Photographic Society of RI

Improve Your Digital Workflow with A.Cemal Ekin

Dennis Goulet — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:18:39 +0000

PSRI has been blessed to have Cemal Ekin as a member who shares his in depth knowledge of digital workflow, Lightroom and Photoshop by virtue of presentations and workshops at the club. He is now offering private tutorials in Lightroom and Photoshop. His approach is to customize training to suit your current skill level, equipment, and software and the techniques you wish to master. According to your needs he will also include a session at your location using your equipment to help you better understand how to use the tools you have, and to offer advice on improving how you work on digital files in your environment. Learn more of his thoughts and offering HERE.

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A New Magazine …

A. Cemal Ekin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:50:53 +0000

… and, it is free! Published by the Nielsen Photo Group (publishers of PDN and Rangefinder) has introduced PIX, The Photographer’s Field Guide, and online magazine. The premier issue is available for viewing and for the time being it is free. There is plenty of gear information along with some interesting photography. Take a look at it, the price is right.

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Hunt’s Seminars

A. Cemal Ekin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:29:48 +0000

Provided by Hunt’s Photo and Video

The annual Hunt’s show is approaching November 4-6, 2011and we are offering three days of great educational seminars! For more information and to register for classes please visit link below or call 781.662.8822 to speak to any of our highly trained sales associates. Hope to see you there!

Learn more about Hunt’s Seminars on their Web site with full program information.

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On Color

A. Cemal Ekin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:22:57 +0000

Color representation and accuracy is one of the most important subjects in photography. Lately, we have had a series of conversations regarding color, more specifically color rendering differences between our displays and how the images may display when projected at the club, or on a friend’s computer. The solution to this is to use a consistent color-managed workflow using properly calibrated and profiled displays and projectors.

I am adding a couple of standard images here for anyone to try out on their monitors and compare them to what is displayed at the club on the projected screen. Keep in mind that there will always be subtle and slight differences between projected images and the images on the display monitor. One is an image formed by light reflecting from the projection screen, the other by light emitted from the display monitor.

The first image is from PhotoDisk and there are two versions. One is a TIFF file in Adobe RGB color space and the other a JPEG file in sRGB color space. If the software you use to display these image on your computer is not color space aware, the TIFF file in Adobe RGB will look duller. The other image, the JPEG file should display accurately on most, if not all, displays because most of them use sRGB as default, the high end displays notwithstanding. Do not use the images that display in the browser window, they are too small for evaluation. Download this ZIP file that has all three in large sizes.

PDI-Target in Adobe RGB

PDI-Target in sRGB

The “overall look” should be natural with whites, grays, and other colors represented. The Gretag and Heidelberg targets should be quite useful in evaluating your display quality. The gray scale ramps on both should be clean and on a well calibrated monitor you should see the entire 22 patches on the Heidelberg target, I see every single one as a distinct shade on my monitor. The entire 19 scale of the Kodak target is also visible on my display. Do not assume the values of colors based on your expectations. For instance, “red” is not necessarily, and indeed is not, 255-0-0 in R-G-B values.

Fuji FrontierColor in sRGB

The third image if from Fuji FrontierColor printer systems. It too includes color patches and also skin tones, white porcelain, blue sky, etc. This image too should look natural on your screen, especially the white porcelain sets on the lower squares.

Remember, this is only a subjective, touchy-feely assessment and does not constitute a color managed workflow. The more our members move to the color managed workflow, proper calibration and profiling of their displays, using photo grade monitors, etc. the better the results will be for all of us.

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