{"id":964,"date":"2011-12-29T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T09:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/test\/?p=964"},"modified":"2011-12-29T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T09:25:29","slug":"using-a-grey-card-in-lighroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Using a Grey Card in Lighroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"132\"><\/a>Colours can be a very subjective thing, I might process a picture and push the colours towards the warm side, where as you might process the same picture but process the colours a bit cooler. On their own both pictures will look perfect, but viewing them side by side will highlight the colour difference.<\/p>\n<p>Now you might ask the question, does that really matter? To which my answer would often be, no. If you\u2019re happy with the colour then that\u2019s fine. However there are certain times when getting the correct colour is absolutely vital. <\/p>\n<p>Perfect colour rendition is vital if you\u2019re a record photographer shooting, for example, a painting for a catalogue. But how many of us do that? No, the place I need perfect colour is shooting portraits and that\u2019s why I use a grey card.<\/p>\n<p>In my last blog post I reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=963\">the WhiBal card from Michael Tapes Design<\/a>. In this post I\u2019ll show you how I use the card in my Lightroom workflow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 622px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:c28a8f0a-64cd-4e0d-8aa6-902bec05ea67\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"622\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0cvnyJDicDs?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0cvnyJDicDs?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"622\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colours can be a very subjective thing, I might process a picture and push the colours towards the warm side, where as you might process the same picture but process the colours a bit cooler. On their own both pictures will look perfect, but viewing them side by side will highlight the colour difference. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using a Grey Card in Lighroom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}