Shooting With The Masters - Charles Cramer Part 3

LAB Mode, Control The Dark Tones, Perception, Monitors & Dark Prints and Control The Highlights

We now enter the fun part of the Shooting With The Masters series as we join Charlie in his studio and start to make prints from the images we shot over the previous days.  But before we do that, we need to learn some basic things about printing and working our images on the computer with Lightroom & Photoshop.  Charlie has some very good lessons that will get many of you to reconsider your set up in Photoshop and how to understand what you are seeing when judging an image to be worked on.
It's time to get out of RGB and CMYK mode and enter the realm of LAB
The first video focuses on LAB mode and why it gives a more accurate starting point for judging the luminosity of your images.  This is the foundation for how Charlie starts all his work.
LAB Mode Video

Control The Dark Tones

Many photographers find their prints come out too dark.  Why?  Charlie continues to show how to set up...