Anyone know of a San Diego based color technician?

[marissa_c._boucher]

I'm so tired of spending time trying to get accurate, consistent color

processing of my studio's images that I'm simply ready to pay someone to come

in, calibrate everything, and get it dialed in.

 

Does anyone know of a technician for hire or someone I could literally have

come to my studio and dial in my color workflow?

 

I have done all the Bruce Fraser, Chromoholics, and the like calibrating

scripts and 24 patch gretagmacbeth cards, etc and I'm still not satisfied with

the results.

 

From portrait shoots to weddings, the lighting scenarios combined with 3

different canon cameras is just making working in Adobe Camera Raw a mess with

all the white balancing and camera calibration presets. I need to speed up my

workflow and this is where it's bottlenecking right now.

 

I'm getting much better results than before but I'm still noticing things where

the color is still off and I can't figure out why. I know I'm leaving out a lot

of information but if anyone knows of anyone who may do something like this

please do let me know.

 

 

 

Thanks!

Weston

[ellis_vener_photography]

the problem is Marissa that unless all of the photogrpahs are taken under the exact same condition you can either one of two things: get it close enough or nitpick each and every picture. Me, I do the former even though at this point I'm pretty much on top of the color management wave and have been known to do the latter.

 

if you aren't doing this already, One thing to do in Lightroom to speed things up is to select all of the similar images , white or color balance one to your satisfaction and then sync those settings to all of the similars in that take.

 

The Fors calibration script for Chromaholics is useful for setting a baseline for a specific camera. but once you are there, you need to color balance for specific lighting conditions.

[marissa_c._boucher]

Hi Ellis,

 

I simply need someone who specializes in calibrating digital color so I can have as best of a foundation to work off of for my color processing. I don't mind messing with photos individually if I have to. But my foundation just isn't working for me right now and I simply don't have any more time to dedicate to this. I'm sick of being behind a computer instead of a camera! haha.

 

Thanks for the info though. I'm definitely making use of syncing photos but there's specific issues with my calibrated results that I can't make sense of.

 

For example, my ACR presets for let's say "5D_Tungsten" completely oversaturates my reds. If someone is wearing a red shirt it completely saturates it beyond detail.

 

I'm wondering if I need to run the ACRcalibrator script again but I know I did it correct the first time.