Jason Swales Photography – Portfolio Blog

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Portrait Image…with a bit of sRGB, CMYK and .icc thrown in…

 

 

The image above has been created as part of a portfolio catalogue placed together for the personal use of the subject above. Hannah, as previously shown in other pictures published, is extremely helpful when it comes to taking images and practicing the techniques I need to allow me to not only experiment with different lighting methods and scenery, but also to try different settings and equipment. Submitting this publication for the blog has itself been an excellent example of how after all this time I have managed to distinguish between the different colour profiles, the different .icc profiles that are custom to my Epson 4800 Pro. 

I have for some time been trying to have my monitors, printers and web space all agree on the same profiles, this is one of those subject matters that has baffled and bewildered photographers and designers for ages.

Calibration is the first step, that is calibration of the monitor. I have been doing this for a few years now and the profiles created do vary from time to time. The Spyder 2 Pro is the hardware I use and there are many tutorials out there that give you the step by step instructions you need to achieve this. The printer I use is an Epson 4800 Pro, the ultrachrome ink is astonishing and the image reproduction is excellent. The problems have always been between what you see on the monitor and what you see on the final print. I do not convert my images to CMYK and send them to pre-press for production, although this is something that I will progress some time in the future.

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Filed under: Collections, People, Updates

Portfolio Self Portrait

Today, Friday, I am just putting together the style I want for the front part of my portfolio. A self portrait, harder than I first thought but hopefully I can achieve the effect I am after. It needs to be crisp and clean without fuss or distractions. I have the basic idea, it’s now time to put it into practice and see what I can achieve form it. Once complete I hope it will take it’s place on the main portfolio site. As part of the learning process I will give details, along with the final image, of how I achieved it and the set up I used, both in capture and post processing. So the next entry should be the final version, where I hope some feedback will be received as to it’s rating.

Filed under: Editor, Updates

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Welcome to 'Jason Swales Photography Blog' , a weblog designed in partnership with my main photo portfolio. On this site I will share my experiences and journey through the amateur career path of photography; enabling me to show the images I capture, the equipment I use, the digital darkroom workflow and software I manage, as well as setting out my aims and objectives within this subject.

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