PICTURE STYLE? what do u use?

hey guys i have a canon t1i... and i was just fooling around with the different picture styles options in the camera.. (standard, mono, portrait, user def. etc.)

and i was wondering what you guys do or use?

i was wondering this b/c in customizing ur own user def. .. bring up the sharpness.. contrast, saturation... wouldnt it help ease the post processing?

any thoughts?

I mostly use landscape for outside shots. Do not use for inside shots though. I also have sharpness set to 5 and saturation one higher than default.

.... and shoot in RAW.
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I was about to ask the same question but looks like the OP beat me to it. Im also interested in hearing what folks here use and had changed on the default settings.

I know most folks do RAW here but if you do RAW+JPEG what would you suggest so you get the sharpest pix right out of the camera, without being overly internally processed?

Which Picture Style setting is best for:

Landscapes?
Portraits?

salsaguy
Canon T2i / 15-85mm / 50mm

There are more picture styles here in case noboby one knew
http://web.canon.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/index.html

Here are some settings I use with my 450D-
Standard (for outdoor portraits)
Contrast -4
Saturation 0
Color Tone +3
Sharpness +7

Landscape (Brighter greens, yellows and blues. Can also be used for portraits)
Contrast -4
Saturation 0
Color Tone +3
Sharpness +7

Faithful (suits more for indoor shooting)
Contrast -4
Saturation 1
Color Tone +4
Sharpness +7

The Color tone setting can easily make skin tones quite red, even at 0 for the 450D. Interestingly, I don't like the skin tones with the Portrait picture style. Very pale.

The most convenient way for tweaking Picture style settings is to shoot a few RAW shots and then play with the Picture style settings in DPP. The settings in DPP have the exact same effect in the camera. With just 1 RAW shot you have all the picture style settings and options at your disposal. Eventually you should find a couple of settings that you can use generally.

Here are some customised picture styles for the 450D. Can be used with other Canon DSLRs but might not turn out the same. Be sure to test out before shooting critical events. Safest is to shoot these Pictures Styles in RAW so you can revert to Factory Picture Styles if necessary.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nz53dzvm1jg/Faithful +4 Red Adjust2.pf2
Corrects red tones when using Faithful with Color Tone +4.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/df8p8on4s4ps2os/Standard +3 Green Boost.pf2 Corrects red tones when using Standard with Color Tone +3 with slight boost to Green tones for greener foliage. An alternative to Landscape.

I am currently tweaking a Picture Style to bring midtones closer to highlights for outdoor shooting. Still a work in progress.

Standard outside and nuetral or faithful inside.
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PhilPreston3072 said:

Here are some settings I use with my 450D-
Standard (for outdoor portraits)
Contrast -4
Saturation 0
Color Tone +3
Sharpness +7

Landscape (Brighter greens, yellows and blues. Can also be used for portraits)
Contrast -4
Saturation 0
Color Tone +3
Sharpness +7

Faithful (suits more for indoor shooting)
Contrast -4
Saturation 1
Color Tone +4
Sharpness +7

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can you post some sample pics using these settings.

I shoot Neutral and in RAW. Then you can make your adjustments as you like.

svetimas said:

I shoot Neutral and in RAW. Then you can make your adjustments as you like.

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Dito for me as well. played around with different combinations in with different picture styles until i finally settled on the neutral setting for the same reasons 'svetimas' put. According to the Canon based info ive read, neutral allows you to capture the widest color range and frequencies allowing you more lattitude in post processing. a better starting point if you will. I find this to be a true.
Neutral:

contrast -3 to -4 (if its bright and sunny w/ deep, long shadows or harsh lighting)
Saturation +2 (works for my tastes, possibly a +3 i.e. landscape perhaps)
Sharpness +7 (rarely print jpeg out of camera but when i do i like it sharp)

Tone 0 (only occasionally will this be pushed to +1 in post only, again if the subject warrents it. skin tones can become too red and too green/yellow rather quickly).

After experimenting for some time i have settled on this setting for now. it could change i suppose. I use the open/custom picture styles in camera and set them to neutral as well with slight variations such as the contrast and saturation so i can change to match the setting instantly. ive found these settings work just fine in all different kinds of lighting conditions, indoors or out.

let me know if you find these settings agreeable.
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GuardianFlash said:

PhilPreston3072 said:

Here are some settings I use with my 450D-
Standard (for outdoor portraits)
Contrast -4
Saturation 0
Color Tone +3
Sharpness +7

Landscape (Brighter greens, yellows and blues. Can also be used for portraits)
Contrast -4
Saturation 0
Color Tone +3
Sharpness +7

Faithful (suits more for indoor shooting)
Contrast -4
Saturation 1
Color Tone +4
Sharpness +7

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can you post some sample pics using these settings.

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Differences will be more clearer when enlarged:





Standard (Factory settings except sharpening +7)





Standard, Contrast -4, Color Tone +3, Saturation 0, Sharpening +7





Same as above with slight green saturation edited in Picture Style Editor





Landscape, Contrast -4, Color Tone +3, Saturation 0, Sharpening +7





Faithful, Contrast -4, Color Tone +4, Saturation +1, Sharpening +7

I like Faithful.

Some information:

• Here is the official "Picture Styles" home-page.

http://www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/index.html

• Also min 18 to 29 of the following DPP video-tutorial are about Picture Styles.

http://www.video.bhphotovideo.com/?fr_story=6705482e45f83bfb581744e6bbf1bee3836e657f&rf=sitemap

• If you shoot RAW you can freely change the picture style in DPP afterwards.

• "Standard" emulates Kodak's Ektachrome 100 slide film. "Portrait" and "Landscape" are told to emulate other popular film emulsions.

• "Standard" is a bit contrasty and colour-satutated, what might lead to channel clipping sometimes.

• "Neutral" is tweaked to preserve the most information in the RGB output (JPEG or TIFF). If you shoot JPEG but want to be able to do some post-procesing afterwards then "Neutral" is a good choice.

• "Faithful" is told to be the closest to the human-eye response. It uses the same tonal curve as "Neutral" but colour tone and saturation is slightly different. It is much less contrasty and saturated then "Standard" (therefore less prone to clipping).

• If you shoot video then "Picture Styles" are the only way to influence the output. The video community has published a number of customer-made picture-styles lately. Check the thread below.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=35913343

Regards, Anonimo.