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<blockquote data-quote="Felisek" data-source="post: 469054" data-attributes="member: 23887">Let me reiterate what Blade Canyon said. If you shoot your chart during the &quot;golden hour&quot;, i.e., near sunset or sunrise, the colour checker will try to compensate for the very warm light and make whites white. Other colours will be also change and the resulting picture will look awful. This is not what you want.I've heard an advice that if you want to shoot at sunset, you should come to your location in the middle of a sunny day and take a picture of your profile for perfect daylight calibration. Use this profile to shoot a sunset later. However, I find this approach excessive. We seldom need sunset colours to look faithful. Most photographers would tweak them anyway too look warmer and more saturated, or change them otherwise to their liking. Personally, I don't think you need a colour checker for this type of photography. Even daylight creates its own colour cast which you might not want to remove for artistic effects.I believe that colour charts are primarily designed for portrait photography, when you want accurate skin tones. In such case you should take chart photos in every location for every session, as mentioned above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felisek, post: 469054, member: 23887"] Let me reiterate what Blade Canyon said. If you shoot your chart during the "golden hour", i.e., near sunset or sunrise, the colour checker will try to compensate for the very warm light and make whites white. Other colours will be also change and the resulting picture will look awful. This is not what you want. I've heard an advice that if you want to shoot at sunset, you should come to your location in the middle of a sunny day and take a picture of your profile for perfect daylight calibration. Use this profile to shoot a sunset later. However, I find this approach excessive. We seldom need sunset colours to look faithful. Most photographers would tweak them anyway too look warmer and more saturated, or change them otherwise to their liking. Personally, I don't think you need a colour checker for this type of photography. Even daylight creates its own colour cast which you might not want to remove for artistic effects. I believe that colour charts are primarily designed for portrait photography, when you want accurate skin tones. In such case you should take chart photos in every location for every session, as mentioned above. [/QUOTE]

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