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  • Nicolas

    Administrator
    2025-03-31 at 5:26 pm

    hi @ppina

    I second others’ recommendation for colour calibrating the display you work with, I wouldn’t worry about creating a curve in camera.

    When others say your colours seem off, it could indeed be an issue with your display, so the colour calibration should help.

    It could also be that you export your images in AdobeRGB colour space, which expose them to more “creative” rendering on non-quality photo screens. You can avoid that uncertainty by exporting in sRGB, in case you aren’t doing that already.

    Another reason might simply be personal taste & your vision.

    Regarding the former, I am known for linking my coral reefs shots a little more red/pink – I like these red/pink/orange colours to pop.

    On the vision side of things, eye ageing causes our eyes’ natural lens to turn slightly yellow or brownish, and makes older eyes less sensitive to cooler lights (caracts apparently can amplify this). This means an older photographer may not notice a warm/yellow colour cast in a photo. I know a photographer who couldn’t understand why his wreck photos didn’t do well in a photo competition. He spoke with the jury who said they all looked too yellow, which he then realised was due to this.

    Hope this helps!