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c h a p t e r 1: DIGITAL IMAGING BASICS, WORKFLOW, AND CALIBRATION ■
Working with Your Calibration
Although a full exploration of Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom is beyond the scope
of this book, I can offer the following general breakdown for RAW file processing
using Adobe products.
Ideally, you should shoot a gray card in the same lighting as the bulk of your
subject matter. Have the subject hold the ColorChecker or a gray card. (For the test
shown in Figure 1.40, I stood in for the subject and had an assistant shoot for the
gray card. The remaining shots were taken of the real subject, and this shot was used
to white balance only.) Most often, this can be a simple test shot done at the beginning
of a shoot.
Figure 1.40 Shoot a gray card in the same lighting as the bulk of your shots.
When you are ready to process the shots, simply use the White Balance tool on
the gray card in the first shot, adjust any other sliders you like, and apply the settings
to the rest of the images. After applying White Balance, select all the images; and then
in Lightroom, click the Sync button located in the lower-right corner of the interface
and click OK in the dialog box that opens (Figure 1.41).
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