I’ve been out of the underwater photography game for a decade now, so it doesn’t happen very often anymore. But people who knew about my hobby used to come up to me at parties or corner me at some tropical resort and ask the question. Or sometimes people on dive boats, inexplicably undeterred by watching… [Read More]

This is the 33rd in a series of posts on color reproduction. The series starts here. There are a few loose ends in this Macbeth chart analysis work. One is: does the color space used to export the test image from the raw developer make a difference?  We already know that it does in the… [Read More]

This is the 32nd in a series of posts on color reproduction. The series starts here. It’s been a long, long road, but I’m finally ready to address the question that started this serial discourse on color reproduction, to wit: “What are the differences between Capture 1 and Lightroom default color conversions of Sony a7RII… [Read More]

Yesterday and today, I developed a few color images of the hills near my house.from exposures made in the past two weeks.  

This is the 31st in a series of posts on color reproduction. The series starts here. We have seen that, with nonlinear profiles, Macbeth color accuracy can be affected by exposure. The purpose of this post is to explore the utility of the automatic exposure systems that are built into modern cameras as a tool… [Read More]