RoseandCharles wrote:
Colors are so subjective that I feel like you need multiple profiles for different uses. I have a more neutral profile for portraits and a more saturated profile for landscapes.
I use the Adobe Color profile as base and tweak my own profiles on that base.
Back in the days we had Velvia, Provia and Astia, there wasn’t any universally accepted “standard” either.....
drew.a wrote:
Camera Standard, Adobe Standard, and Adobe Color are all different. Adobe Color is a little more contrasty/saturated than Adobe Standard. The Camera profiles are all just terrible for some reason. The refreshed Adobe profiles are pretty solid starting points depending on you preferences.
How do I access Adobe color then? I don't have this option under Camera Calibration. Only Adobe Standard.
Can I add to this thread that I believe lenses also make a difference in colors. For example, adapting my Nikon glass, I get some of those Nikon colors which are a bit warmer. In fact I prefer the way Nikon glass looks as opposed to Sony lenses. Much of the color "science" of different systems is based on the combination of glass and image processing, though you can get some of that look by using different brand lenses.
GMPhotography wrote:
No question the glass in how it is made and coatings do effect color. Why certain brands might seem warmer or cooler
I totally understand that different manufacturers have different formulas for their glass and coatings but I have also come across tests that seem to suggest the camera's internal raw engine encoder/converter does a pretty good job in terms of normalizing the differences between different glasses.
Perhaps some cameras are doing a better job at normalizing than others?
Canon L lenses have a very specific colour signature. The way they handle the richness of the reds. Always been a fan. The Nikon pro lenses do the same thing with yellows.
That said I could never get canon facial colours to look natural in Adobe, they were great in C1 but in adobe, I just could never control them to look natural.
johnahill wrote:
With the colour checker do you shoot a test image at the start of every shoot, or just shoot once in daylight and use that for all daylight shots?
I do a custom WB calibration in the camera with the included grey card for each shoot. I've got profiles for each lens for sunny, overcast, incandescent, and LED (the last being specific to my flapjack lights) that I apply in post.
