I recently worked on a fashion photoshoot and after getting the images back on the computer I was really unhappy with the colours I was seeing from any of the Adobe color profiles for the R5. I was using tungsten lights for the shoot and the 'Adobe Color' profile was behaving really strangely. Pink shadows, yellow highlights and the models makeup also took on a strange hue that wasn't visible to the naked eye when shooting.
By contrast, everything looked great in Canon's DPP4, but having to export TIFFs for every image was going to seriously eat into hard drive space and take way too long (a couple of minutes per image, is just far too long to be practical). Unfortunately with DPP4 I also noticed that the files had less fine detail than with Adobe Camera Raw. And applying any sharpening to the files in the DPP4 just made them look terrible. So all in all, DPP was ruled out as an option.
So with that said, I decided to go ahead and purchase the Color Fidelity (CF) profiles in the hope I could still use Adobe Camera Raw to process my raw files. So far I have been very happy with the results! The 'Standard V3' profile from CF is definitely the best of the bunch. The pink in the shadows is gone and the tones of the highlights on skin now match the darker areas quite well. The makeup on the models skin also now looked seamless with no strange hues. Overall the results are really very close to the 'Standard' profile that is available in DPP4. SO much better than the 'Adobe Color' profiles... these CF profiles have saved my workflow!
My only criticism of the CF profiles is that the 'Neutral V3' profile needs work. Highlights have a pink/magenta shift and the colors in general are just noticeably different to those found in the DPP4 'Neutral' profile. I generally prefer the flatter look of DPP's 'Neutral' so I am hoping the CF 'Neutral v3' is improved in the future, so I can use that instead of 'Standard'. Still, overall, a very minor criticism.
If you're planning to keep using Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw with the R5, I would say these CF profiles are a must. Personally they are going to save me hours of work in post by giving me a much better starting point with my images, and faster processing times than with DPP4.
Once I've finished with the images from the fashion shoot, I will post up an example of how much better the skin tones look with the CF profiles compared to 'Adobe Color'.
Cheers!
Chris
By contrast, everything looked great in Canon's DPP4, but having to export TIFFs for every image was going to seriously eat into hard drive space and take way too long (a couple of minutes per image, is just far too long to be practical). Unfortunately with DPP4 I also noticed that the files had less fine detail than with Adobe Camera Raw. And applying any sharpening to the files in the DPP4 just made them look terrible. So all in all, DPP was ruled out as an option.
So with that said, I decided to go ahead and purchase the Color Fidelity (CF) profiles in the hope I could still use Adobe Camera Raw to process my raw files. So far I have been very happy with the results! The 'Standard V3' profile from CF is definitely the best of the bunch. The pink in the shadows is gone and the tones of the highlights on skin now match the darker areas quite well. The makeup on the models skin also now looked seamless with no strange hues. Overall the results are really very close to the 'Standard' profile that is available in DPP4. SO much better than the 'Adobe Color' profiles... these CF profiles have saved my workflow!
My only criticism of the CF profiles is that the 'Neutral V3' profile needs work. Highlights have a pink/magenta shift and the colors in general are just noticeably different to those found in the DPP4 'Neutral' profile. I generally prefer the flatter look of DPP's 'Neutral' so I am hoping the CF 'Neutral v3' is improved in the future, so I can use that instead of 'Standard'. Still, overall, a very minor criticism.
If you're planning to keep using Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw with the R5, I would say these CF profiles are a must. Personally they are going to save me hours of work in post by giving me a much better starting point with my images, and faster processing times than with DPP4.
Once I've finished with the images from the fashion shoot, I will post up an example of how much better the skin tones look with the CF profiles compared to 'Adobe Color'.
Cheers!
Chris