Was out earlier using my D7100 and another photographer was also there, he was using a Canon?? we where taking photos of the same things, but when we where looking back at them on our different cameras his colours looked vibrant where the colours on my camera looked lifeless and flat, could i do something on my camera to make the colours pop?
colours look flat
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BackdoorArts
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What profile were you using? Canon profiles tend to be more colorful and a bit warmer. If you're shooting RAW you still get your preview in the profile you're using, and you can adjust the contrast and saturation of those if you wish. Nikon has a tendency to oversaturate if you're not careful with those adjustments where Canon seems to keep that in check fairly well.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then read the manual and do some digging. Nikon Camera Standard and Camera Neutral tend to be rather flat by design, while Portrait, Landscape and Vivid all boost your color to some extent and in some ranges.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then read the manual and do some digging. Nikon Camera Standard and Camera Neutral tend to be rather flat by design, while Portrait, Landscape and Vivid all boost your color to some extent and in some ranges.
Even though you are shooting RAW, what you are seeing in the LCD screen is a jpg rendition which is determined by your settings set. They will probably be flat unless you do change your camera settings to Vivid or something other than Neutral or Standard, like Backdoor Hippy stated above. You can also set the sharpness to 6 or 7 which will also affect what you see on the LCD. I shoot with Neutral settings, but using PP for the RAW file the colors, etc will be adjusted as needed.
Don Kuykendall_RIP
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The way to set the profile in your camera. Yes it is for JPEG but as you have read it does show up on the LCD screen,
If you are shooting JPG I would suggest that you use the Fine>>Large setting and also set your camera for better sharpness.
Go into your Menus and highlight the "Shooting" menu (the camera icon)
Drop down to "Picture Controls" and click right one time.
From here, highlight "Standard" and then click right one time.
From this settings menu, increase the "Sharpness" setting to "7".
Drop down and increase the "Saturation" setting +1 notch on the slider.
Press "OK" to exit the menus and you're done.
If you are shooting JPG I would suggest that you use the Fine>>Large setting and also set your camera for better sharpness.
Go into your Menus and highlight the "Shooting" menu (the camera icon)
Drop down to "Picture Controls" and click right one time.
From here, highlight "Standard" and then click right one time.
From this settings menu, increase the "Sharpness" setting to "7".
Drop down and increase the "Saturation" setting +1 notch on the slider.
Press "OK" to exit the menus and you're done.
If you shoot RAW as you stated earlier, then you don't really need to worry about what the color looks like on the little 3 inch LCD screen. There are only two things that I check for back there. One is to see if I've blown the highlights(histogram) and the other is to see if I nailed the focus (Most of the time I only really do it on BIF shots, where getting the eyes in sharp focus is critical)
BackdoorArts
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If you're shooting RAW then the profile you choose makes no difference in your post processing, it only impacts the JPEG preview. Some editors are able to apply the camera profile to the RAW image - Nikon imaging software, I believe, does it automatically, while Lightroom/Adobe Camera Raw have profiles that are a close approximation of the in camera profiles.
For my workflow I apply "Camera Standard" automatically when importing into Lightroom since this is what I use in-camera. I sometimes will change this, but more often than not I just use the Develop module to adjust my colors from there. The advantage of using the color profiles is that your starting point can be changed in such a way that you can get more out of your sliders if you want to go extreme in your edits. For example, a high contrast profile will still start your Contrast slider at 0, so if you move it to +100 it will be more extreme than the same slider setting starting with a low contrast profile. That's a very specific and atypical use of profiles, but it's an example of why one might want to play with them.
For my workflow I apply "Camera Standard" automatically when importing into Lightroom since this is what I use in-camera. I sometimes will change this, but more often than not I just use the Develop module to adjust my colors from there. The advantage of using the color profiles is that your starting point can be changed in such a way that you can get more out of your sliders if you want to go extreme in your edits. For example, a high contrast profile will still start your Contrast slider at 0, so if you move it to +100 it will be more extreme than the same slider setting starting with a low contrast profile. That's a very specific and atypical use of profiles, but it's an example of why one might want to play with them.