[Leica] Breakfast - I figured it out!!

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Tina Manley said:

> I was going back over the steps for converting the color profiles and 
> realized that I was assigning the sRGB without first converting the 
> ProPhoto profile to sRGB.  They look much better now - at least on my 
> monitor.  They almost match the original files.

Now dear lady a simple question.

Let's say you had shot this material JPEG and just down loaded straight to 
computer, clicked on auto everything, levels etc., (well I still don't have 
a clue about RAW, so be it) and I realize there are advantages if one does. 
But that still entails a bunch of extra work on the original work as I 
understand.

But a straight down load without the extra fiddling..... "Would you have run 
into this kind of.... the colour is off comments from others?".....

Would a simple straight down load have given you the results as you 
say...... "They look much better now - at least on my monitor.  They almost 
match the original files."

You see I'm still having a very hard time getting around all this extra 
"computer screen in my face time" that takes away from shooting time when it 
happens.

Simply because when I read what you've said and others have commented on the 
colour, I just don't understand why bother with the extra time at the 
screen. Like this goes way beyond working in the darkroom!

When I shoot a basketball game in a high school gym in JPEG, down load and 
do the levels, contrast and colour on auto and they come out smashingly 
great for a 20D, available almost no light at 3200! I really have to wonder 
what the hell am I doing wrong because I'm not shooting RAW for one and the 
other corrections etc. that it seems everyone else is going through?

But then everyone who's seen the pictures are blown away with the quality, 
sharpness, colour, never mind the brilliant action moment. ;-) (a little 
plug.) Once again, is all this extra work in the face of the screen 
absolutely necessary beyond fixing a some what screw-up during shooting when 
an exposure or light goes crazy?

Man I know some folks must begin to think I'm an idiot for this time after 
time, but I'm looking at the results I get against how much better would 
this photograph be if I did all the other fixin' some folks go through?

ted