Harmy said:
Well, I never had any professional calibration done, since it's hard to do anything like that on a laptop but it seems to generally show what most people agree on.
A true professional calibration is probably impossible yes, since most laptops lack advanced setup properties for the screen itself, but a normal fast auto-calibration using a colorimeter works fine, I've done it on a laptop myself.
Harmy said:
EDIT: Well, according to this article, my monitor is quite well calibrated but it has terrible viewing angle and bad response time.
Actually that's basic setup, not really calibration. Calibration is when you have a colorimeter or equivalent on your screen which measures the greyscale and colors and sets them up so they display as close as possible to a reference, in this case Rec.709 since it's HD film material we're working with.
If you're interested, google for X-rite i1 Display, it's one of the best price vs performance brands.
Harmy said:
I think the way you see colours also greatly depends at how long have you already been staring at your monitor, sometimes I colour-grade something in the evening and it looks fine and then I look again in the morning and it looks off.
I agree. If I work on a photo or video with changing or correcting colors for too long, I get slightly "colorblind". It's always good to leave it for a while and take a look again.
Harmy said:
Another thing is that letting photoshop balance the image will probably make it look more natural, which isn't always necessarily correct for the film.
Yeah, I just did that to fix the earlier "mistake" of posting a photo that was not color balanced. Just like have been stated before, even the original prints are inconsistent with color, so naturally it's up to you as the "director" to choose how you want it to look. I just thought maybe the photo would be good for seeing how the walls and skintones really looked.
OMEN!-_-! said:
Your whites are still a little yellow there You_Too (at least on my monitor) but I like the flesh tones here the most of the three so it definately gets a thumbs up from me. Has your monitor been colour calibrated as well?
I calibrated my monitor using an X-rite i1 Display 2, not too long ago, which I bought used, mainly to calibrate my TV but I also did the computer monitor and laptop while I was at it. Anyway, like I said I didn't do that color correction by eye but let photoshop auto-balance it. I took a point sample on the wall just in front of Vader's eyes and it came out RGB 247/247/247. And I think it looks pretty neutral overall now too.
Either way, the eye can have a hard time seeing a difference between shades of white in a picture. Look here:
This picture is divided into 4 squares, the upper left being tinted red, upper right green, lower left blue and lower right pure white. I bet on some monitors it's even impossible to see the difference because of the monitor itself.
Harmy said:
And Yoo_Too, you had me believe that those pictures I reposted above were from two different shots, whereas actually they're from one and the colour-timing of the one on the left is only there for the first two frames just before a huge blinding flash, so it is virtually unnoticeable unless viewed frame by frame.
Actually, the tint in the first one begins with this shot:
Then it changes at the shot I showed you and continues when 3PO and R2 run across the screen.