achrysos
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- May 12, 2008
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I'm a bit worried about opening a can of worms here which will just add to my confusion, but here goes anyway.
There are two threads flowing through my mind. First is to use a consistent colour space in the camera and when editing/printing etc. In my case, my camera is set to give AdobeRGB 1998 and I set the export in LR to be the same.
Then there is the idea of calibrating the monitor to achieve that consistency between the various items in the photographic chain. For that I use Spyder2express. [Cheap I know, but it seems to do a decent job. But now that I have a dual monitor set up I will need to upgrade.... sorry for the aside!]
I am quite happy and fully understand the need for these. However, when I discovered that you could actually look at the colour spaces (using ColorSync Utility on a Mac) I decided to compare the two spaces (AdobeRGB and my colour calibrated monitor) and became confused..... The two are compared in the image below, the Adobe space being the gray box, and the much larger one, with my calibrated monitor space nicely snuggled up inside.
And so that is my confusion - how can my monitor properly represent the colours my camera captures and LR edits, if its space is so much smaller? If I set AdobeRGB as the profile for my monitor then it just looks ughh and seems to defeat the purpose of calibrating.
Sorry for the long post, but can anyone explain to me what I am not understanding here?
Thanks in advance!
There are two threads flowing through my mind. First is to use a consistent colour space in the camera and when editing/printing etc. In my case, my camera is set to give AdobeRGB 1998 and I set the export in LR to be the same.
Then there is the idea of calibrating the monitor to achieve that consistency between the various items in the photographic chain. For that I use Spyder2express. [Cheap I know, but it seems to do a decent job. But now that I have a dual monitor set up I will need to upgrade.... sorry for the aside!]
I am quite happy and fully understand the need for these. However, when I discovered that you could actually look at the colour spaces (using ColorSync Utility on a Mac) I decided to compare the two spaces (AdobeRGB and my colour calibrated monitor) and became confused..... The two are compared in the image below, the Adobe space being the gray box, and the much larger one, with my calibrated monitor space nicely snuggled up inside.
And so that is my confusion - how can my monitor properly represent the colours my camera captures and LR edits, if its space is so much smaller? If I set AdobeRGB as the profile for my monitor then it just looks ughh and seems to defeat the purpose of calibrating.
Sorry for the long post, but can anyone explain to me what I am not understanding here?
Thanks in advance!