Profiling services - scanner, monitor, and printer

I've booked Replica Imaging LTD to come out and calibrate/profile my input and output devices -i.e. my scanner, monitor, and printer.

I've just moved house, and whilst it's good practice to have professional gear calibrated regularly, I felt that moving the stuff around - it was worth having it all checked.

Replica Imaging are based in Nottingham.

Landscape Photographer Of The Year competition.

Interested in winning up to £10,000 ?

Then why not enter the 'Landscape Photographer of the Year' competition.

Sponsored by CALUMET PHOTO.

Good luck, if you decide to enter!

Facebook page

I now have a page on Facebook, so if you're on Facebook, you could add me, if you wish.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Batterham/89510983673?ref=nf

Thrumpton Hall - John & Kate's pre wedding visit

I paid a second visit, with John & Kate, to Thrumpton Hall.

I am photographing their wedding there very soon. Preparation is vital, so I like to visit at least once with the bride and groom, to discuss where the photographs will take place, etc.

Adobe Camera Profiles for Lightroom part.2

I have a few tricky images, which I use to test out various gadgets, and software.

The images below are generated from one tricky RAW file, I've always had trouble with the reds of these red flowers.

I used the new Adobe beta Camera Profiles to revisit this RAW file, and see if I could process it better, using the new profiles.

The problems I'd experienced were, the reds just blowing out, showing no colour graduation, or the red shifted to pink or orange.

The image on the left is an unprocessed RAW using the previous old profile (ACR 4.4), and the image on the right is using one of the new Camera Profiles (camera faithful beta 2).

It is immediately apparent that the new profile is better, as the red contains detail and much more could be made of this image - given further processing.

Adobe Camera Profiles for Lightroom

I've downloaded Beta versions of camera profiles for use in Adobe Lightroom. These Beta profiles are intended to manage how Lightroom interprets the Raw data into the Lightroom colour space. The profiles are intended to be more faithful to the camera manufacturers' intended 'look' for the images.

Potentially, it all sounds good in theory, and gives a good base point from which to start developing your images in Lightroom.

I'll be using these profiles in my remaster project, so I'll revisit my shots taken on a Canon EOS 10D from 2004, and see how I go !

I'll keep you updated on how it goes.

Wedding Remastering Project continues

I continue to make strides with my remastering of wedding photographs.

I'm taking all images from 2004 onwards, and first of all, creating new master TIFF files.

Thankfully, I had the foresight to shoot RAW files right from day one ! This has meant that, as software has become more sophisticated, I have been able to extract more detail, better colours, and overall richer images from my original RAWs.

The master TIFFs have then been treated further, with a variety of plug-ins, including a range from NIK Software.