Using D90 with Lightroom 2.4

[blue_kelvinsg]

Hi mates,

Some rather noobish questions here. I'm a D90 user and am using Lightroom 2.4 to edit my photos. I've been reading alot about colour management and camera profile. I'm just wondering, after installing Lightroom, am I required to:

1) install other applications such as the camera profile application from the adobe site

2) adjust some settings in lightroom such as the Camera Calibration (Camera profiles)

to get the optimum and most accurate colour profile in Lightroom?

I understand from flickr and other forums that report of how Nikon NEF files are displayed differently on different editing softwares - eg, colours will turn out differently in Camera Raw, LR and Capture NX.

The frustrating part is when I select to shoot in JPEG + Raw. And when I load the photos onto my computer, I realised that the JPEGs colours turn out more vibrant than the RAW ones. In addition, I'm unable to tweak the RAW to look like the JPEGs.

Really confused, hope some people could give some advice.

[sjackal]

Originally Posted by blue_kelvinsg Hi mates, Some rather noobish questions here. I'm a D90 user and am using Lightroom 2.4 to edit my photos. I've been reading alot about colour management and camera profile. I'm just wondering, after installing Lightroom, am I required to: 1) install other applications such as the camera profile application from the adobe site 2) adjust some settings in lightroom such as the Camera Calibration (Camera profiles) to get the optimum and most accurate colour profile in Lightroom? I understand from flickr and other forums that report of how Nikon NEF files are displayed differently on different editing softwares - eg, colours will turn out differently in Camera Raw, LR and Capture NX. The frustrating part is when I select to shoot in JPEG + Raw. And when I load the photos onto my computer, I realised that the JPEGs colours turn out more vibrant than the RAW ones. In addition, I'm unable to tweak the RAW to look like the JPEGs. Really confused, hope some people could give some advice.

This thread sounds more right in the Digital Darkroom forum instead of Nikon forum...

I am still at 2.3, but no matter. Your questions:

1. No need to install camera profiles, its already there when you install LR2.3 onwards.

2. No need to adjust camera calibrations/profile, the provided ones works really well, unless you have really unique RAW files that you must tweak yourself to solve color problems, I wouldn't mess with camera calibration. If you are the mainstream Nikon/Canon users, don't bother.

There is no most optimum and accurate color profile. Its how you as a RAW shooter want to present it.

I am a RAW+Jpeg shooter (not JPEG + Raw ) RAW is the full capture, and Jpeg is the way Nikon interprets it. Very often real RAW shooters doesn't really gives hoot how Nikon or Canon interprets the colors because the photographer got his/her own interpretation and he/her uses Lightroom to create better JPEGs than the camera could do.

There is no need to get the RAW looking exactly like the Camera produced Jpegs, you are concerned because you are still thinking like a JPEG shooter. But think about it this way, once you edit your JPEGs, they are no longer originals anyway.

If you really must have RAW and Jpeg looking same same, then its better to use Nikon Capture NX2.

Good luck dude.

[blue_kelvinsg]

thanks that was swift and helpful