X-Rite ColorChecker Passport

I've been meaning to get one of these for a while and it wasn't until my recent color calibration woes that I decided to actually get one of these. These go beyond white balance and provide custom camera profiles for every lighting condition. Now I've long seen a difference between the H3D and the D3 in their out-of-the-box color casts. The H3D exhibits a greenish tint whereas the D3 is colder and more bluish in hue. That doesn't bother me too much because all my files go through extensive color correction in Photoshop but for once.

But one day, I'm going to shoot with both cameras and really get upset that I'll have 2 separate sets of images that look like they were shot with different cameras.

Prints: My coffee table

Here's my coffee table as of this morning. There are more prints now since it's been hours since I've been up and at it. My goal now is to fine tune the color profiles for the Canon 9500 MkII but things are pretty close as is. I dunno. Judge for yourself. I think some of the skin tones are a little muted and slightly off but maybe my display is off and yours looks exactly like this?

Wait a sec, if you're viewing both the jpegs and then this image of the prints on the display, you'll just see the differences that I see albeit relatively so. LOL!

F-Stop Watch

Because we're all geeks at heart ;)

JustHost down... again.

For over 24 hours no email no website... nothin'

I had to submit a problem ticket via email before they were aware of the issue. But they resolved it immediately.

Why does this happen to begin with?

Knee deep in...

Yesterday Calumet LA had a vendor demo of lots of color important gear that photographers had. This was a great opportunity for me to query the experts on my non-matching prints.

Rewind.

I've been doing some printing at Costco. I've found that even with all my color calibration, my prints don't match my display(s). That's terribly frustrating.

Rorschach geometry

In creating these images, I was subtly reminded of Rorschach inkblot tests, to which I've never been subjected. I enjoyed doing this little exercise because the geometry in these images provide structure and is often at the heart of the sets that I create for my shoots. Why do the lines behave the way they do? Why are the walls placed the way they are? Why do the gradients fall the way they fall? Sometimes it's luck. Other times it's by design. Oddly, in structure and symmetry there's lots of randomness and chance. At least in my work.

I present to you some of the driving inspirations that randomize in my mind :)


Raina Hein and architecture. H3DII-31/HC-80mm. 1/350th f/9.5 ISO100


Margaux in the box. H3DII-31/80mm. 1/500th f/8.0 ISO100

Hasselblad H3DII-31: My take (a subjective review)

Old campaign poster from the release of the H3D-31 back in early 2007. Hasselblad launched the H3DII in September 2007

I take offense when people think they can differentiate between my images that are shot with the D3 and my images that are shot with the H3D? Why? Because it implies that there's something about the quality of these images that is intrinsically related to the camera and not the processing. Yes, I'm being hyper-sensitive :)

But I can't even tell which of my pictures were shot with the D3 or the H3D! I have to reference the EXIF data or my Lr organization.