With a baked-in image style, you are not able to recover it. Say your sky is blown out, but you wish you could see some of the clouds that were there on the day. Now you ask, why is a flat profile important? Well, when you bake-in the color/contrast settings into an image (pre-set PP’s), you are unable to retrieve information that would be available if you had shot flat. However, when shooting for others, if the turn around time does not allow for colour timing/correction, I will shoot less flat (typically neutral). For all projects that I am producing, I always shoot the flattest image I can get. At any given time, I will have three PP’s loaded on my camera to switch between.įinal output also determines which PP I will be using. Wow, was I ever wrong!įor some shooting conditions, I find that some of the PP’s perform worse than others. I also did not really think that the results would be much different. I find that it all depends on shooting conditions and final output.įor the longest time, I had no idea that you could load PP’s onto your camera that were not pre-loaded.

One of the hardest parts about them though is picking the right one for the right job. Picture Profiles/Styles (PP) are meant to optimize the dynamic range in the image. With the introduction of the new Cinema Picture Profile, I wanted to do a quick post on MY favorite picture styles as well as how to use/install them. Canon DSLR’s: My favourite Picture Profiles Philip: I haven’t used the new “Cinema” picture profile, yet, but Preston has and he has written this post looking at it and other ones he likes.

John hope cinema picture style