How to Use a Color Checker Passport Photo | Mark Wallace | Exploring Photography
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- The ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 is an indispensable tool that helps you to capture the colors of the world more perfectly and ensures that from capture to edit, you are beginning with the most accurate image possible. In this episode, Mark Wallace demonstrates the basics of this indispensable tool.
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Mark, this is absolutely the best discussion of using the ColorChecker Passport I've ever seen. Others tell us that it's a good product, but don't walk us through how to use every bit of it. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Always wondered about those! Thank you! Really appreciate you walking through the WHOLE PROCESS!!! This is so helpful!!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you, Mark. This video is a definite keeper in my favs. Very well explained and I’ll refer to it in the future many times, over.
Very nice! Would be interesting to see the workflow in DxO and Capture One as well as a follow-up video.
The best explanation I’ve seen!
Thanks for the kind words. :)
Great explanation. Best I've seen. I used to use one but found hitting 'Auto' now for WB in LrC on a whole folder of images shot in weird light ....sorted them all out, so have been sticking with that. I guess I'll have to dig mine out and try it again though, to give it a chance.
The “blue vs. gold” dress argument would not exist if everyone did the steps in this video! 😂
nice video for beginners thank you so much
My pleasure 😊
I'm here for Sara, not the content. To be fair.
Hi Mark! This is THE BEST VIDEO and explanation I have ever seen on the ColorChecker! I have one myself, and I have Tried to use it on portraits as well as in woodland photography. The latter can be hard. I sure needed this fine systematic talk.
Does Adobe Camera Raw also have the same export feature, or will I get the same result if I just open the actual picture with the ColorChecker in it directly in the Calibrite program as a stand-alone?
Thank You!
Kind Regards, Jan, DK
ACR doesn't have the same export feature, you'll have to use the Calibrite profile tool to create profiles for ACR.
I buy that passport few weeks ago but Datacolor's own software does not make profile for Capture One. :(
ITS NOT DATACOLORS TOOL
@@chazM6116 I do not know who manufacturer's is, but in my tool it is printer Datacolor's logo on top of it.
That's a different product from Datacolor, not Calibrite. Different brands and different products. I use Calibrite because they are far superior in my experience.
Good class. Hope to see a product photography class during the fall or spring. Thanks.
I've been using them since they first came out and for decades before that the full size Colorchecker.
I’m using this for so long but learned new things now. Thanks a lot and greets from Belgium !
Glad to help!
Superb video
Thank you so much 😀
I use the color checker passport too but no need to flip to the page with large grey panels as the top row has multiple neutral grey levels. Have you calibrated your camera sensor w/ lens using multiple color temps? Strongly recommend that. This is also useful if you ever Astromodify you sensor (enables you to take daylight shots since filters on top of the sensor have been stripped out)
Love to go through a deep dive into ICC profiles with you!
Thanks so much
I'll add that to my list of future videos. It seems you're not the only one asking for a deeper look.
Thanks so much! That’s awesome 🤩 Gracias
Thanks for the awesome tutorial... have a question? When I'm doing my calibration it takes two seconds and it does nothing else happens. Do you think something conflicting with my software and Lightroom it does not show up no more after 15 seconds successfully or nothing.. thoughts? Thank you very much sir
It could be a lot of things. I'd make sure you Lightroom is up to date and then I'd uninstall the ColorChecker software and reinstall it with the latest version. If that doesn't fix things, contact Calibrite. calibrite.com/us/contact/
THANK YOU!!! See all these photography videos where someone will say "Use one of these", but never explain how to use it... This is great.
You bet!
Nice clear survey for Lr. I have PS 5 and I bought the competitor DataColor Spyder Chekr 24. It's all new to me. I usually just find my white point and black point in my PS file and work from there. Haven't got my feet wet with the DataColor yet. You explain the process quite clearly though. Clearest one I"ve watched thus far. Thank-you.
DataColor has different software and workflow. I used some of their gear in years past, but switched to Calibrite about a decade ago. I haven't used the Spyder Chekr so I'm not sure what the differences are. Let us know how it goes! :)
Love your explination on how to use the colour card, I've a tiny mini colour classic checker card that is one of the cars you used in the video that just has the swatches on it, but not the one with the various whites. I must try and find it as I never used it before.
I did buy a grey card from Amazon recently and used it last shoot I did, when using the eyedropper to select the white balance on the greycard it did not work out too well it made skin tones horrible and yellow and the whites went not white! Trying adust the brightness so the grey from the grey card was 50 ish in the RGB range made everything too bring and I was neatly 2 stop increase (I was shooting in studio using feathered lighting aiming for a vintage look so things would be a little underexposed. Possibly the el-cheapo grey card from amazon was the issue...............get a lot better results when I adjust using my eyers to my own tastes.....Plus I'm using Luts after I process the image just before export to alter the colours in the end......but I would like my colours to be accurate when I start to edit my photos.
Have my screens profiled using the istudio calibration tool does not really make a huge differennce between calibrated vs uncalibrated think I paid over 500 bucks for the xrite colour checker studio hardware at the time.
I'm guessing the grey card you bought was not a calibrated target. Just a gray piece of cardboard. :) Quality does count. Monitor profiling really makes a difference when you're printing and need your monitor and printer to match. If you're not printing a lot, you can get away with a default screen profile.
