Each of these Picture Styles emphasises certain colours more or less than others. There are 6 different preinstalled Picture Styles to choose from: Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome. Contrast is slightly too high with tones either very bright or very dark. This is a typical Canon DSLR shot, straight out of the box. Click on any image to see an enlargement. We'll have a look at tweaking each setting to getting more colour out of your shots.Ī good tip for comparing the Picture Style settings is to shoot Raw and upload the Raw shots into Canon's Digital Photo Professional bundled software, where you can play with the settings to your heart's content.įor each image I'll use Canon's In-camera convention of reporting Picture Style settings, separated by commas: Picture Style, Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Color Tone. There are some subtle colour differences between the different picture styles too. In a nutshell, the basic reason the colours are so plain is because the contrast setting is too high. Perhaps they deliberately wanted to spur people on to play with the settings and understand how each works.

For some reason, Canon didn't preset the picture style settings for natural contrast straight out of the box.