Picture Styles and RAW ???

Are there any advantages; and, if so, what are the advantages of choosing a specific Picture Style when shooting in RAW ?

For the last few years, I have kept all of our cameras set on Standard; 95% of my shooting is outdoors, shooting everything from classic tractors to old dilapidated barns; the wife's photography is about 50/50 kids events indoors under weird lighting and outdoor family portraits.

Except for the odd camera that it refuses to acknowledge, all of our RAW processing is done with DxO Photolab II w/Prime (Prime makes all the difference)

After reading this excellent post/thread beginning, it got me to thinking that maybe there might be an advantage to using Landscape Picture Style:

https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=12919698

I am assuming that, if I start using a Picture Style, that I will have to change my favorite DxO recipe to accommodate.

BuckSkin wrote in post #19228840
Are there any advantages; and, if so, what are the advantages of choosing a specific Picture Style when shooting in RAW ?

For the last few years, I have kept all of our cameras set on Standard; 95% of my shooting is outdoors, shooting everything from classic tractors to old dilapidated barns; the wife's photography is about 50/50 kids events indoors under weird lighting and outdoor family portraits.

Except for the odd camera that it refuses to acknowledge, all of our RAW processing is done with DxO Photolab II w/Prime (Prime makes all the difference)

After reading this excellent post/thread beginning, it got me to thinking that maybe there might be an advantage to using Landscape Picture Style:

https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=12919698

I am assuming that, if I start using a Picture Style, that I will have to change my favorite DxO recipe to accommodate.

Not only do I use Picture Styles, I also use my own custom Picture Styles I've created in Canon's Picture Style Editor. And I do shoot in RAW.

Although Picture Styles can only be directly processed by Canon DPP, they do control what you see on the LCD or EVF. So I have created Picture Styles that look representative of my signature color grading. Clients can see on the LCD something very close to the final image (the Picture Style editor also provides contrast curve adjustment).

In addition, if you shoot video and don't want to get involved with processing C-LOG, the Picture Styles control the color grading and contrast of the video output. You can do some quite wild things with it, such as direct select color video output.

I use DPP for 60D and 80D generated images. When you shoot RAW, you can change the picture style after taking the image so the importance of the style isn’t critical.

The only important reason to select a specific picture style is that the embedded .jpg is based on that. That provides your preview on the back of your screen and the histogram. If you have the contrast cranked up it can affect the histogram or the blinkies indicating over exposure. Its not a big deal unless you are doing ETTR.

There are other reasons as well, like if you use DPP, DPP honors your picture style in its raw editor as well. This means you can get the pictures out of the camera more as you want them vs having to modify various attributes manually after the fact. "Get it right out of the camera as much as you can" type of thing...

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19228877
DPP honors your picture style in its raw editor as well....

Do most non-Canon RAW editors disregard Picture Styles ?

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19228877
There are other reasons as well, like if you use DPP, DPP honors your picture style in its raw editor as well. This means you can get the pictures out of the camera more as you want them vs having to modify various attributes manually after the fact. "Get it right out of the camera as much as you can" type of thing...

I just set mine to standard and leave it there. I do use DPP from time to time and it's simple enough to change to a different picture style if I want something other than standard.

BuckSkin wrote in post #19228885
Do most non-Canon RAW editors disregard Picture Styles ?

Yes, most can't read them in the RAW file.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19228915
Yes, most can't read them in the RAW file.

Do you know any that can? DPP is the only one I am aware of that can.

gjl711 wrote in post #19228886
I just set mine to standard and leave it there. I do use DPP from time to time and it's simple enough to change to a different picture style if I want something other than standard.

Like RDKirk, I have built some custom picture styles so that I can get different looks from different parts of an event or venue. Also, when I use DPP, and decide I want to run a new recipe across all the raw, I then have to reconvert all to JPG which could take quite some time. I prefer to get pictures in bulk all good in-camera as I can so I don't have to sit around and wait for DPP to regenerate 300-500 images, when I could have just selected the correct settings for each part of the shoot that day, and just use the JPG as is.

Different workflows likely dictate different needs however. The fewer raw files I have to change, the better unless we are only taking about less than 100 shots.

It’s a 4 year old article, but I believe the techniques at https://www.slrlounge.​com …in-camera-picture-styles/ are still valid.