This is something that is so important, but very few people do - monitor calibration. YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO CALIBRATE YOUR MONITOR. If you don't, you are blindly making images without any idea of what the true color, contrast, saturation, and brightness is. Did you also know that your camera's LCD screen is very inaccurate? This means if you are judging your images on your camera, your images … [Read more...]
The Downside of Working On Laptops And The Best Monitors For Your Food Photos
This is not a sponsored post and I'm not being supported or endorsed by X-Rite. They have great customer support and have helped me with calibrating my systems for years and have also helped with my research for this post. Originally I was just going to make a post about calibrating your monitor as it's so crucial, and I learned that most people are not doing this. I decided to run a poll in … [Read more...]
Do I need to calibrate my monitor? Yes!
This post was updated December 15th, 2016 - and I'm happy to say that the prices on the calibration equipment has gone down quite a bit since this was first written. If you are serious about your food photography (or any photography for that matter) one of the things you are going to have to get comfortable with is calibrating your monitor. Monitor calibration is a process you do with a device … [Read more...]
Why You Might Need To Adjust Your Camera’s LCD and How
To get the right exposure you have to learn to interpret your camera's LCD. Your camera's LCD is not going to look exactly like your monitor when viewing the same image. In fact some camera LCD's are shockingly different from what your digital file will look like. The image above is of the set of one of our students, Patrick Evans-Hylton. He has a point and shoot camera and it did a pretty good … [Read more...]