Great explanation. Do you create a new profile for every shoot? You created one in this video, but you didn't have a whole bunch of new profiles there to choose from. It seems like over time you would have hundreds of camera profiles that would never be used again.
@@dsorx I delete the profiles I’m not actively using so the list doesn’t become super long. For this video I removed all of them to keep things easy to understand.
Have used the color checker passport for as long as it has been around. Have done the profiling and color correction. Have never seen an explanation of the colors and grey scale on the top. Thanks for the information of what they do.
It's such a handy tool. Simple but powerful.
Are you shooting with Canon gear? I believe that if you shot in the portrait profile the Canon models tended too over do it with the reds. I don't have the Passport version I have a larger one that just has the colored squares, can these be used in video applications? I want to start shooting stock video clips and in landscapes if it were partly cloudy the WB would be changing more noticeably than with stills.
Yep - this was shot with a Canon R5
thanks for these explanations
with a demonstration it is much clearer indeed for novices like me
Thanks
Glad to hear that! Don't hesitate to post questions on videos. That's how I get ideas for new videos.
Hi Mr Wallace, a fine video as always. Do you think there's a poor man's version of the Passport out there?? 😅😅😅 It sells for more than 10% of my take-home pay where I live 💔😭
There are other brands, but I don't know what the quality is. I've used some different brands in the past, and none come close to Calibrite. And they are NOT sponsoring this video, I don't make any money from them. It's my honest opinion based on experience.
Thank you very much. Huge amount of great information!!
Glad it was helpful!
I’m still watching video but should I do a WB adjustment then the color calibration or calibration first?
@@KenToney calibration first.
@@MarkWallaceVideos thanks, seems like I asked you that about 10 years ago 😂😂
Great Video Mark, Many Thanks to you ....
Very welcome!
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Thanks so much! I need to head back to India again soon. It's such a great place.
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This is very useful, thank you!
You bet!
Thank you for going over everything on the Color Checker. I have used it a few times. It would be nice to learn how to delete the profiles after you are done with your post processing. Thanks again.
Calibrite has a tool for managing the profiles. It's on the same page as the other software. If you want to delete them they are buried deep on the hard drive. Are you using a Mac or PC?
@@MarkWallaceVideos I am personally using a Mac. I did find another video that explained how to delete old ones. Thank you very much Mark.
Is there a difference between color checker that comes with a white cover vs the black cover?
Do these checkers expire?
THEY WILL TELL YOU IT DOES TO SELL MORE LOL
I don't know of any Caibrite ColorChecker Photo that has a white cover. There's only one version. Perhaps you're thinking of the Photo vs Video ColorChecker. They have different targets suited for different needs. But even the Video ColorChecker has a black cover.
Send me a link to the product you're referring to, I'm curious.
Thanks Mark, super useful content as always. Good to know I'm doing it right for once. I discovered the colour checker passport and camera profile calibration when doing some product photography for my wife's ceramics business. The colours in the jpgs out of camera looked fine but the LR camera profiles/adobe profiles had significant colour shifts. Once I figured out what was happening I bought the colour checker and it works very effectively.
Great to hear! It's so rewarding when you discover a process that works. Thanks for sharing!
Calibration is important because you don't want a devil with a blue dress on! 😀 On a more serious note, I have a couple questions:
1. I've heard it said that the ColorChecker should be replaced every 2 years. Is this still recommended if it is used only on a few shoots under consistent lighting and not every time the light changes on more frequent shoots?
2. At about 33:00 of the video, the left edge of the histogram appears to be clipped, thus showing a white marker. Depending on what colour that marker is, would you consider adjusting the blacks to eliminate the clipping?
Love all your videos! Keep them coming!
1. Yep, you should replace it every two years. I'm not sure how stable the colors are after that. If you're not working on critical colors (catalogs, etc.), then I'm sure you can use your ColorChecker for much longer.
2. You can click the white triangle, and the clipped areas will appear in blue. In that image, the clipped area is just a tiny part of the background. It doesn't matter to the image; it should be totally black. So, for that image, no adjustment is needed.
Now i need a color checker...
They are really great. I've been using them for many years.
Great video, Mark!
Thanks!
Well presented!
Thank you!
Middle grey is 50.8 in Lab colour / 120 in Adobe RGB / 118 JPEG SRGB / 128 Adobe Histogram. If you're using a light meter you want to make sure it's calibrated accordingly.
I assume a laboratory service is required if you want to get a light meter calibrated?
@@JayJayYUP No you can apply an offset in the meter to adjust to your setup.
@@denizahmet2299 Sorry I guess I'm confused, I imagined light meter calibration would require a known reference source verified by another meter/device to then be able to calibrate another.
You can calibrate a Sekonic light meter with a calibration target from Sekonic. It's very accurate. sekonic.com/sekonic-exposure-profile-target-ii-for-sekonic-light-meters/
@@MarkWallaceVideos Discontinued ;-( guess it's time for second hand hunting. Though what I was talking about, wasn't profiling your camera, I mean't calibrating the actual Sekonic light meter itself to make sure itself is functioning correctly.