Reproducing Canon in camera HDR Effect on 6D

Setup:
I am a real estate photographer. My customers love the Art Standard HDR look from my 5DmkIII. I am looking to bring on a 2nd shooter and rented a 6D for the weekend to see if it would offer similar images.

Situation:
The 6D does not have a HDR Effect menu, but I have been able to tweak the resulting image using the Picture Style settings but have not yet achieved a 5DmkIII Art Standard look alike yet.

Question:
Does anyone know what settings for Picture Style: Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation & Color Tone would yield an Art Standard look and is it even possible?

Acknowledgment:
HDR purists, I know I should be shooting RAW on a tripod with a tilt shift lens but time is money and I can't raise prices so if I can get a usable in-camera image hand holding a 17-40mm and reducing my post production time, it means time with my family, not in my office.

Thank you for any help,
RealEstatePhotog

Have you tried using the DPP software supplied by Canon? It is likely you can improve on the "in camera" results. See the thread at https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1289162

John from PA wrote in post #16711921
Have you tried using the DPP software supplied by Canon? It is likely you can improve on the "in camera" results. See the thread at https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1289162

Yes, I have. The images are not drastically stronger from DPP and the time involved would cost more than the difference between the 5DmkIII and the 6D. 30 images / house, 700 - 1000 houses / year, 4-6 years / camera.

You might read through the 4 pages at http://www.learn.usa.c​anon.com …d3_hdr_capabili​ties.shtml and see what you can learn that might be useful with the 6D. I can't help thinking that you can't come close to what you desire if you can just understand what the 5DIII is doing.

I also see that over at http://photography.for​umsee.com …on-camera-hdr-effect.html you have posted the question

Just fooling around with DPP and creating an HDR image, then selecting Art Standard I get the the attached as at least some of what you desire. Perhaps this can be set up as a custom style or a recipe to be run as a batch process. There might also be some dedicated HDR software that might make the task easier.

By the way: What lenses do you typically use inside homes?

I'm starting up with some real estate photography as well.

John,
I have read everything I can find. As this is my full time gig, in the life span of a camera, the difference comes out to less than $0.50 / job so I will just get another 5DmkIII and go through this all again in a few years when a new full frame camera comes out. Thank you for your interest.

Very interesting that my post to here also showed up on ForumSee.com, they must be cruising with a bot to steal content.

Mike,
I use a 5DmkIII & 16-35mm f/2.8 L but I think you can get away with the 17-40mm f/4.

Enjoy

RealEstatePhotog wrote in post #16712407
John,
I have read everything I can find. As this is my full time gig, in the life span of a camera, the difference comes out to less than $0.50 / job so I will just get another 5DmkIII and go through this all again in a few years when a new full frame camera comes out. Thank you for your interest.

Very interesting that my post to here also showed up on ForumSee.com, they must be cruising with a bot to steal content.

So get your 2nd shooter a 5D3 and do the in-camera HDR over and over.

As for the 6D, the HDR merge can be done with whatever number of exposures that you want, but really, 3 should do it. You can do this from a single image in raw and just export three images, one at normal exposure, one at -1 (or more), and one at +1 (or more) based on how you want it to look. Merge in HDR software and tweak to taste. This will take longer, obviously, than just letting the auto in-camera software do it for you.

Photomatrix is inexpensive and does the job.

But if time is money, and you like the in-camera HDR of the 5D3, then maybe you should consider getting another camera that has the built in HDR feature. Obviously the 5D3 would reproduce the same kind of HDR. But there are lesser cameras in the Canon line with the HDR ability if you wanted to explore an inexpensive 2nd body just for this purpose.

Very best,