I did a shoot for a client a couple of months ago which involved shooting around 50 of their staff members with my 1Ds. These were shoot in a studio I set up at their headquarters. From the supplied TIFFS (which I supplied in Adobe RGB colorspace, sharpened and unsharpened), a well known central London lab has been given the job of printing hundreds of 4"x6" prints - a job worth several thousand pounds, I'm told.
The prints look terrible. They have been warmed up so the skin tones have become orange-y, and the levels have been somehow compressed so that an area of forehead that was R247, G223, B211 is now blown out. I looks like they were all sweating and weren't given makeup. On top of this it looks as though they have been oversharpened; giving the subjects the look of wax dummies. The client has been rejecting the proofs. The lab (which as I understand it does quite a lot of digital work) has told that client that 'that's what happens when you get given work on disk'. As you can imagine, I am quite keen to have a 'discussion' with the lab's production manager about this. In the meantime, does anyone have any thoughts? Many thanks Richard Lewisohn =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
