Photography: Prophoto RGB and JPGS
- Irem Bray, (copyright Jeremy Maxwell)
Some years ago Adobe realized that the Standard RGB, which is the default for most compact digital cameras, imposed some limitations of the depth and range of colour and tone required by serious photographers. As a result they created Adobe RGB that is less restrictive.
Then enter Prophoto RGB a newish kid on the block with even more range than either sRGB or Adobe RGB. Adobe rapidly adopted Prophoto RGB as the default gammut for Photoshop Lightroom and made it available in Adobe Photoshop.
The problem with it is that when you use the default Photoshop converter to make web images the colours change and look washed out. So what’s a chap to do??
The simplest solution is simply to copy your Prophoto RGB file, create a new file in photoshop setting sRGB, (8 bit), as the colour space and then paste the Prophoto RGB onto it. Most of the tones are retained and the image may now be saved as JPG for general use..
October 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Bring back Kodachrome 25 ASA, it’s getting far too technical, photography should fun, not a science ?
Although we couldn’t develop it ourselves, at least we had a format ( I know it’s a bad term) that we could play with it in the darkroom.
Sorry, I am still a film man, there is just something about it’s quality, that you just don’t get with a digital, or maybe I am just getting old now?
Or perhaps it’s just the feel of the camera and the time it takes to achieve the results, having said that whatever happened to “penfriends” now that we have Facebook and emails?
October 19th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Good luck if you can find someone to process your Kodachrome 25!
I had a somewhat similar discussion with someone about cars recently. They’re too complicated, I claimed, you can’t repair them yourself.
To which my interlocutor replied: ‘but modern cars are more reliable’.
But here’s a question for you.
When did you last expose a reel of film, or write with a fountain pen and ink?
I claim this year for both
October 20th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
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