Digital photography

a little off-topic but does anyone have any recommendations for learning about colour management, calibration etc?

My job requires a bit of photoshop/indesign/lightroom for both web and print and i've never really started to get my head around it.

http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2013/11/interview-steve-mccurry-changing-world-and-state-street-photography?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

^ ooh, mccurry. nice.

a little off-topic but does anyone have any recommendations for learning about colour management, calibration etc?

Use sRGB.

Seriously though, it would be best you found someone who knows this shit and can teach you in person.
I have not yet seen some online resource that explains this stuff well without going in 1000 details.

a little off-topic but does anyone have any recommendations for learning about colour management, calibration etc?

My job requires a bit of photoshop/indesign/lightroom for both web and print and i've never really started to get my head around it.

Use a calibrator to generate a colour profile for your screen.
Install blackout blinds so that your room always has the same light conditions.
Use a calibrator to generate a colour profile for your printer and/or scanner.
Use sRGB as your working color space.

Note: different devices would probably be needed for calibrating the screen (emitted/filtered light) and the printer (reflected/absorbed).

Super-Takumar 55mm *f*1.8 with an M42 > EOS adapter with a Canon 1000D

Here's one; straight off the camera (bar bicubic downsize) -

Thanks - I'm looking at a calibrator - Would the cheapo (>£100) colormunki or pantone things do the trick or am I better borrowing something more expensive? I have one desktop screen and a laptop screen which I work on.

I'm in a shared office so blackout blinds not really practical - in fact, the office lighting gives a pink cast to any white paper which can't be good.

Printing is done by a couple of different external companies - All images are provided to them as CMYK but i'm a little confused by the idea of how what i'm seeing (in sRGB) ends up looking on paper.

All basic, badly-explained issues. Still floundering a little.

If you don't want to spend the money on a calibrator you can just find someone else who has already done it with the same setup and use those settings. Granted, it won't be that accurate, but it'll be a lot better than the default settings.

The people where i get my things printed give you an "icc profile" you can use to do a "proof setup" in Photoshop.
So this mimics the sort of paper it's going to be printed on & you get an idea what it will look like.
Talk to the external companies that are doing your printing.

Those calibrators work. Depending on your backlight quality you might get even colours across the screen. It helps but not as much as a decent screen, i.e. Eizo. As has been mentioned you can get an icc profile for the print end and then switch on the proof display in photoshop.

^ Pylons are always good. Seeing as most of your stuff is B&W, do you still shoot RAW?

Went to Ikea today. Its a bit post-apocalyptic up there.

Your pics always make more sense when seen as a group.

And, no, I've never shot RAW.

reminds me of Tommmmmmm's Graham Weigh paint job inspiration

I'm now thinking about RAL 7016, Anthracite Grey.

Or RAL 7015, Slate grey. I think this shipping container illustrates how well that would go with yellow decals:

And I would like the distinction of owning one of the first bikes designed after a shipping container. I think both of these colours are pretty nice, and maybe a little lighter than the matt black/carbon colour which is becoming a bit ubiquitous.

Thoughts?

Its a pretty sexy shipping container but I'm always partial to a Maersk.

A close shave

http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2014/02/02/american-photojournalist-injured-in-pre-election-clashes-in-bangkok/

Must be bad if he has taken to wearing a lid.

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A portrait of my Gran and beagle Molly this afternoon, not perfectly framed but I liked the way the dog was looking at her :)

I like pictures like that (and specifically that) where there is a variety of expression going on, even if one of them is a beagle.

What if one of them is a short haired retriever having a shake and one is porcelain?

Porcelain looks unimpressed/nervous but I can't see the expression on the monster dog. I haven't seen enough of this type to form an opinion yet.

^^ ...that is AWESOME !!

Spent half an hour around Tavistock Square yesterday with my camera. First time in 5 months I've been taking photos of something that's not my kid...

Really like both of them. I'm always too chicken to take photos of people unless it's on an official basis.