[s-cars] OMG - Audi Paint Picker Smokes Dope (NUrSC)

[Cory Pio]

How do you compensate color/light for different eyes and brains?

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On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:20 PM,  <dbkase at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just like me then, doesn't photograph well, but simply stunning in  
>> the
>> flesh...
>
> That car's biggest problem isn't its paint color, but the B7 S4, which
> is a much better looking vehicle :). It's kinda like the early C4's
> and the non-20vt type 44.  Close, but...there's something better. The
> price difference 6-9 months ago was substantial between the 2005 and
> 2005.5 models, and the 2005.5+ models were much harder to come across.
>
> As for the color in the photos, a few things to bear in
> mind...consumer digital cameras over-saturate photos by default,
> because market research showed that was what people wanted.  Look at
> how saturated the taillights are, the stoplight in the background, or
> the orange look of the seat memory stop button.  Also, unless you've
> calibrated off a white card / grey card (something many consumers
> don't know how to do, even if their camera can do it), the white
> balance the camera picked could vary quite a bit.  Then there's all
> the craziness on the monitor side.
>
> If you really enjoy photography (producing and/or enjoying), a S-PVA
> LCD monitor and calibration puck are both worth it.
>
> -B
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