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What are the best lighting conditions to reproduce accurate colour, other than actual daylight, and...what do you think is...


The best daylight simulating bulb currently available.

The least colour polluting diffusion material available.

The least colour polluting reflector of light.

On a scale of one to ten, how important do you thing accurate colour is.
 
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Colour reproduction depends on the way you "develop" your images. And yes, you do develop images - even with digital.

The best way of getting accurate colour is to understand your equipment and have a calibrated workflow.
 
Steve, what is it you are actually trying to do, it might help?

But fundamentally as long as your'e not mixing light sources, i.e all you lights are equal in colour and you use a colour sampler, you should be someway near to getting it right.
 
I just obsess about colour accuracy and how to get it perfect. It's the main stress I have had in learning to photograph the ceramic tiles I make..I don't use a camera for anything else!. The type of light, what it travels through and what reflects it have kept me playing happily for ages now. I'm **** with a camera but I get near perfect colour reproduction with the few settings I need and therefore asked those questions to see what others thought.
 
Hmmn...
The deeper you delve into the physics of light, the more complicated it will become and the less likely it will become to be able to actually make a decision about anything...
I get near perfect colour reproduction with the few settings I need
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Then keep things simple, just look out for off-colour diffusers (e.g. softbox diffusers that have yellowed) room decor and decoration that are likely to cause colour pollution and make sure that you don't have very high levels of ambient light.
In other words, if it ain't broke then don't mend it.
 
Thanks Gary, I do indeed keep it simple. Spyder 3 pro, colour checker passport (don't use this much now) daylight free, light room/shooting area with white ceiling grey walls, two monitors (old) shoot tethered, sharpen etc with DPP,
(can't stand Adobe PS I'm too thick to use it) Canon kit lens on 1000d on tripod with lots of beers. All reflectors painted same as ceiling, or are mirror or tinfoil, bits of acid etched glass for diffusing light, don't trust fabric etc.
Dustbin full of crap that I bought while learning. Tungsten lighting set up too hot, Daylight fluorescent setup just got.
:)
 
I agree if you're getting the colour rendition you want, leave it be! But in answer to your question about what others on here do, I doubt you'll find many here are that obsesive! I think it's always worse when it's you own artwork, and you know how it should look. Having copied artworks for artists many years ago, I know how fussy they can be! :)
 
shoot under all the same lighting (same brand, similar / identical mods), shoot a frame with your colourchecker passport, and sync them, for accurate rendition in post. simples.
 
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