I bought X-Rite Color Passport Checker, read part of the documentation and watched some introduction video. It explained me how to create a profile for camera but it did not provide any answer to how many profiles I should create.
I generally took my camera, all my lenses, ND filters and CPL filters and tried to do profile in sunny conditions, in shadow, in interiors and with few lenses also when a common bulb is a light source. I didn't do it to keep all profiles but mostly to see differences when applying profiles to the same image.
Turns out:
The difference is usually very subtle. The biggest difference (and reason why I'm doing it in the first place) is against anything supported by Lightroom out of the box - again especially in blue which was washed out in "Adobe standard" profile.
Now I wonder how far should I go for just enthusiast usage? How many profiles do you use and what light conditions have you used for creating profiles?
I generally took my camera, all my lenses, ND filters and CPL filters and tried to do profile in sunny conditions, in shadow, in interiors and with few lenses also when a common bulb is a light source. I didn't do it to keep all profiles but mostly to see differences when applying profiles to the same image.
Turns out:
- Profiles for different lenses provide slightly different colors - that's what I expected
- Profiles for CPL filters (Hoya HD, B+W) and ND8 filter (Hoya) do not provide different colors to the profile for the same lens without the filter
- Profiles for ND64 (Hoya) filter provide slightly different colors to the profile for the same lens without the filter
- Profiles in different light conditions provide slightly different colors - I'm not sure what I expected here. I still don't see why there should be any differences if a white balance is a separate information and if there is really supposed to be a difference I would expect it to be much bigger
The difference is usually very subtle. The biggest difference (and reason why I'm doing it in the first place) is against anything supported by Lightroom out of the box - again especially in blue which was washed out in "Adobe standard" profile.
Now I wonder how far should I go for just enthusiast usage? How many profiles do you use and what light conditions have you used for creating profiles?