Hello JimHess,
First of all thank you for your time and for your input. Unfortunately this is not addressing my dilemma... but english is not my first language and I just might have not explained my self that well.
I am not looking for automatisation of "the process".
What I want to know is how "the process" should be addressed / dealt with.
I will drop couple examples/scenarios:
1) when you work with film, you first colour correct the footage (normalize the image), then you colour grade the footage (adjust it to your liking or accordingly to the context). I am want to know how to do the image colour correction as it seams that every photographer immediately skips to colour grading the picture
2) another example: I know how to read histogram and the scene. I know how to adjust blacks, whites and I know where +- skin should reside. So I believe I can get very precise exposure. I want to know how to do this for colours and skin tone (=skin colour)
3) yet another example. I know how to in Photoshop get a read out on RGB values under cursor. Based on those values you can calculate if your image has correct skin colour and tweak the values accordingly. I don't know how to do that in Lightroom.
Basically my issue is that I don't know how to colour correct an image in LR. Everything I do (and most of the people I believe do) is just guessing or editing to their liking (which should be the next step)
I just want to get more technical and understand things and have consistency. Not within one shoot, but within my whole portfolio.
I hope I explained myself better.
Thank you
All the best
Krystof