Yesterday Nikon organized a club day for the Dutch Nikon User Club (of which I am since a little member). This event was held in “De Jaarbeurs” in the city of Utrecht.
At first I expected a day with lots of advertising about Nikon-products, but I was very wrong. It all turned out into some very interesting lectures about photography and photo-editing. Although I am not new to photo-editing, I learned a lot.
Specially the parts about color-profiles was interesting. To learn that sRGB (Standard RGB) is not that standard as Microsoft wants us to believe. And more, sRGB is not even the best at all. The color-range of Adobe RGB is much broader as sRGB. And of course that is what you want when you talk about photo-editing.
Sure, that means you have to be a bit careful with printing or publishing your pictures. But it is worth it.
Wasn’t I convinced about making pictures in RAW/NEF format, then I am now. Because there is so much “image” information stored in a RAW-file, you have many and many more possibilities when you need to enhance or correct a picture for what ever reason.
Lately I have a lot to do with companies that are related to graphics in some way. While listening suddenly I got a feeling that a lot of the people working at these companies have no idea about these advanced technics… something that (not directly) confrimed by one of the speakers.
The three speakers (Johan Kerver, Mearlant van Bremen and Roeland Koene) did a marvelous job and proofed they have a great sense of humor.
I bought a book about photo-editing written by Johan Kerver and he was so kind to place his signature in it.
Only this day was already my annual contribution for the user club worth!!!!
Afterwards I had a nice dinner based on curry and chicken at “De Tijd” (which is located in the shopping center that is connected to the central railroad station of the city of Utrecht).
A very good and nice day it was.