These photographers rarely work with a lab, and when they do it’s to produce fine art prints - where no amount of monitor calibration will replace proofing, though it might help a bit with the first proof.
I travel ultralight and educate traveling photographers on how to leave gear behind. I am a digital nomad and fine art landscape photographer. Would I have purchased the Spyder otherwise? Probably not, but not because the Spyder doesn’t do its job well: it does its job too well, and I’m simply not the target user. The Spyder’s strength highlights just how niche monitor calibration tends to be, especially for digital freelancers like myself.
That is, not until I upgrade to a new laptop.
As before, my screen was calibrated a little warmer, pinker and less contrasty: Apple’s displays are well calibrated from the factory, but always tend to be overly blue and green and crush shadows.Īnd now that I’m calibrated, I have to be honest: I’ll probably never pull this sensor out again.
Since the older Spyders, the software has gotten much less clunky and more Mac-ish. The calibration process was uneventful - it took 10 minutes from opening the box till my screen was calibrated, and the actual calibration process took 60 seconds. It’s been a couple years since working with a lab, but now that I’m working from a newer MacBook, it seemed about time to recalibrate. Calibrating with the SpyderX EliteĪ few weeks ago, the awesome folks at DataColor reached out and asked if I’d like to take the new SpyderX Elite for a spin. For commercial wedding work? You’d be exceptional to order a proof at all. When you are producing one-of-a-kind fine art prints, four proofs isn’t unusual. Stunning, and still a bit different from the screen version. A week later I received the reproof: still off.įour proofs later, I got the final 36 by 24 inch print. A few days later I received the proof: not even close. I painstakingly tweaked a 10,800 by 7,200 pixel shot of Italy’s Sella Towers on my calibrated monitor to send to a prestigious lab in North Carolina. The photos still came out a bit dark and inky, but the color temperature was spot on.įast forward to my first metal print. That’s a pretty common result of going to print with an uncalibrated monitor.īy the next batch, I had borrowed a Spyder sensor from work and calibrated my monitor, tweaked the photos a bit, and sent them off to the lab.
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