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Adobe Lightroom - Develop Module - Camera Calibration
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There
are two approaches to take towards software Camera Calibration
of Digital Camera images.
1.
The scientific approach - which seems to be in favor with
most of today's generation of photographers, if their incredibly
detailed and convoluted posts on the popular digital camera
forums are to be believed. People who are in this camp want
their digital camera images to be absolutely perfect and true
to life. Good luck, I do not have a clue what you are talking
about and apparently do not live on the same planet you are
inhabiting.
2.
The artistic approach - which I tend to favor, not that I
consider myself to be an artist, but I like to think of photographic
images as representing a slice of time and no matter how much
we may want that slice of time to be perfect, it never really
is. So should each photograph be a perfect 10 in regards to
color temperature and tonality? I hope not, because that would
for sure not represent my perception of reality.
So
let's say that you are more of an artist than a scientist
when it comes to photography, why should you bother with the
Camera Calibrations in Adobe Lightroom. The reason is the
same as why you chose one film over another when you were
shooting with film cameras. Agfachrome gave you those earthy
tones, Ektachrome gave you cool but realistic colors that
were easy to calibrate, Kodachrome gave you a candy colored
world that just looked better than reality, and Fujichrome
gave satisfaction to someone but it sure wasn't me.
As
a photographic artist Camera Calibrations can help you to
set a mood or tone for a series of images by defining a set
of calibrations and making a Preset that will allow you in
one easy step to decide that this was a 'Kodachrome' type
of shoot. On another day you may be feeling kind of blue and
decide to give that particular set of images a more 'Ektrachrome'
type of look.
Camera
Calibration - Default image
A
Camera Calibration Preset that I made to give pictures that
hand tinted old postcard look. As you can see the color hues
were adjusted very slightly but all three Saturation sliders
were pushed to the maximum.
The
Nikon D200 has an in-camera setting for Extra Vivid (JPEG)
images that produces somewhat similar images to the oversaturated
image above.
More detailed Camera Calibration
information on the following pages.
42 - Camera Calibration - Shadows - Tint
43 - Camera Calibration - Red Primary - Hue
& Saturation
44 - Camera Calibration - Green Primary -
Hue & Saturation
45 - Camera Calibration - Blue Primary - Hue & Saturation
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in these articles ...... George
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