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Originally Posted by bm bradley
Dave it was pointed out to me that 99.99% of people, including clients, use factory default on their monitors. even though I have color corrected monitors AND over 10 years worth of content to look at online I really don't get to worked up about it. if your monitor was off, it must have been off by a giant redhot motherfucker for you to get fired. just saying is all...
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It was big time off. As a result another photog was chosen for a particular project(4 years ago). When I did actually use pro equipment to color calibrate my monitor, I was like WTF?? When I was properly calibrated I went back and looked at some of my pics that I shot earlier and I was like; "These suck!"
I am definitely my own worst critic.
You are right about most monitors being off, but thats no excuse for mine to be off. I am a firm believer that you need to see what is correct in your monitor before you can make any type of color corrections to any photos or video.
Since then I have become a color stickler. My monitor gets calibrated once a month, I have camera color profiles I make for every lighting condition and I use the mcbeth color chart that I posted above.
I have a friend of mine who gets paid big bucks to color calibrate monitors for "Hollywood" and for a few big Photogs. I had no idea color was so detailed and such a big business. He educated me and point me in the right direction for anything and everything color.
Paranoid? Maybe, but I hate loosing and I will be damned if its because my color is off next time.
