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Canon EOS R1 Canon Portrait picture style ICC profile for Capture One.

The Canon EOS R1 Canon Portrait picture style ICC profile is part of the Canon EOS R1 Canon picture styles suite for Capture One, which emulate the acclaimed Canon jpeg color palette. The ICC profiles are designed to closely match the Canon picture styles in the Canon Digital Photo Professional Raw developer software (DPP). These profiles will provide your RAW photos with Canon’s cherished jpeg colors effortlessly in one click or provide a good starting point with a beautiful and natural color rendition suitable for further editing.

The Canon EOS R1 ICC profile picture styles are built with special attention to give your Canon EOS R1 photos rich yet natural colors with perfectly smooth tonal gradation in Capture One. The key to create a good camera profile is a controlled color target shot in ideal lighting conditions at high noon on a sunny, bright and clear non-hazy day. At this time of day, when the sun is at its highest point, the sunlight is evenly balanced across all wavelengths, rendering the purest white light while suppressing scattered light, which would ruin the color accuracy of a camera profile. The color target must also be evenly illuminated and the individual color patches should be correctly exposed and never display glare. The correct way to get even illumination and avoid glare is to direct the color target straight towards the sun and shoot the target at an angle wide enough to prevent glare, typically around 45 degrees. One must make sure that the black patches along the edges of the color target are deeply black and not washed out and that they all display near identical rgb and lightness values. Using a black box around the color target will shield it from reflections and objects such as trees and the ground which otherwise will reflect coloured light back onto patches of the color target it and thereby visibly worsen the accuracy of the profile. Using an industry standard color target such as the Calibrate colorchecker Digital SG will ensure camera profiles with a considerably greater gamut and richer tonal gradation than smaller target with considerably less patches.

I have worked with camera profiling for many years using various color targets and seen the differences in image quality they render. The Calibrate Colorchecker Digital SG will for example produce more natural and smoother skin tones and foliage with richer tonality than the Colorchecker Passport, if care has been taken to correctly photograph the color target. A common misconception is that one needs to photograph the target in the prevalent lighting to create a camera profile for that particular condition. For example, photographing a color target in shade, will yield worse or outright rubbish profiles, as will a target shot at sunset. A correct target shot at or around high noon will yield a profile covering all lighting conditions with optimal and most accurate profiles, since the spectrum of the sun is greater and more natural than any artificial light source.

Shooting the target at noon time is also essential to create camera profiles that render the sky truely blue. Most camera profiles do not render blue skies correctly, even those that come with various RAW developing software. Often the skies are too cyanish, giving photos an unnatural look. It took me years of unsuccessful attempts, trouble shooting and learning to optimise my setup and technique to get the true and pure blue sky color right in my camera profiles. For the truest to life blue skies, I recommend my Landscape picture style profiles, currently available as Capture One pro ICC profiles for the Canon EOS R5, Canon EOS R6, Canon EOS R10, Canon EOS R50, Canon EOS R50V, Canon EOS R100 and Canon EOS R1 cameras. I own or have used all of these cameras and shot a lot of images in every thinkable lightning scenario in order to optimise my profiles.

Available Capture One ICC profiles for the Canon EOS R1:

New Landscape Picture Style. Price: €49 (Eur) Introductory offer until August 31st. Regular price after this date will be €79

New Portrait Picture Style. Price: €49 (Eur) Introductory offer until August 31st. Regular price after this date will be €79

New Standard Picture Style. Price: €49 (Eur) Introductory offer until August 31st. Regular price after this date will be €79

New Faithful Picture Style. Price: €49 (Eur) Introductory offer until August 31st. Regular price after this date will be €79

New Neutral Picture Style. Price: €49 (Eur) Introductory offer until August 31st. Regular price after this date will be €79

New The Picture Style suite for Capture One, currently the above three profiles, which will be completed with Neutral and Faithful picture styles. Price: €149 (Eur) Introductory offer until June 30th. Regular price after this date will be €249

Included in all profiles are unlimited free updates

Example gallery of Canon EOS R1 portrait picture style ICC profile for Capture One