http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints There is no such thing as a great print straight from the camera. Fri, 30 May 2008 04:58:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two years after I posted it, the original SmugMug alters my colors! entry gets lots of passionate comments from smart people. Problem is, we changed and so did browsers in the last two years. By customer demand, we now attach ICC profiles to the photos we display if we sense that you're ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2008/05/29/smugmug-alters-my-colors-updated/ 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 ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2007/01/03/but-it-didnt-look-dark-on-my-monitor/ 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 ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2005/10/05/wedding-dress-blues/ 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. ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2005/07/25/the-dark-side-of-digital-cameras/ Apple is The King of Simplicity, except when it comes to the simple job of displaying photos on the Internet. It was actually Microsoft and HP who came up with a very simple idea: let's use the same box of crayons for all photos on the Internet. And since we ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2005/06/27/mac-browsers-can-you-believe-your-eyes/ If I say scouting report, you get what I mean fast. A scouting report on a baseball pitcher tells you how fast he throws, which way his curveball curves... Simple. When I say ICC profile, your eyes glaze and you click over to CNN. But it's just a scouting ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2005/06/25/why-icc-profiles-dont-fly-on-the-internet/ Hell hath no fury like a photographer who believes smugmug altered their colors. Imagine the frustration: you carefully adjust your photo until it's perfect, only to post on smugmug and have it look bad. Here's an example: the right and left images, below, are the exact same copy ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2005/06/25/smugmug-alters-my-colors/ 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 ... http://blogs.smugmug.com/great-prints/2005/06/24/the-sweetness-that-is-i2e/