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Started Mar 15, 2019 | User reviews thread
Swerky Contributing Member • Posts: 793
Re: Few tips about color

RLight wrote:

Siudare wrote:

Great update. I recently got this camera and wondered if you'd care to share your custom settings, particularly for Portraits and Landscapes?

Thanks in advance

I've been maturing in that regard. I've really played with custom picture profiles in the past, however, I've found it's a delicate science.

Couple tips regarding colors and the G1X III:

The AWB does sometimes favor a bit too warm on occasion outdoors near golden hour;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130836605@N07/47926417806/in/album-72157668971759307/

The above sample I had to correct manually and actually is a re-do in Post from my former Portrait sample of the same shot above if you want to compare.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/62435004?image=6

It was way to warm with AWB. Canon's usually good in this regard, but Golden hour and the G1X III needs special attention to get the most out of, being picky here, but then again most folks shooting the G1X III are likely astute in that regard.

Color temperature is useful here to remedy. This is one of the few things I wish Canon had waited 6 months for releasing the G1X III for so it would get the newer DIGIC8. At least we have something to look forward to assuming Canon continues the G1X series in the future...

I usually start with the default standard, and for portraits, I'll either end up with Landscape, Fine detail or Portrait, in that order. If you're a DPP4 user, +0.5 saturation in either Standard or Fine Detail is sometimes of use. -1 Color Tone in Standard or Fine Detail either by itself or in addition to +0.5 Saturation in DPP4 (as the camera only does whole value IE +1, +2, etc) works well.

I've found the G1X III and LR CC are friends vs my R and LR CC are not friends. I don't use LR (CC or otherwise) anymore, but for those that do, it works well, that is the both the Standard Adobe profiles and their, Canon, profiles at least for this camera. I steer clear of renting software though these days, and specifically Adobe.

Portrait often desaturates a bit too much, you can try Canon's own Snapshot Portrait and Studio Portrait. I prefer the former. Oh, Autumn Hues, that, gets some use.

Bottom line, there is no one size fits all. I'd say shoot RAW, and if you have a favorite, tweak it. Special emphasis on Landscape, and Autumn Hues, they work well as does Fine Detail. Don't be shy on trying +1 Saturation or +/- 1 Contrast either. Here's an example where I kept Fine Detail + 1 Saturation, bit of creative license though but that's part of the fun sometimes:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130836605@N07/42595216514/in/album-72157668971759307/

Landscape, fine Detail and Autumn hues will duke it out for Landscapes...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130836605@N07/47926413417/in/album-72157668971759307/

That was either Landscape or Fine Detail. Landscape gives emphasis to Blues and Green which you'll often find in Nature and skies, it also changes the contrast curves a bit.

I'm working on updating my Flickr Albums with new content for purposes of demo/samples for folks. My G1X III album has been seeing some love lately if you're interested...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130836605@N07/albums/72157668971759307

Great album! Sweet shots. I was wondering if that was the closest distance you could focus on at 15mm. Interested by the G1x III as a take everywhere quality camera. No news on a mark IV though and who knows what shape it would take. One question: do you think the smaller evf would be a nuisance for a glasses wearer? Thanks!

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