exacting

Digital color management, the path from camera to print (or monitor), is a winding road. Adrian Buckmaster, who specializes in polished and perfect fetish photography, so he should know, says:

"John Napolitano, an old friend and very talented art director, once likened colour management as something akin to driving a car with four steering columns, each driving its own wheel. When he said that, I fell about laughing as it is so true. In the intervening years, that characterization has not changed at all; in fact I would add that the four steering-wheels are now being run by four diabolical bipolar clowns, sometimes in harmony, but more often not."

Buckmaster's full blogpost, a review of the Epson R2880 printer, is here. I use a 2880, too, but since Buckmaster's work is necessarily more exacting than mine, he's more specific than I could be about the virtues and frustrations involved.

You can enter his work here. Leave the kids at home.