standard, Landscape, etc.. settings in camera

[Cathrine]

Do any of you customize your standard, landscape, portrait, or neutral settings on your camera? Or create your own settings?

If so, what do you change the settings to? Do you maximize the sharpness (I have a canon and my maximum is 7)?

Thanks!

[dlambert]

My personal preference is to do that stuff in post-processing.

[LeeR]

The short answer is this; for shooting landscapes it is critical that you are in control of depth of field. That means you need to be able to set the aperture where you want it and let the camera set the shutter speed (aperture priority: Av or A on the dial.) Everything else the camera can do, sharpness, saturation, etc., is much better done in post processing where you have control over it. I would also suggest you read up a bit on the Zone System. I don't know that it is possible to create a beautiful landscape without an understanding of the principles of exposure control as taught in the Zone System.

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by dlambert

My personal preference is to do that stuff in post-processing.

Seconded. There are a lot of things I dont bother dealing with in camera (white balance, save a few exceptions; saturation, sharpness, etc). Shoot RAW, perfect in post.

[SusanH1970]

I keep mine in Neutral. I've found it keeps colors truer. I CWB and shoot in RAW and it's much more accurate, only minor tweaks needed in post processing.

[ravncat]

As the others above - I shoot in raw, and do all of the "tweaks" in conversion from raw.

I think, you may eventually find that one size fits all settings don`t really exist, and that holds true even within a genre of photography.

[SusanH1970]

Originally Posted by LeeR

The short answer is this; for shooting landscapes it is critical that you are in control of depth of field. That means you need to be able to set the aperture where you want it and let the camera set the shutter speed (aperture priority: Av or A on the dial.) Everything else the camera can do, sharpness, saturation, etc., is much better done in post processing where you have control over it. I would also suggest you read up a bit on the Zone System. I don't know that it is possible to create a beautiful landscape without an understanding of the principles of exposure control as taught in the Zone System.

DOF/aperture has nothing to do with picture style.....

[Cathrine]

Really??? You guys prefer doing the post processing rather having it set in the camera?

It seems that shooting in Raw is a bit overwhelming for me--especially since I am still trying to get focusing down pat. And to feel more comfortable in the manual mode.

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[ElCapitan]

Originally Posted by Cathrine

Really??? You guys prefer doing the post processing rather having it set in the camera?

It seems that shooting in Raw is a bit overwhelming for me--especially since I am still trying to get focusing down pat. And to feel more comfortable in the manual mode.

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I prefer doing it in post because that gives me the most control of my image. I want to see exactly what the sensor picks up and go from there, rather than have an in-camera setting decide how much to sharpen, contrast, etc.

Now if I had to send off the photos immediately with no time to process, then I would have to settle with jpeg and pick one of the settings, but I will almost always chose RAW over jpeg anytime. In Fact, I haven't shot a single jpeg in over 3 years.

[AdrenoJunkie]

I'm gonna be odd man out here. I prefer to do as much in camera as possible to shorten my time at the computer. Especially when it comes to white balance, because for one thing I suck at fixing it in post. Plus the closer you get it to begin with, the easier it is if you do hafta tweak it. As far as the picture style goes I thought it didnt work in camera if you shot in RAW, just because when I've changed it in camera I can't tell a difference. At least not on the LCD. But if you go under the calibration tab in ACR you can change the picture style there and see the difference it makes. That's usually the first thing I do when I start an edit.