As an educator, RC is well aware that photographers around the world train extensively and spend considerable amounts of money on equipment with the goal of achieving accuracy rather than hyper reality. Among all of the items photographers rely on, the most prominent in RC’s mind is the computer screen, which photographers spend the most time in front of regardless of their artistic approach. This means the display should be as faithful to the images captured as possible, whether for scenery, skin tones, or anything else. Color accuracy forms a foundation for good photography that an artist can then build on to express and develop their personal style, which RC refers to as wrestling with images.
Color accuracy relates directly to editing for RC. In his preference for a hyper realistic style, RC relies on accurate displays to tell him when he has reached the levels of pull (saturation) and grab (desaturation) that he desires for each photo. Banding and gradations are important and should be properly displayed for the photographer to make a judgment on whether an image is to be selected for a highlighted collection. Faithful and accurate post processing is more important when dealing with people, who often want the photo to represent their real world appearance, unlike scenery, which doesn’t mind image manipulation.
RC feels that he lives in a really weird world in his head, which leads to the painterly and hyper realistic style that he loves so much. RC doesn’t see his work as necessarily faithful to reality, with excessive tonality something he enjoys. His goal is to incite mood using a lot of color, and therefore he needs a display that shows him the full color range without compromise.