I’m not saying photographers have to wait for a paid client shoot to worry about screen calibration. Things can start off at a really good place and even though your image will not look the same on these displays that aren’t calibrated, it has a better chance of not looking atrocious on a “normal” screen that hasn’t been calibrated or may be low quality.Įither way, printing or not, I argue that if you are being paid to deliver images to a client you owe it to that client to calibrate your screen so that the images have the best possible chance of looking great however the client uses them. I think of screen calibration establishing a baseline, a good middle ground. There is going to be a massively wide range of quality from pretty good screens on many smartphones and factory-calibrated computer monitors to horrible screens on inexpensive phones, tablets, TVs, and computers. The counter-argument to this, where I have heard a lot of photographers I respect say that screen calibration is a waste of time, comes down to the fact that we can’t control what screens people are going to use to look at our photos. I also think there is value in calibrating your screen when the images are only going to the web. You have a much better chance that the colors, tones, and contrast of the images will look the same in the print as they did on your screen if you do screen calibration. It is probably obvious why it is if the images are going to be printed you need to calibrate your screen. I argue that even if the images aren’t going to be printed and the client is going to use them on their website, you really need to get into screen calibration at that point. For sure you need to calibrate your screen if the images created for the shoot are going to be printed. Once you are hired to do some kind of shoot for a client, you need to calibrate your screen. Photographers Doing Paid Work Need To Calibrate Their Screens Though, if that is you, may want to read on so that you know what is ahead of you when you get there. If you aren’t there yet as a photographer, if you are only sharing personal work online, I agree that screen calibration is likely a waste of time and money. Well, maybe just before that so that your first paid clients get the results they want. I am convinced that the point where you need to consider calibrating your screen is when you begin shooting for paid clients.
Invest in training, workshops, and lenses all should be done before you invest in screen calibration. If you are just starting out on your journey towards mastering photography, there are far more important things to spend your time and money on than screen calibration. Beginning Photographers Don’t Need To Calibrate Their Screens Two extremes there for sure, so I want to share where I have come to be on this over the better part of the past decade as a hobbyist photographer. I have heard a wide range of answers from calibration being a complete waste of time and money up through needing insanely expensive equipment (colorimeter and spectrometer) and screen so that your photos don’t look like terrible. I have witnessed a lot of passionate discussion on the question of screen calibration for photographers. Do All Photographers Need To Calibrate Their Screen? The online forums I have poured through to help me get the understanding I have on screen calibration are filled with people starting off questions with the disclaimer that they don’t know much of anything compared with the very technical answers that are being provided by the real experts. I just may not know the full details about why you need to do something or how to troubleshoot a problem you may encounter. That said, I have spent a lot of time reading and learning about this so that I feel confident in providing a pretty comprehensive guide on what photographers should to get get a good screen calibration for editing their photos. Seems these days if you haven’t totally specialized in a field you really don’t have a chance to claim any more than a basic or surface level understanding and that is certainly true here in the space of screen calibration. You can hear the podcast episode for this guide at Screen Calibration Disclaimerīefore we get too far into things, I want to make it clear that although I have been calibrating screens for my own photo editing for many years and have been happy with the results I have had, it hasn’t taken long in reading through some of the information in screen calibration forums online to realize I am pretty far from being an expert on the topic.
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