Ben Rubinstein
pro member
Hi,
We all of course have calibrated screens, work in controlled lighting, etc. Our screens are far from the general consumers.
However, many of us are presenting our work not as prints but for viewing on screen. Whether it be a wedding slideshow, a virtual tour for a potential buyer of a property, etc.
As a baseline I have always processed for print as default. In other words accurately. However given certain comments on my images by consumers I'm seriously thinking of building an action/preset and applying it to all 'web' images to bring it more in line with what a consumer will see as pleasing. Given that most consumer screens are heavily over bright/contrasty and very blue in colour this would 'correct' the true rendition to something darker and warmer so that it would be more pleasing.
I can't be the first who is looking to do this on a widespread basis, can anyone fill me in on what the industry is doing? Movies for example are presented based on a far brighter screen than print accurate in my experience. There must be an industry standard for this kind of thing, a default rendition that has been proven to be a good default relative to the consumer screen, not one of which is either accurate or indeed similar to the next one.
I'd be very interested in your thoughts.
We all of course have calibrated screens, work in controlled lighting, etc. Our screens are far from the general consumers.
However, many of us are presenting our work not as prints but for viewing on screen. Whether it be a wedding slideshow, a virtual tour for a potential buyer of a property, etc.
As a baseline I have always processed for print as default. In other words accurately. However given certain comments on my images by consumers I'm seriously thinking of building an action/preset and applying it to all 'web' images to bring it more in line with what a consumer will see as pleasing. Given that most consumer screens are heavily over bright/contrasty and very blue in colour this would 'correct' the true rendition to something darker and warmer so that it would be more pleasing.
I can't be the first who is looking to do this on a widespread basis, can anyone fill me in on what the industry is doing? Movies for example are presented based on a far brighter screen than print accurate in my experience. There must be an industry standard for this kind of thing, a default rendition that has been proven to be a good default relative to the consumer screen, not one of which is either accurate or indeed similar to the next one.
I'd be very interested in your thoughts.