Which color space do you use for LR and why?

Does their native ProPhoto play well with Photoshop?

Thanks!

Doesnt anyone use a color space?

sRGB

Keeps things nice and easy when converting to the web, uploading to WHCC and playing in various photo programs.

Johnny:

Thanks. So you have your LR and PS color preferences set for sRGB? I don't know as much as i should about color spaces, but there seems to be a difference of opinion regarding Adobe RGB and sRGB. Why do you choose sRGB?

Also - do you shoot RAW or JPEG? I thought I read that the ProPhoto has a larger color space that suits working with RAW files better.

I want to get this area down in my head. Right now it seems like black magic to me. I don't have the time to get a masters degree in managing color spaces but do need to get a better grasp of it and how it affects us as professionals. I want our work to look the best it can.

aRGB vs. sRGB is like RAW vs. Jpg... everyone has an opinion.

Adobe RGB has a wider color gamut - sRGB has a smaller color gamut.

I use sRGB to make my workflow easier... as I stated, WHCC uses sRGB for their printing.
Also, my book publisher takes sRGB and the web is sRGB - that way there is very little converting I have to do, which saves me time.

Even when I did my own printing, I used sRGB.

Now I used to shoot RAW exclusively - but have now been switching to a complete jpg workflow. And you can ask anyone who knows me, I preached shooting RAW very, very hard. But I find that with Lightroom I can get results that are just as good as my raw files, but with a faster workflow and less storage requirements.

All in all, what saves me time saves me money.

However, for my own personal work, I still shoot RAW and develop everything with the widest color space possible. Yet, it all gets lost when you print it anyway since most printers aren't capable of delivering the max colors our cameras are capturing.

Wow. and i'm just switching from JPEG to RAW at least for this wedding season. As much as I would love to say I nail every exposure...I don't. It seems that RAW gives me that edge to get more useable images for our clients. I know i'm better this year than I was last year and hope to keep progressing!
I know that RAW is not the magic cure to rescue an image that is not even close but having that little bit of adjustment edge seems worthwhile for us to try a few weddings on. I'm curious, what made you finally switch?

I know what you mean about storage tho. I back up every job to DVD right after i download the cards and the amount of DVD's i need to use is crazy. When we shoot, it is my wife and I, and this year our two adult children come and shoot with us for training so they can start their own biz soon! But that means I can have 4 cameras to get images from which makes for a very crazy week. That alone is tempting to switch back.

So if the color space gets lost in everything that we or the clients are going to see, then why are we told to spend all the time working on what the eyes cant see or the printers cant reproduce?