The great news about monitors is they keep getting brighter. But the brighter they become, the more people are disappointed by dark prints.
Dark prints are now the #1 reason prints are returned:
The problem is, the brighter the monitor, the more dark shots look normal. But while monitors get brighter each year, prints never [...]
Most wedding dresses have anti-stain coatings that are fluorescent — meaning they glow blue when you shine UV light on them.
Unfortunately, most flashes emit UV unless you place a filter over their heads. Using the Canon EX550 flash for fill made this dress blue where the flash hit it hardest:
Some photographers have a photoshop [...]
I don’t know why this isn’t mentioned in books and forums, but we certainly see it often with even the best digital cameras.
In shots taken with on-board flash, the poor fair-skinned caucasian with little skin pigment, a redish complexion, or blemishes goes nuclear:
Neither your eye nor film sees near-infrared light. But common in-camera and [...]
When you think industrial-strength color correction, you think…Photoshop.
Trouble is: time. It takes for-EVAH to get decent color correction with Photoshop. That’s okay for landscape photographers, but what event photographers have the time to Photoshop 500 photos?
And face it: Photoshop’s autocolor is a joke.
Enter i2e, the program I use for 90% [...]
