Some more tests

Took two photos this evening which I cropped into a 6×7 format afterwards:

Both taken with the E-520 and the 50 macro, with two bounced flashes.

Update/edit, from the same evening:

You have seen some photos taken with a “profiled” camera now, but I still wasn’t happy with the outcome. Turns out that those profiles are ok and a great help, but I have to refine my usual way of work regarding to post-processing. Just making a profile and using that without thinking just the same way you used to do things before just doesn’t work. So I started over, and using the same profile as before, I edited again:

I don’t know about you, but I like these much better already. They’re treated differently by the way – having a profile also doesn’t mean that you don’t have to work on an individual basis anymore. It just is a better starting point. So these are in my opinion way more true to life, and more like I saw the pictures when I took them.

Oh, and for whatever (or whoever) it’s worth, here’s the shot of (half of the) colorchecker which was used to make a profile for this camera and lighting setup:

Thanks for viewing.