Each of these Picture Styles emphasises certain colours more or less than others. Contrast is slightly too high with tones either very bright or very dark.Ĭhoosing the Picture Style There are 6 different preinstalled Picture Styles to choose from: Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome. This is a typical Canon DSLR shot, straight out of the box. Click on any image to see an enlargement. A good tip for comparing the Picture Style settings is to shoot Raw and upload the Raw shots into Canon's Digital Photo Professional bundled software, where you can play with the settings to your heart's content.įor each image I'll use Canon's In-camera convention of reporting Picture Style settings, separated by commas: Picture Style, Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Color Tone. We'll have a look at tweaking each setting to getting more colour out of your shots. There are some subtle colour differences between the different picture styles too. In a nutshell, the basic reason the colours are so plain is because the contrast setting is too high. Perhaps they deliberately wanted to spur people on to play with the settings and understand how each works. For some reason, Canon didn't preset the picture style settings for natural contrast straight out of the box. This article will show you how you can knock the socks off your point and shoot with colour from your new DSLR. Why are the colours so plain? If you've just upgraded to a Canon DSLR from a point and shoot camera, you'll have noticed how plain your shots look with your new Canon DSLR.ĭon't fret because you've come to the right place. A Picture Style adds a unique look/feel to your still or moving images, and can be used to achieve repeatable and uniform results. I'm new to Canon, just got a used 30d, and was wondering how the Picture Styles feature works? I shoot RAW, so does it matter, or is Picture Styles.

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