I didn't realize that the different picture styles vary so drastically. After hearing that the Landscape mode clips reds I decided to test this out. Here's a series of three shots all shot in different styles.
I do, but I've realized that ACR has no adjustment for this, making an initial DPP review a necessity for me now until I get used to this clipping of certain channels.
The other issue is that I took these three shots in each of these modes before snapping the shot, but if I take all three in DPP and change their Picture Style Settings to the same setting (Portrait, for example) they all look slightly different, which they should not. All have the same manual exposure setting and same white balance setting.
So, if I always shoot in Landscape, but I change the style setting in DPP (post-processing) to Neutral to eliminate clipping, I've just shown that it will not act the same as actually swapping the setting to Neutral during the shoot. Why is this? Isn't it manipulating the same data?
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on June 19, 2010 at 12:56 AM
Charles, maybe I do no understand when you say, "ACR has no adjustments for this".
Are you refering to Picture Styles? If so, check under the ACR Camera Calibration panel.
They call them "profiles" instead of styles, but the names are the same, i.e. Faithful, Landscape, Neutral, Portrait, etc. Of course, these are Adobe's interpretation of your camera profiles, probably not exactly the same.
Maybe I have an older version that came with CS3, but I don't see the availability under the Camera Calibration panel. Just ACR 4.4. I've tried to upgrade ACR in the past, but I need CS4 to do so. Maybe this option is in the next upgrade?
OK, I'm running CS4 and don't remember when these camera profiles/"styles" were first implemented. They are identical in LR2 and LR3. They do provide a nice place to start your RAW conversions.
Thanks for the info! I'm glad to know it is possible, but I'm still confused at why three photos taken in different modes, then changed back to the same mode in software produce different photos. Just seems odd. Oh well.
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The other issue is that I took these three shots in each of these modes before snapping the shot, but if I take all three in DPP and change their Picture Style Settings to the same setting (Portrait, for example) they all look slightly different, which they should not. All have the same manual exposure setting and same white balance setting.
So, if I always shoot in Landscape, but I change the style setting in DPP (post-processing) to Neutral to eliminate clipping, I've just shown that it will not act the same as actually swapping the setting to Neutral during the shoot. Why is this? Isn't it manipulating the same data?
Are you refering to Picture Styles? If so, check under the ACR Camera Calibration panel.
They call them "profiles" instead of styles, but the names are the same, i.e. Faithful, Landscape, Neutral, Portrait, etc. Of course, these are Adobe's interpretation of your camera profiles, probably not exactly the same.