Let's Talk About Colors in Photography

Better color doesn't come from cameras or presets, what it really needs is a good eye

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[hallomarvin]

About that idea with sorting slightly different photo prints: I highly recommend the game BLENDOKU (2). It's a casual puzzle game where you need to sort colored squares by hue, brightness, tint, saturation, … it really trains your ability of distinguishing colors.

[jcruz]

First off THANK YOU for jumping right into it. Honestly, the majority of videos I watch take waaaay too long to get to the point (not including any sponsored messages which I know have to be done).

[safesolvent]

Deceptively simple video with some damn useful tips. Your photography always has such a heightened MAGAZINE look (I say that with much fondness) it's great to hear how you approach your colour work. 🙌🏻

[TomMasonPhoto]

Tyler - Great little video and the Lightroom process of making things wrong to get them right is something I've been doing for a few years now, smashing the saturation to 100 before then moving my temperature and tone sliders till I get the most natural colour as possible for 100% saturation before bringing it back to 0-5 when complete. Its a great repeatable way to get great accurate colour each time on my wildlife images! The BenQ looks great, my old iMac will certainly be up for replacement in the next few years and these monitors are certainly what I'll be looking to invest in! Cheers and keep up the great videos, Tom

[robertodhorn]

Watched this video yesterday before bed and now after setting up to work. Great way to start the day. Such great inputs, clean and fresh look makes me want to work more and harder :)

[mykeekym]

This is very informative. Digital and print is really different. I tend to forget in looking to tangible prints for inspiration. Now I am avoiding changing most especially the skin tone of the subject. Making it more natural and then ill take your tip to save those outstanding photo and look at it after what makes you like and save it.

[jeffzest]

Damn, out of thousands of monitor reviews on YT, this is the ONLY ONE that talks image qualify first! Kudos!

[StefanSvanfeldt]

Nice video. Calibrating your monitors is key AND so is controlling the lighting at your edit room. One additional thing that I find useful is to calibrate your iPhone manually so that it matches your monitors as close as possible. I look at my phone so often that it being so far from the colors on the monitors is really distracting.

[DaveDugdaleColorado]

Great idea for an exercise before you start grading.

[DekiaryCarter]

This was such an incredible video! Color grading and proper white balance in indoor situations with a variety of lights is something I’m really trying to get better at. Some of the client work I do, I don’t have the ability to turn off their lights in the space I’m working in so it takes some tweaking.

[SolomonHsu]

hi, your voice is just a lil boomy - i took it into adobe audition and found that a lil dip at around 130hz by about -3db - i think the reverb in your studio adds to it. otherwise love your videos man!!!

[hackk]

Monitor looking Slick, cool content Tyler keep pumping out good videos under 10min is really the sweet spot for me otherwise it feels too long sometimes.

[MrAdilRehman]

Can you make a video on how you color grade?

[MichaelSchmidt_UrbnPxl]

nice video ... good advice ... i do the same "trick" with audio ... always listen to some of my fav. "reference tracks" so i keep my ears in tune so to speak ... kinda did that with video and photo as well ... but should do that with printet photos as well! thanks mate!

[iPhotographyCo]

very important topic, not enough people consider the importance of colour

[EggTamago]

White balance is by far my biggest struggle in terms of colour I've noticed after a longer editing session, my brain starts biasing in some direction or another, and I need to stop and mentally re-calibrate. Definitely a strong case for having references handy!


Things that help me: White balance sliders only get you so far, since they are a bulk image adjustment. Throw in multiple light sources, and things get messy quickly. Going into the colour sliders in Lightroom and cutting yellow/blue/green/magenta, or delving into the individual RGB curves to adjust colour temperature of only a specific luminance range helps loads as well.

[jaimem]

I use both Apple and Android devices and IME Android devices tend towards cooler more neutral colors whereas Apple tends to warmer colors making skin tones look a lot healthier and colors pop more in general. Also, surprised you didn't mention the night shift modes that most newer devices use at night to filter out blue light that totally throws off your colors and easily noticeable to naked eye. Learned not to edit stuff at night or be aware if device you editing on is using that night shift mode because that same picture that looks great will look terrible and colors totally off during the day when mode switches or picture viewed on device that doesn't support or have night mode switched on!!! Anyways, the photolab printing out same pic with different color temps was very useful and cool tip!

[stephenrobinson]

Very insightful. Currently rebranding the whole channel and look, so this is super helpful.

[mattgonzalez]

Hey I use that monitor. It’s quite good. Great video as usual!

[fayyazb]

Very COOL! Any new favourite monitor in 2019 - 2020?