Originally Posted by JustDaveXxx

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.