Best 4x5 film for architecture?

[steve simmons]

Do you do a gray card or color checker shot to help balance the color after the scan?

For what purpose. There really is not a right or wrong color in these situations. If you have a calibrated monitor and experience shooting these situations, balance to taste.

Just my 2 cents.

steve simmons

[gregstidham]

My architecture days are behind me but, IMO, daylight balanced Provia has a nice neutral palette that can be adjusted with filters on location. A transparency offers a nice reference for the clients during pre-press work.

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Do you do a gray card or color checker shot to help balance the color after the scan?

I always use a 5x5 average picker along with the info window. I find a black point in the image and adjust with the color balance shadow option to within 3 points in RGB and then reopen color balance and adjust a white point in the image to the same specs. This may seem rather primitive, but I've used this method for what seems like forever, since PS 3, and press operators have often commented on my files being easy to deal with and color balance very accurate.

[Kirk Gittings]

Steve, Ed

On halogen or tungsten lit twilight shots with daylight film, I do use cooling filters to moderate the warmth primarily when the elevation I am shooting faces away from the set sun, and therefore is primarily lit by my halogens with little or no mixed skylight to cool the elevation down. Does that make sense? I don't use a gray card as I am not looking for accurate color ever on twilight shots, but mood and richness. If I shoot color negative film, I simply adjust the color balance to taste in the scan.

[gregstidham]

Ed,
I misunderstood your question about a gray card shot. nevermind.