"Lightroom doesn’t yet have a color profile for the SL, so any SL image we see on the web right now (that was converted
from DNG) will show some inaccurate colors. The SL sensor is similar to the one used in the Leica Q, a camera with good
color rendering, so I think color from the SL should be good once it is profiled by LR and other converters." Sean Reid
on LL
On 11/27/2015 9:42 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
I'm hitting Auto in LR for the color balance. On most it seems to add a
little yellow and a little magenta to the original file but an almost
unnoticeable shift to me.
I can understand why you do this, with an endless sea of images to process into an endless stream for stock. I still
think it's bad practice. Auto Color has to make guesses about subject. It may nail one image and miss badly on another.
Worse, though, to me, is when it misses slightly, and makes an image slightly off, in a way that can be hard to pin down.
Perhaps a profile in ACR/LR will cure most of the ills, and allow skipping the Auto Color step. I'm with Bob; if the
color looks off, I'll try one or more of the standard WB settings. But then I sometimes choose something in between.
Another reason I don't much like Auto Color is that it attempts to create color as if the subject is in mid-day
daylight. There are times and subjects for which this is appropriate, and far the best solution for them is to shoot a
color reference (I use a WhiBal that lives in my wallet), rather than any Auto WB/Color, but I generally like WB that
includes the effect of the light in which the subject was taken.
Although you've taken a gazillion color images, it seems to me that you are still, at heart, a monochrome photographer,
and tend to see color as a distraction to be dealt with as expeditiously as possible. It seems to me, looking at so many
of your color images, to do at least a slight disservice to your subjects and viewers.
Just the perspective/experience of one photographer who is obsessed with the qualities of the relative few images he
chooses to process and display. I'd rather make one great image than 1,000 perfectly OK ones.
One of Many Moose
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