Posted by laraine 
Category: Nothing is more frustrating than spending hours editing a photo only to bring it onto another computer and have my perfect colors destroyed by an imperfect monitor. Every screen displays colors differently and every printer prints them differently. A hue that seems a neutral tan on one surface is suddenly bright yellow on another. It is rare to find a monitor and printer that are perfectly calibrated. Even at the professional photo lab where I work, where we check and measure the colors daily, the correlation is not perfect. I always have to make a mental adjustment when switching from one monitor/printer to another.
When I capture an image, I want everyone to see what I see. I’m recording my vision to share with the world. But nobody will ever see as I do, even when my vision is bared before you, stretched out on a canvas like a flayed animal. Look at the walls around you. The same paint on the wall in front of you looks like a completely different color that the wall next to you. I can’t control everything. Perhaps that’s part of the beauty of it.
