@Morgan_Hardwood I’d appreciate it if you could enlighten me…
I’ve found that if I don’t use my camera’s DCP, then often the colors I get are different both from my recollection of the scene and the camera’s JPG. Even worse, they often look “wrong” – green becomes yellowish, red becomes purple, etc, especially for colors that were very intense (saturated?) in the live scene.
When using a DCP, I run into these problems much less frequently.
Furthermore, I like to start from a low contrast, low saturation image and add contrast and saturation to my taste. That’s why my default profile is “neutral”, with the addition of the DCP (but without the tone curve), and a few other things thrown in there, such as sharpening.
So far I’ve been getting good results with this profile, but if it could be improved, or if I’m doing something suboptimally, please let me know…