picture style question

So what does everyone have it set at. I went with 6 on sharpness and 1 on saturation. Also does it really do anything different and is there such thing as to much? Like why not just put sharpness all the way up or does quality get effected? I'm trying to learn this 50D quick just got it and havent had time to play with it and have a shoot some pictures at the track. Right now like i said its 6 sharpness, 1 saturation, and pic is landscape on my custom setting or should I just drop back to something else for tomorrow?

I would highly recommend shooting raw.

Now that the automatic "shoot raw" comment has been offered, perhaps I can help with your questions.

If I read you right, you have the picture style set to Landscape. That's not really a good choice at the track (cars, motorcycles, karts?). Landscape mode emphasizes blues and greens, which may give you some odd results.

I'd suggest Standard for a start - it gives a normal-looking color balance, with a modest amount of sharpening (3). You can add sharpening as desired with custom adjustments, but you can get very unnatural edges with oversharpening. If you have too much sharpening in-camera, you can't really undo the result.

If you want to get away with no post-processing, maybe your setting of 6 would work. You can try it. But PP is going to be required anyway, for most work, so I advise doing final sharpening in PP after you've done all other adjustments (especially after resizing).

Here's a good overview of picture styles: http://www.usa.canon.c​om …style/shooting/​index.html

-js

Theres a reason why certain answers are automatic ...

the link didnt work, but I didnt also know landscape only brought out the blues and greens. Someone told me it brings out the colors the best. I will change that choice back to standard with sharpening at 4 or 5 with saturation plus 1

Hmmm. The link works for me. It's Canon's tutorial site. Try this link: http://****/b4d78p

-js

airfrogusmc wrote in post #7222091
Theres a reason why certain answers are automatic ...

Sure. They don't require any thought.

Ruckus99ss wrote in post #7222105
the link didnt work, but I didnt also know landscape only brought out the blues and greens. Someone told me it brings out the colors the best. I will change that choice back to standard with sharpening at 4 or 5 with saturation plus 1

That should give you a nice, snappy shot straight from the camera.

What kind of track are you shooting at?

-js

number six wrote in post #7222137
That should give you a nice, snappy shot straight from the camera.

What kind of track are you shooting at?

-js

1/4 mile drag strip during the day. Thinking auto ISO and a 1/400 or 1/600 shutter speed with auto iso since I hard it works great on these cameras...later on in the day might go manual it should be bright should should be able to get away with a lower iso i would imagine

Post some of your shots when you get back!

-js

If you are shooting JPEG and adjusting the picture styles, there is no definitive answer. You will need to adjust sharpness, contrast, saturation to how you want the final image to look like. Too much sharpening can result in noise/artifacts, so it may be better to error on the side of being conservative and adding them later during post processing rather than adding too much on the camera and then having noise/artifacts which may not be removed so easily.

I'd say experiment. When I do sometimes play with picture styles, I personally find the pictures styles a bit conservative and tend to push up the sharpenss,saturation, and contrast. I tend to go up on the sharpness to about 5 or 6 and the saturation and contrast to about 4 or 5. I also shoot in RAW, so I can easily reset every thing to neutral style with nothing added.

I also only shoot raw, i skip the jpeg shots. I'd rather keep an extra memory card handy then shoot jpeg

number six wrote in post #7222132
Sure. They don't require any thought.

No thats not it. Because its the right answer. Raw= more control....

Just tweaking you a bit, frogger...

touche. well put.

airfrogusmc wrote in post #7224602
No thats not it. Because its the right answer. Raw= more control....