Hi I have bought a Canon EOS 100D with Canon 18-55mm and 75-300mm lens I really don’t know what I’m doing, please look at the photos I posted. Why is the sky so blue etc. with the first pic which I took with a smartphone, and the second one with the Canon. How do I get the Canon to take a blue sky? Each time the sky is grey. I have only used Auto mode so far on the camera. Any help at all would be appreciated but please keep it as simple as possible thanks Adam
Hi Adam, firstly, welcome to the forum! The difference you see will be due to the different ways your phone and camera deal with the image. Your camera will have automatically applied a set of parameters to the image before saving it. It does this based on the phone manufacturer's idea of what you will want the output to look like. It is often good, but may not of course be the image you were hoping to achieve. The 100D does something similar, but to a rather less marked degree. I'm assuming that you have the 100D manual ( if not, a pdf version is available here: http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/0300010915/02/eos-rebelsl1-100d-im4-en.pdf . ) Page 101 of the manual deals with what Canon terms "Picture styles". These are the "recipes" the camera uses to enhance/process the image as it comes from the sensor before saving it. For the type of image you uploaded, the "Landscape" picture style would be the most appropriate. You may find that your camera is currently set to one of the other styles. Have a look at the picture style settings and take the same image using each one. Looking at the results will give you a feel for how each style affects the output. If you are saving your images as .jpg files, the cameras changes are "baked in" and cannot be undone. You may wish to consider saving the images as RAW files, which would allow you much greater flexibility to process the results to get the image looking as you want. Canon's own FREE software Digital Photo Professional (DPP) can help you with this, or you can purchase 3rd party computer programs (Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are very popular, though there is a considerable number of similar products available). The wonderful thing about digital imaging is that you can take as many versions of an image as you wish without incurring inordinate costs as you did in the days of film! So go experiment - you have nothing to lose! Good luck and most of all, just enjoy it!
Hi John Many, many thanks for your reply, it has helped massively already! I have downloaded the software and changed to saving the images as RAW files. I can now adjust as I would like, very happy Thanks again Adam
Even with film instead of digital, Sky can be a beast to work with somedays, you can expose the image right where you want it naturally, but depending on a number of factors (angle of sun/time of day/ etc.)..the sky may come a bit washed out for your liking. As John alluded to the phone manufacturer simply has machine learning that sees the green field and the blue sky and saturates it according to an algorithm. Photographers have been using filters for decades to work around situations like that, we have Grads , polarizers, and ND filters to help lighten an darken parts of the image( or even ad color tones to it). That is a whole new world you can jump to one day. If you shoot in the daylight like that a lot, you may want to pick up a circular polarizer at some point so you can dial in some to the image in camera, its like wearing sunglasses for your lens on bright sunny days and will do much for the blue sky. https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/...-stunning-skies-in-your-landscape-photography
