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Hi,
I'm a newbie on here so I hope you'll be gentle....
I've been using Lightroom 4 for several months now, on a 2009 iMac, shooting RAW on a Canon 5D mk2 with various glass attached, and no matter what I alter - I am having to brighten almost every shot, and quite a lot.
I have followed all sorts of advice online regarding colour correction on the iMac, as well as including simple things like turning down the brightness on the screen and changing my work area to a constant light using daylight bulbs and drawn curtains. I have reset all settings on LR4 that I can find as well as all settings in camera too.
I'm starting to tear my hair out......
I know that the LCD on the camera isn't to be taken as an accurate representation of brightness, indeed I've turned that down a bit too... but even various test shots undertaken in normal daylight outdoors in Auto mode are looking too dark on the Mac screen.
I'm aware that the iMac screens show creamy whites in Black & White a little whiter than on a non-Mac (particularly obvious in my wedding photography where I use various creamy black&white effects), but I just have to allow for this whilst processing. But it's the darkness I can't rectify.
An example of this is finishing a shot to perfection and then exporting it and viewing on a PC / TV screen / etc and finding it at least a half stop too dark.
I keep thinking it's my setup, but I have PP's various phots using one of the LR4 presets without tweaking, and had the same result. Fine on my Mac, too creamy and dark everywhere else.
Is it my 5D, is it my Mac, is it LR4 or is there something I've missed.....?
All and any advice greatly received, thanks.
Matt
:bang:
I'm a newbie on here so I hope you'll be gentle....
I've been using Lightroom 4 for several months now, on a 2009 iMac, shooting RAW on a Canon 5D mk2 with various glass attached, and no matter what I alter - I am having to brighten almost every shot, and quite a lot.
I have followed all sorts of advice online regarding colour correction on the iMac, as well as including simple things like turning down the brightness on the screen and changing my work area to a constant light using daylight bulbs and drawn curtains. I have reset all settings on LR4 that I can find as well as all settings in camera too.
I'm starting to tear my hair out......
I know that the LCD on the camera isn't to be taken as an accurate representation of brightness, indeed I've turned that down a bit too... but even various test shots undertaken in normal daylight outdoors in Auto mode are looking too dark on the Mac screen.
I'm aware that the iMac screens show creamy whites in Black & White a little whiter than on a non-Mac (particularly obvious in my wedding photography where I use various creamy black&white effects), but I just have to allow for this whilst processing. But it's the darkness I can't rectify.
An example of this is finishing a shot to perfection and then exporting it and viewing on a PC / TV screen / etc and finding it at least a half stop too dark.
I keep thinking it's my setup, but I have PP's various phots using one of the LR4 presets without tweaking, and had the same result. Fine on my Mac, too creamy and dark everywhere else.
Is it my 5D, is it my Mac, is it LR4 or is there something I've missed.....?
All and any advice greatly received, thanks.
Matt
:bang: