Friday, May 8, 2009

"Picture Style" on Canon 5D Mark II

I just bought (and received) the Canon 5D Mark II. I hope that I love it, because it was a BIG investment.

Kendra, my associate photographer, and I have been talking a lot about color of images right out of the camera. It's interesting how each camera takes images a little differently. We wanted to find a way to make sure they are more similar an ready RIGHT OUT OF THE CAMERA...less editing = less time = less cost.

Here's my experiment tonight.
I went into my camera and changed the "picture style" several times to see how the colors would change. The camera was set at ISO 800, f/1.8 at a 1/40 on HIGH RES jpg (NOT RAW).

Hopefully, this will be helpful to someone other than myself. I learn better by talking through things, so I figured I'd do it on my blog.

PLEASE feel free to continue this conversation by writing comments on here about these settings...anything you observe in my images or things you've done on your own.

The image below was set with the camera setting "standard"
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 0
Color Tone - 0




The image below was set with the camera setting "portrait"
Sharpness - 2
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 0
Color Tone - 0




The image below was set with the camera setting "landscape"
Sharpness - 4
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 0
Color Tone - 0





The image below was set with the camera setting "neutral"
Sharpness - 0
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 0
Color Tone - 0




The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 0
Color Tone - -3




The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 0
Color Tone - 3




The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 0
Saturation - 3
Color Tone - 0




The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 1
Saturation - 1
Color Tone - 0




The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 1
Saturation - 2
Color Tone - 0



The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 1
Saturation - 1
Color Tone - 0





The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 1
Saturation - 2
Color Tone - 0





The image below was set at
Sharpness - 3
Contrast - 3
Saturation -1
Color Tone - 0

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