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Bad colours

Mar 19th, 2008
by Husky.

The quality of the photo shops here is horrible. I think I’ll need to take my images to a professional photolab to get printed, or do it myself.

These are samples of photos printed by three different shops… using the same files. I took care to ensure that the white balance was accurate when I photographed (’scanned’) copies of the prints, so that WYSIWIG:

Posted in: Daily Randomness, The Photographer.

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4 Comments on “Bad colours”

  1. #1 Pb Girl  
    on Mar 20th, 2008 at 6:29 am

    From the looks of it, the top one of the squirrel looks best albeit a little over exposed. But the bottom one of the landscape has nicer colours!

    Some places actually fiddle with your pics before printing them out. You might have to ask them to just leave print settings at neutral or something. When I was at Costco a while ago, I saw the staff actually editing on the computers pre-printing. The intentional purpley colour cast I’d added to my pic was removed when printed.

  2. #2 Husky  
    on Mar 20th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    I usually tell them not to mess with the colours. But nowadays instant printing is done straight from those machines where you slot in your memory card or bluetooth pics over and you do your printing via a touch screen.

    How much does it cost to develop prints in London again? Here it’s anything from SGD 0.35 – 0.60 for a 4R print…

  3. #3 Pb Girl  
    on Mar 20th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    I use Costco. You can Google for it yourself. The only thing about Costco is that it’s one of those american membership only warehouse cash & carry’s. We tend to get Oreo’s in trade boxes and 2L’s of refreshingly delicious Tropicana orange juice with jucy bits. They also do glasses and tyres. They’re pretty broad. I really like their muffins. They’re humungous!

  4. #4 vv  
    on Mar 30th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    I like the bottom one cos it’s more saturated and warm = more colour
    hehe

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