Aperture

Images and Commentary from Shayna and Ted

1. Mike Schiffer 1.6.10 / 7am

   You might want to experiment with different RAW converters: the consensus the last time I looked into it was that Canon’s Digital Photo Professional did better color conversions on Canon cameras than Adobe’s products, though it’s clunkier and less flexible than Lightroom. (You can probably find comparisons including those and a couple of other products on dpreview.com.) If you haven’t already, you might also want to try varying the noise reduction settings in either Lightroom or DPP, since that’s often where loss of detail happens.
2. Ted Cabeen 1.6.10 / 9am

   The thing is, it’s not the RAW conversion, as the color difference is between Lightroom and JPGs exported from Lightroom and posted on the web. I think some of the changes come from color space differences, as Lightroom usually works in ProPhoto RGB, and images on the web are always sRGB. Also, there is some color change and sharpening done when I export to JPG from lightroom, so that’s probably also a factor.

   Finally, not every monitor is calibrated, and on my laptop, it sometimes struggles with having dual monitors with different profiles in Windows 7.
3. Mike Schiffer 1.6.10 / 9am

   The color space issue is always tricky. I do everything in sRGB, since the number of prints I make is so small relative to web posting that it doesn’t make sense for me to optimize for a color range no one will see. But of course that means I’m working within a narrower color gamut than I could. (Especially since I have a wide-gamut monitor now, which probably doesn’t calibrate perfectly to sRGB anyway. :-) ) The existence of different color spaces in use takes away a lot of the consistency that calibration is supposed to help with.

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