Michelle Pena

It’s only been that setting that has worked all these years.

I just finished calibrating my monitor and followed Damien's instructions. Brian, can you tell me if this is ok for iMac settings ? D50 -64 lum....Prints seem to match up ok..I don't know if it's just me looking at them too long but the prints look a slightly green and my screen slightly red? I don't think a client would see it but I do. I'll drag my results in. I use x rite i1display pro. I am at 2 bars on the brightness. Thank you for any help.

I moved the lamps beside me and about two feet away. Doing this the light is softer. I will edit with the one tick and send off for prints.

Also,should I keep the brightness at one tick after doing this? Thank you.

Ok,I will try to work with that re-arrange the room so that they can be placed beside me, hopefully that does not cause glare. They are directly in-front of me

Oh dear, I just wouldn’t have the time. I shoot during the day clean up and set up for next day. Somewhere in there I eat too lol here is a picture of the room. I thought I had sent one yesterday. Excuse the mess .

I don't have a room that is any different in color unfortunately .

I went ahead and started using one click down and I can still see the screen a bit. On another note,I had a client reach out to me and said her digitals are bright and if I can reduce the brightness. She's speaking only of the family part of the session not the newborn by herself. She is a very far person and dad and baby all had different skin tones. I explained to her if she printed them after I uped brightness her prints would be dark. What then ? LOL I'm just..... digitals are too bright but darkening them will darken prints. I'm about to pull my hair. I am taking the Raw class though !

OK I just changed all those things.

I understand this, even the whole brightness is changed one it's loaded on to ACR. I can have a brighter picture in camera and once its upload to ACR its way darker than what I shot it as.

I do shoot studio and I use a flashpoint Xplor strobe ad400 pro. No Alien bees and no Eisenstein either. This light is also a cool tone color.

It’s definitely the room, I have dark tones in it walls are a light beige. I did send one too you and Brian a while back . I’ll send another.

I can definitely try that tonight , lets See if I can see anything. There is also glare from the lights surrounding when it’s that low .

If I try that then I can’t see my screen and can’t see what I’m doing cause the. Screen is too dark :/

Colors are good brightness has been an issue for awhile. Prints compared to screen are darker. Ive compared prints from the past and even printed out some new ones and they are still darker compared to my screen. My screen is set to two clicks on an iMac when I edit and calibrated, I use these bulbs as recommended. I edit at night with these bulbs. The only time I can edit.

With brightness yes, I edit with 8 bright bulbs around me.

ok never mind ! I clicked on the wrong link.

Damien I signed up for the Raw class but while reading the the first section I remembered I took the bridge class , signed up again for the $6 refresher and I can't access it ? I guess it's past that time? I'd like to go over Bridge again as you mention before the Raw class. Thanks!

I will try the auto WB and see how that works out and take the Raw Class.I mostly use Sigma lenses and I wish it would give my images a warmer feel but I get a lot of cool tones. When using the AWB as you suggested , I don't need to set the green/magenta bar correct?

Yes, I've been needing to take this class for a while now, a long while now lol!

I do like the Adobe color for the D850 it seems to work better than the standard. Forget the other option vivid was just horrible. The standard did work for the D750 though. This camera I can't seem to understand it and I'm about to give up and go back to my D750. The D850 is defiantly a beast.

I've had my D850 for over a year now and I'm not loving the colors. I loved the colors on the D750 a lot better. I'm also finding the camera is contrasty. I guess my question is , is there anything I can do setting wise to improve color? I shoot kelvin between-5000 to 5600k, is this too cool for this camera? and the green /magenta bar I have set at 0.0. It seems to be ok for outdoor images but my indoor images with a strobe geez colors are so dull and having to do more editing than I did with the d750. I even recalibrated my iMac to make sure it needed to be calibrated but my iMac pretty stays the same when calibrated. Any suggestions? Not sure you can help if you don't shoot indoor strobe? Thanks!

Hello Brian, I've been receiving email from Calibrite about this color checker device, do you know about this and would I need it for the iMac ? Another question do you have a section here where I an ask questions about the D850? I have a question about the WB? Would it be under the gear talk section?

OK, so as you said, it's a bad batch. I think they need to warmed up though.Baby is so pale that when I up the warmth he looks kinda saturated LOL Thank you.

Yes I just didn't;t know if it would be accurate.