Why are the colours so plain? If you've just upgraded to a Canon DSLR from a point and shoot camera, you'll have noticed how plain your shots look with your new Canon DSLR.

More ressources for additional information on blogs: Vincent LaForet Zech's Camera How to load Technicolor CineStyle into your Canon camera: Ensure that EOS Utility v2. Canon Clc 4040 Driver Windows Xp. 6 or later is installed on your computer Download the Technicolor CineStyle Picture Style file using the link on Technicolor website Connect your camera to your computer using. Canon 5D mark III + Cinema Picture Style. EOSHD Cinema 4 (a more muted and. Canon 5D Mark II; Canon 6D. The profiles are loaded onto your Canon DSLR via USB using the free Canon EOS Utility.

Don't fret because you've come to the right place. This article will show you how you can knock the socks off your point and shoot with colour from your new DSLR. For some reason, Canon didn't preset the picture style settings for natural contrast straight out of the box. Perhaps they deliberately wanted to spur people on to play with the settings and understand how each works. Well it worked for me anyway. In a nutshell, the basic reason the colours are so plain is because the contrast setting is too high.

There are some subtle colour differences between the different picture styles too. We'll have a look at tweaking each setting to getting more colour out of your shots. A good tip for comparing the Picture Style settings is to shoot Raw and upload the Raw shots into Canon's Digital Photo Professional bundled software, where you can play with the settings to your heart's content. For each image I'll use Canon's In-camera convention of reporting Picture Style settings, separated by commas: Picture Style, Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Color Tone.

Click on any image to see an enlargement. Standard 7,0,0,0. Canon Lide 100 User Manual Pdf. This is a typical Canon DSLR shot, straight out of the box. Contrast is slightly too high with tones either very bright or very dark.

Choosing the Picture Style There are 6 different preinstalled Picture Styles to choose from: Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome. Each of these Picture Styles emphasises certain colours more or less than others. For example, Portrait Picture Style makes skin tones more rosy, Landscape overlays a slightly orange-brown overtone whilst Neutral gives the most accurate colours. You can also download other Picture Styles from website, and upload them to your computer or camera. For accurate colours with a bit more pop to blue skies, I can recommend the Autumn Hues picture style from Canon's Picture Style website. The skin tones from this picture style are more natural than any of the built in picture styles, with no overtones. Standard 7,0,0,0.

Although the manual claims that Standard gives vivid colours, for most scenic shots you'll find that the colours are quite natural. Colours are neutral overall with just a hint of redness in skintones and slightly saturated reds. Portrait 7,0,0,0. Portrait saturates the colours by 1 notch over Standard. Skintones are hue shifted dramatically to the magenta side for pinker skin. Landscape 7,0,0,0.

Landscape saturates colours by 1 notch over Standard except for blues which are saturated by 2 notches to give bright blue skies. There is a slight orange-brown overtone to photos, most noticible in beige areas. Neutral 7,0,0,0. Neutral outputs all colours evenly so that there are no overtones. The saturation level is 1 notch lower than Standard.