question regarding picture styles

Hello guys,
I have a question regarding picture styles that is present on canon d-slr's
Until now i have been using "Standard" style. Does any one use custom styles on the camera or do you guys just take care of the settings during PP , same with White Balance ?? i do realize it is based on the light conditions at that point in time...but still...

the reason i ask is, most of the time when i try to shoot sunrise / sunsets...i end up with flat colors [pretty much like a painting . eg:- https://photography-on-the.net …63630&highlight​=trying+to].....most of the shots i have seen here are pretty eye catching and gripping color wise...i am missing out on something for sure....will be experimenting again this weekend. I would really appreciate if you can shed some light on this.

Hi Bhanu - a lot of folks use picture styles to great satisfaction.... it's pretty much a matter of taste and aesthetic opinion IMO. I've never used them myself, shooting every in RAW. Most of my social event and fine are work tends to be across a broad range of color temperatures and I prefer to set the final WB myself.

If the work involves bridal/portrait photography then I will be trying to achieve faithful "whites" and "gray tones." Typically I will have included a WB card of some sort in a "calibration" image. If I'm doing urban landscape/fine art, then my WB tastes are open to wide interpretation as well as individual exposure/brightness/sa​turation actions I will perform on various adjustment layers. In that case the picture style would pretty much be blown away by my PP efforts. - Stu

In DPP you can switch between styles.......Good learning aid.

If you shoot in JPG and find yourself wanting more contrast and saturation in some situations just bump up the contrast and saturation in a "user defined" picture style and use that when you shoot JPG in those situations. They work nicely in JPG shooting.

You should try shooting RAW or RAW + JPG and experiment with RAW. It's a good way to get WAY better images. You can set WB in post processing.