Although I like to think I have a reasonable color managed work flow I must admit that sometimes I get color surprises, usually not large ones but some none the less. I have been playing around with some new materials, to me anyway, Breathing Color’s photo glossy and metallic papers, using there ICC’s as a start. Anyway I was over where I keep one of my printers printing some school/sports packages and on a whim decided to print this file on the Breathing Color gloss material using their profile and got a bit of a happy accident. For whatever reasons it seems to have given me by chance most of the suggestions voiced here. The interior printed just a slight touch darker and warmer and the exterior a tiny bit lighter. As far as that goes it seems to have allayed my discomfort as to whether there is a blunt obviousness that the print is an HDR shot.
On the down side the print seems to have accentuated the significant differences in the color temperatures inside and outside to the point that it’s more noticeable than on my monitors. I was fairly happy with the color inside given the florescent lighting as seen on the monitor but the print has a slightly heightened yellowish color cast in the concrete. As well the blue cast from the outside light on the far end has gotten a bit garish and will need to be dealt with as well. I suspect that if I build my own profile that interior color should be managed, I likely will need to knock down the blue at the far end by other means.
This is all well and good.
Then of course, much to my disbelief, using a bit less time and work you could just do it with one apparently useless NEF frame and using LR 4.2.
BarnOneFrame by
Larry Heath, on Flickr
That started here.
StartOneFrameBarn by
Larry Heath, on Flickr
Then ending here.
EndOneFrameBarn by
Larry Heath, on Flickr
I really didn’t think it was possible to do this. Now there is a good bit more noise in the single frame, but all in all not too shabby.