 - Harriet Feagin  Contact Harriet Feagin Harriet Feagin's Gallery |
Style Setting I am trying to decide what picture style setting to use. Should it be Landscape, Faithful or Standard? I have done some research and have read different views. I am especially concerned with macros and floral shots. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Linda Chisholm |
Not sure if this will be helpful to you but all my macros and florals are done on the standard setting...I actually rarely take it off standard...I sometimes use landscape & portrait but mostly standard for everything else. I find the lens, aperture and ss are what I change instead to try to get the shot I am looking for.
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- Harriet Feagin Contact Harriet Feagin Harriet Feagin's Gallery |
Linda, thank you for answering my question. It pretty well confirms what I have read in my research and based on your photos, I totally agree. Thanks again.
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marylouolson.com - Mary L. Olson Contact Mary L. Olson Mary L. Olson's Gallery |
Harriet, I am assuming that you are not referring to the dial on the top of the camera, which can be turned to Flower symbol or a lightbulb shot, but the choices on the LCD menu. They are two different things. The dial on the top does influence shutter speeds and apertures, but the picture styles on the menu are simply processing "recipes" and apply primarily to how jpegs are processed in the camera. They don't do much (if anything) to RAWs. If you are shooting RAWs, which you should be if you like to mess around with your images in post, picture styles are not very significant. Even if you do shoot jpegs, you do not have to take a "one-size-fits-all" approach. You can change the style to fit what you are shooting and what suits your personal taste (which might be different from the camera manufacturer's idea). My recommendation would be to experiment a bit by shooting a scene or a person with different styles. Compare and see what each style does to the image and whether it is something you like. Hope this helps.
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
Agree with Mary -- those settings won't impact your RAW files, assuming you're shooting RAW. (And in fact, in your camera's RAW converter software - such as Canon's DPP - you can retroactively apply a Camera Style to a RAW image and see the visual results after the shot, immediately on your screen.) If you are shooting JPG's, those Styles can help you minimize post-shoot editing, such as saving you the time of boosting greens or blues, depending on the style you selected before shooting a sequence of images. Some cameras also let you further refine what each Style actually does -- such as if you find the default setting of "Landscape Style" too saturated in the greens, you can alter the default setting to lower that saturation setting, so that going forward, new JPG images shot using "Landscape Style" won't be as green-saturated.
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- Harriet Feagin Contact Harriet Feagin Harriet Feagin's Gallery |
Thanks Mary and Christopher. I do shoot raw always so the only thing I have noticed is that the Landscape setting produces color that is a little too vibrant for my taste. However, some of the macros here at BP are so vibrant, I was wondering if the style setting had anything to do with it. I did notice in Lightroom that I could select a different style after the fact. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. Harriet Feagin
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