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Eyeballing some expressive color processing, part 2

July 29, 2021 JimK Leave a Comment

In the last post, I showed you two images developed in Lightroom with different color profiles and presets. I got a few comments about the white balance. In the previous post, I set the white balance by eye for the Adobe color image, and left it at the same place for the others, with the exception of the custom open shade profile that I created using Lumariver, which, since it was developed for light with a blue cast to it, was way too yellow. I brought that back towards the color balance of the Adobe Color image by eye.

That wasn’t very satisfying, on either an intellectual or an esthetic level. The high road would be including a gray card in the image, and white balancing all the images to the card. I couldn’t so that without finding a model, setting up, and shooting new images, so I came up with a compromise. I found a nearly-neutral area in the image with about the luminance of an 18% gray card, white balanced to it, and gave the image one Lightroom click bluer in color temperature to compensate for the slightly blue cast of the area I was white balancing to.

While I was at it, I added a bunch of profiles, including some Cobalt film simulations and the Adobe/Fuji Astia and Provia ones. I tried a lot mode profiles, and I’m not showing you the ones that I thought were really terrible.

Here’s what resulted.

I’ll start out with the three profiles with some pretentions with respect to accuracy.

Adobe Color

 

Cobalt Standard

 

Custom Open Shade

 

Color Fidelity GFX 100S Neutral V3

 

Color Fidelity GFX 100S Medium V3

 

Color Fidelity GFX 100S Portrait V3

 

Color Fidelity GFX 100S Standard V3

 

Now the treatments that are designed with only pleasing color in mind.

Adobe Portrait

 

Adobe/Fuji Astia Soft

 

Adobe/Fuji Provia Standard

 

Cobalt Fuji Pro 160 Standard Curve

 

Cobalt Kodak Ektar 100 Flat Curve

 

Cobalt Kodak Protra 160 Standard Curve

 

Cobalt Kodachrome last roll Dark Flat Curve

 

Adobe Vintage 04

 

Adobe./Fuji Pro Neg Std

 

And the two presets:

Mastin 400H

 

Mastin 160NS

 

 

 

 

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