As any hands-on father will tell you, the idea that being actively involved in child care makes you "soft" is quite asinine. It takes a massive amount of physical and mental strength to be fully involved in raising these miniature terrorists we call children.
Sit in darkened rooms, spin 3 trackballs, and turn a few knobs to make pictures look pretty, mostly. DaVinci Resolve[1] and Baselight[2] are quite popular, take a look at the websites to give yourself an idea of what it looks like.
Hah, thanks! I should have been a little bit clearer - not an ELI5-layperson, a layperson who has some vague handwavey idea of how video/film is made and once read a popular article about orange/teal contrast.
It's more stuff like 'what is it about this process that makes a dedicated colour specialist necessary?', 'what are the things things they're supposed to accomplish?', 'what are their technical and creative constraints/inputs/deliverables?', etc.
Everyone needs to characterize (not “calibrate”; that term is highly misleading) their display. The question is just whether you keep the characterization provided by the manufacturer, or measure the display yourself using a hardware device. Either way, the result is a display “profile”, which is basically a lookup table used by software to map color coordinates so that they will appear as expected on the display.
People using Macs certainly do care about ColorSync. That’s the name of the software which uses the display characterization to keep colors looking as expected throughout the operating system and most applications.
In many professional environments the preferred route is to use specialist hardware to send an RGB signal at a high bit rate and do any colour transformation in the monitor hardware.
Using LUTs either at the application or OS level to adjust colour information is a big no-no, although that doesn't stop some people from doing it. You simply don't want to change your colour space[1] until you absolutely have to.
The point of calibrating your monitor (which is a hardware + firmware level problem) is to see how your RGB image will look on a colour space restricted piece of hardware (for example in video this is often 12-bit RGB --> Rec709).
If you have some image data stored with reference to one color space, and you want to convert the data to a different color space (e.g. because you are targeting some particular output device), that is a gamut mapping problem. To learn about different trade-offs involved in choice of gamut mapping algorithms, I recommend Ján Morovič’s monograph, https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Color+Gamut+Mapping-p-9780470030...
Same story if you want to show your image on a display with a different gamut.
Most gamut mapping algorithms used in practice (whether on a display or in software) are actually pretty mediocre in my opinion. It would be possible to do substantially better by writing your own code, at the expense of being a bunch of work. Alas.
P.S. The Wikipedia article about color space (and articles about many other color-related topics) is pretty terrible, but I’ve been too lazy to rewrite it.
Yep. I was a Colourist in my former life (TV ads, promo films, music videos mainly), used Resolve on OSX with a Flanders monitor. Most other people I talked to were either using OSX or Linux. (Granted, this is a few years ago when ProRes was the primary capture and delivery codec).
This very much depends on where you grow up. Plenty of countries in the world where you can live a comfortable middle class life and still be around a lot of stray cats.
True - but then that's the general issue with London vs the rest of the country. Compared to other careers, dev salaries in London make the city pretty liveable. I'm certainly not struggling to service a mortgage in Zone 2, and many devs I know are similarly comfortable.
You, or you and a partner? Do you work in finance?
I'm having trouble with my idea of average dev salaries and zone 2 prices equalling comfortable (i.e. nice amount of savings and disposable income after mortgage payment). If non-finance, I must be really out of touch with London salaries. I had an email today offering "up to £50k" for a devops position at a web agency...risible.
Risible indeed. Lemme give you more perspective of London salaries. Good you are in DevOps because I got that keyword on my resume too.
These are all the LinkedIn messages with a salary range I got since the beginning of February. Mostly from recruiters. (target: typical 20-30 years old, nothing special).
* DevOps Engineer - Cloud Managed Service - Aldgate east (London) - £50k - £65k
* DevOps Engineer - a global digital market agency - Canary Wharf - £60k - £70k
* DevOps Engineer - Kings Cross - £65k - £75k
* SysAdmin (DevOps) - £50k
* Senior Site Reliability Engineer - market leading eCommerce client based in London - £70,000 + 20% bonus and competitive benefits.
* Consultant on <specific tech I worked on before> + DevOps - "The day rate is around the £800 mark."
* world’s largest peer to peer lending services - up to £75K + benefits.
* London’s leading Cloud and Automation Consultancies (within financial services). - up to £60K + benefits..
Of course, it's only the 9th right now. The month just begins :D
the problem I that marketing and publishing don't treat the techies with respect "contempt" was how my last but one boss put it and he was a director at a subsidiary of relex
The Austrian right is far more popular in the countryside than the cities - which is not a new thing, non-urban areas have historically been more right-leaning.
It's the same problem we continue to see in other countries - progressive cities and conservative regions.
That said, because progressives have been so successful in Austria, even the right wing is very socialist in some ways. It's just that they want all those benefits for Austrians only.
