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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Colorchecker workflow: easy! 1Dx and 5D4 balanced | |
No issues with my color checker and my Nikon bodies with blues or over-saturation. My goal with PP is always to make the photo look the closest to what it did to my eyes at the time, and the Colorchecker has been my favorite tool in doing so.
If you don't like the profile, it's super easy to back off an individual color or put a few negative points on the saturation slider. I *think* you can even tweak the colorchecker profile yourself after the fact, but I have never had to do that so I am not sure.
Jeff Nolten wrote:
Thanks for the explanation Ralph. The 5D4 profile looks much improved. I usually just click through the camera profiles and pick what looks best. I don't do much stadium work with odd colored lights.
What is the impact of creating the profile under different lighting? I believe Arbitrage said he does his in the shade, outside? Would you create profiles for different conditions, sort of like using an Expodisc for a custom white balance?
You make a profile under every different lighting condition you want - each profile is specific to the scenario it is shot and created under. Most people would have the generic profiles made up (Sunlight, Shade, Overcast, etc.) and then a collection of other ones depending on where they end up shooting (certain light temperatures, stadium lighting, hockey arena, basketball court, flash, etc.). You can go one step further and make those profiles again for every one of your lenses, but I find the differences between lenses to be not noticeable most of the time.
For example if you were doing a portrait session, get the model to hold the colorchecker up to her face for the first shot, and then continue on afterwards as normal. At the end, you can perfect every photo's color in 1-2 clicks.
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