Hello All, My wife and I are a couple of Canon newbies; we just recently finished a 2-day trip to Shenandoah NP to enjoy the peak autumn foliage. My wife brought her flagship camera, a 7D Mk II. The lens used was the EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM. The second day turned out to be mostly, if not entirely overcast. We're both learning the camera, becoming more familiar with its great capabilities. Based on the conditions, when going through the Picture Style Menu, we decided on "Landscape" assuming that setting would provide the highest amount of saturation within the available choices. Here's more info on the camera settings: Image Quality JPEG Standard (20M 5472x3648 [7642] (I know, I know, not RAW...) White Balance - AWB (would "Cloudy" have made a difference?) WB Shift - All Zeroes Here's an unedited, out-of-the-camera example: And with some adjustments in the basic Windows Photo Editor: The edited example isn't overexaggerated, it's what we really saw. Are there more suitable setting suggestions I can use that will more accurately reflect the scene without requiring an excessive amount of post-processing? Thanks to everyone in advance! Cheers, Allan
i have the M50 and shoot jpeg also, always on the standard / neutral setting, a quick adjustment i do if i feel the image isnt' matching what i see in awb is to flick through the wb settings and use the appropriate one, i moved my wb selection to the record button on my body so its at a flick. its usually only something i do for the odd situation when the camera gets tricked, remembering to take it out of a preset is the thing that i forget sometimes, normally if i have it in K mode for colour temp. obviously for most raw is the way to go but i prefer jpeg for my own reasons. nice pic btw
Beautiful settings make for wonderful photographs...this is one! A suggestion, while you're in "Landscape" picture style you can increase the saturation, sharpness, contrast and colors. That way right out of the camera, its closer to the way you want it.
Thanks everyone for the replies! Because of these I discovered the “INFO” button is then used to further adjust the individual settings from their default positions. I was able to make the adjustments I desired; for this trip, thank goodness for post-processing. Now we’ll just have to go back to Shenandoah NP again (where these came from)! And many thanks for the nice words everyone!
