Landscape mode

[grandadraymond]

If walking round town just taking close up shots of buildings and people you left you camera in Landscape Picture Style from the day before would the results be ok or not thank you...Ray:)

[Terjay]

What?

[DStanic]

I think that's one of the "auto" modes.

Only way to know if they are good or not is to look at them. :P

[grandadraymond]

I think that's one of the "auto" modes.

Only way to know if they are good or not is to look at them. :PYes i have and i think they look a bit over sharp

[grandadraymond]

What?Hey??

[DStanic]

Solution- use one of the creative modes (av/tv/P/m- WHATEVER) shoot in RAW and adjust to your liking afterwards!

[egordon99]

I would be PISSED if that happened to me as I'd be stuck with JPGs instead of the raw. I'd find out who broke into my house and set all my bodies to LANDSCAPE mode instead of Av or M.

Of course, I'd probably realize right away when I couldn't set EC or select the focus point, or select the ISO, aperture, and/or shutter speed ;)

[tonylong]

Like you noticed, Landscape mode automatically sets jpeg values for things like saturation, contrast and sharpness that are designed to give an image "pop" for that type of shooting but may not be suitable for other types of shooting. If you leave the camera in that mode you get those results, and if you're not happy with them you have to do what you can in the computer. With a jpeg, you have less latitude in making those adjustments, but you can try various methods to soften the image. Just be aware that you will in one way or another likely degrade the quality of the image.

The software you have will, of course, determine what you can do and how far you can go to correct these things. If you have software with adjustable layers, that should help a lot -- a layer to apply a bit of softness, a layer to apply a bit of desaturation, a layer to try to tweak the contrast, juggle those together and you will likely get something more to your liking.

Others have suggested shooting Raw, with the reason that those values are not encoded in a Raw file and the Raw file has not been then compressed into a format (jpeg) that has now lossed valuable information and that tends to lose even more when you attempt to adjust it. Those are valid points indeed for the future. You can certainly get good shots from shooting jpeg but from there your latitude in making adjustments is limited, especially before quality begins to break down.

[grandadraymond]

I would be PISSED if that happened to me as I'd be stuck with JPGs instead of the raw. I'd find out who broke into my house and set all my bodies to LANDSCAPE mode instead of Av or M.

Of course, I'd probably realize right away when I couldn't set EC or select the focus point, or select the ISO, aperture, and/or shutter speed ;)I was and always shoot in av mode, but i had the picture style set to Landscape:)

[sued5320]

Are you using RAW or jpeg format? If RAW you should be able to change the applied picture style depending on what software you use for post processing. In DPP, you can select any of the available picture styles.

[grandadraymond]

Are you using RAW or jpeg format? If RAW you should be able to change the applied picture style depending on what software you use for post processing. In DPP, you can select any of the available picture styles.Afraid i was shooting in jpg:oops: