Perfect Color in Your Photos - with the ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 from Calibrite!

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Want better and more consistent colors in your digital photograph? Read on!
I'm Joe Brady and I have been using the Calibrite ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 (CCPP2) for a long time now, and it is a tool that goes with me everywhere. You may have remembered it from X-Rite, and this is the same bit of gear - but with a name change and the addition of both a gray and white balance target.
What the CCPP2 does is provide your editing software with a set of known colors and values that allow it to create a custom color calibration for your camera in different lighting conditions. It sounds complicated, but it is incredibly easy.
You would think that every camera manufacturer uses the same standards for red, green and blue - but they all interpret color differently. Add to that the fact that the raw processors in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw have their own default color conversions (which are costing you a lot of color depth and accuracy) and each step of the way degrades your color.
When you create a custom calibration with the Passport, you then have the data necessary to quickly and easily get perfect color. This is easier to show then explain in text - and that’s what today’s video is about.
There are more details and situation to explain, but this first video shows you the basic of how to create a custom color profile for your camera in Lightroom and then use it to snap all of your colors into place.
Want to learn more? You can dig deeper and get your questions answered at www.calibrite.com

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18 май 2024

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@winni223

My 5 cents to this after 25 years in printing industry. Very true for RGB colour space. Can be applied for grey balance in all spaces, no doubts about it. But be cautious with the colours entering the CMYK territory for the very first time. P.S. This checker is absolutely necessary when shooting painted art and everything when colour accuracy is paramount.

@dhouston699

HI Joe keep up the Great work.

@user-ix5rz4lc2o

Looking forward for next detailed video

@ChrisDavisCina

I've had mine in my camera bag forever....I guess it's time to take it out and use it.

@ASMPHOTO

Thank You -Joe ! Greatly appreciate your expert training.

@PasqualeBianculli

Thanks, Joe.

@DiyEcoProjects

Thats cool. Ill try that. I found it in the old Adobe Photoshop:

@andrewwordsworth5364

Hi Jo would you recommend using the passport for a sunrise or sunset image ? Or would it remove all the golden colour I am trying to capture in the image

@kevinhawkins82

I find this works great for landscapes, but the Reds are way too strong for portraits in my opinion! The muted colors look better in Adobe Color when editing portraits in Lightroom with my Nikon Z8 and Z6.

@louli3693

What is the difference between the passport video 2 ? Which one is better for photos and printings ?

@torbenandresen1693

I have a colorchecker passport from XRITE 2009. (Sekonic version) Is there any sort of expiration date on the passport? Do the color patches change over time, or can I count on the accuracy forever?

@garethwilliams976

Perfect colour is very important for many pro photographers, for example those doing fashion work for catalogues and those shooting design work where there is a need to match paint colour together with some scientific or medical applications. For most photographers the exact matching of colour is irrelevant. We just alter the colour until it looks good! For most of us the colour checker is perhaps rather a waste of money.

@ccbphoto

Are you using auto white balance when shooting the card? I keep my camera on "daylight" wb most of the time.

@24mjohnson

So say if your at the place here in your video for a few days and you have a few different locations you wanna go to and at different times of the day and different days etc and the sun is obviously different for each. 1. Do you still have to take a pic of the ColorChecker each time the sun or something changes. 2. With the Caliration color thing you did, do you have to do that for each set of photos that is using the same pic you took with the color checker or no?

@dexon555

Pro tip, you should click your white balance after employing the custom color profile, not before.

@petrub27

So this is a tool to create color accurate images in the worst possible light - the midday light

@BPetiBP 14 дней назад

Why don't you check and compare corrected colorchecker rgb colors with those provided by the manufacturer? Basically no one dare to do it, beucase it would be a disappointment... better just talk about it... You just blindly accept that the new look is correct, but not. It would be even bigger disappointment to create a color profile using colorchecker passpoer and taking pic of a colorchecker digital SG using the profile created by the passport...