A back and forth Twitter conversation with Paul Butzi over who was more obsessive (he balances display spots with an incident meter, I used to color balance dual slide projectors with a color meter) got me thinking about this latest craze of mine to properly prepare the wedding photos from last weekend. “Are they going to notice?” Robin asked, knowing, of course, what my answer would be. “I will,” I said.
Once I ran all the RAW1 shots from the Mark II through the kludgy Canon raw processer, I had to reconcile the different look with the shots from the second camera body, the old Canon 5D, which looked great. But different great. Canon read and processed the files fine, but I was absent a lot of the fine grained controls that I'm used to in Adobe Raw Converter. So I ran the batch again, through Adobe, as jpgs, and set black points and color temps to a closer match. You can see above where I started, and where I was aiming for.
Thanks to all the suggestions for alternative RAW processers. I looked at them all, and decided I had invested enough brain time into mastering Canon's (which, because it can't do much, isn't so hard). It's amazing how much variety is out there, and how stuck we're going to be when a particular company that makes our favorite app disappears. It brings home the point, again, how fugitive photography is now compared to the days of silver and dye.
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