Colour space

[Michael]

I recently scored a job as a photographer for a magazine here in toowoomba.

The pictorial editor who will be doing ALL the post processing wants the images in CYMK jpegs, which is too hard to do but here is the bit of advice I need.

If I shoot using jpeg via the camera should I turn off the custom colour curves for this?

Or should I shoot in raw and convert the images later on with nikon capture.

Also if I shoot in jpeg on the camera which colour space do you think would be best to use?

Thanks for any help!

Michael.

[sheepie]

First - congrats on the job

Second - shoot RAW, shoot RAW, shoot RAW!

You are going to have to be PP'ing anyway, as the camera won't give you CMYK JPG's - so you might as well give yourself all the opportunity for the highest quality possible

There's many threads on here dedicated to the benefits of RAW - can I suggest you have a look at a few of these if you're still unsure.

[Michael]

Thanks.

I was just after a bit of a second opinion I shot raw this morning and everything went well had a great chat with the people I was taking photos of explaining how all my gear works they were fairly old in thier 70's and were fascinated by all my digital stuff.

also I slept through my alarm this morning leaving me 30 minutes to get dressed and get the the place luckily the journalist was a bit late as well so we kind of timed it right!

[Sheetshooter]

Michael,

It is rare to find a client who demands that the shooter do CMYK conversions - did he give you any profiles for the CMYK conversion? This is usually the domain of the pre-press people who know the press, the dot-gain, the paper and so forth which all contribute to determining a specific profile for the conversion.

I have not found a publisher yet that does not want to work in Adobe RGB and so I would set the camera to that initially.

As the ovine one has said, shoot RAW and afford yourself the possibility of fine-tuning in post. Having said that, however, the vast majority of press people seem to work in small or medium JPG in order to fit more to a memory card and to minimise transmission times for pics being wired to the office.

Sounds like a golden opportunity you have there. I have not been to Toowoomba since the time the Police Olympics trashed the pub there - was it called 'The Lake'?

Kick ass and do good work.

[Michael]

The pictorial edditing is being done by a news paper who owns the magazine.

Apparently they want it in this format as thier programs do the editing automatically with this profile or something so when it gets printed it perfect. I didn't go into too much detail with him I'm just gonna focus on what I have to do and let them do what they have to do.

but yeh I've never heard of anyone using CMYK.

ah well I got another shoot on at 4 so ill watch telle for half an hour and get a move on.

Edit: to sheetshooter

I've only been in toowoomba for 7 years and I don't know of anything called the lake.