pictures in the National Geographic she was reading looked too dark and didn't have much shadow detail. She was, yes, reading it by the light of a cheap CFL. And she was right: the pictures *were* dark and the shadows *were* blocked.
But viewed by window light another day, the pictures were fantastic. Of course.
In many ways, it's the last link in the entire chain that's most important, and it's the one we have absolutely no control over whatsoever.
It'd be really nice to have some sort of control over it...but, then again, it'd be nice to have a pony, too.
Yeah, I know. You can make, and I have made, prints with a profile with a custom illuminant. It's black magic that I don't quite believe, but it sure works...until the print gets moved somewhere else, or the lightbulbs get changed, or somebody opens the blinds, or....
Cheers,
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