{"id":15070,"date":"2011-09-18T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=15070"},"modified":"2014-12-22T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:37:00","slug":"pictureprofiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/pictureprofiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon DSLRs: some of the best picture profiles out there"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Philip: I haven’t used the new “Cinema” picture profile, yet, \u00a0but Preston has and he has written this post looking at it and other ones he likes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canon DSLR’s: My favourite Picture Profiles<\/h3>\n

by Preston Kanak<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n

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. Picture Profiles\/Styles (PP) are meant to optimize the dynamic range in the image. One of the hardest parts about them though is picking the right one for the right job. I find that it all depends on shooting conditions and final output.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, I had no idea that you could load PP’s onto your camera that were not pre-loaded. I also did not really think that the results would be much different. Wow, was I ever wrong!<\/p>\n

For some shooting conditions, I find that some of the PP’s perform worse than others. At any given time, I will have three PP’s loaded on my camera to switch between.<\/p>\n

Final output also determines which PP I will be using. For all projects that I am producing, I always shoot the flattest image I can get. However, when shooting for others, if the turn around time does not allow for colour timing\/correction, I will shoot less flat (typically neutral).<\/p>\n

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. Say your sky is blown out, but you wish you could see some of the clouds that were there on the day. With a baked-in image style, you are not able to recover it. With a flat image, you have a much better chance of recovering the clouds — OR if you under or over-expose something, you have a better chance to recover information that would otherwise be lost.<\/p>\n

Comparing Picture Profiles (Cinestyle, Cinema, Marvel & Neutral)<\/h3>\n