That is not a typo... you can do a lot of "edits" before you ever press down on the shutter release (depending on your camera). I have a Canon, and there are 3 user defined "picture styles" that can be set up in which you can fiddle with contrast, sharpness, saturation and color tone. I wasn't aware to what extent you can get a processed look SOOC until I tried it for a get pushed challenge. Here is what I got by telling my camera what to do with contrast, etc before ever snapping the picture (I also had to get it framed exactly how I wanted it since cropping was also not allowed for my challenge)
Now lets see what you've accomplished by changing contrast, sharpness, saturation, etc settings in your camera!
@m9f9l yeah, getting this result got me stoked! Now I want to pre-process as much as possible (and probably always for b&w - unless I get Nik Silver Efex Pro, in which case I'd still post process a lot LOL)
Funny story Jeff; I was tinkering with my camera based on your advice and was really liking the effects, but I forgot to change back to "Normal" when I rushed outside to take some shots of burning boxes. What I thought would be super black and orange flames turned out to be very fine black and WHITE flames! Oh well, live and learn; thanks so much for the tips!
Amazing bridge shot Jeff! Love the overall tone of the black and white. A few months ago I discovered this neat feature in my camera as well and I love expreimenting with it. For example in this shot, I turned down the sautration to avoid the flowers turning 'yellow' and uped the contrast to help them stand out against the background all in camea. Fun feature.
@kimdelee wherever you go in the Nikon to set it to shoot in b&w should give you an option to define the settings. You might need to consult your manual or google it.
@grizzlysghost too bad you don't shoot in RAW! but I do really like this shot. I see where you were going with the composition and I can imagine the color of the flames, so I can see what you envisioned even though the color isn't there. In my head, the color version of this is amazing.
@sparkle@cheryllw I've also done a setting for portraits for when I want soft focus and a more pastel look to the colors (like when photographing children). I've used the settings for a couple of pro bono shoots so that I wouldn't have to spend any time post processing, except to fix things like drool or a smudge of dirt that wasn't noticeable with the naked eye, but the camera picked up on....etc
for Nikon users, the menu option you need to look for is Picture Control, that's where you can modify settings like saturation, contrast, etc. Not sure about other makes of dSLR cameras, but I think most people with a dSLR have either a Canon or a Nikon these days.
for those of you that do the camera settings challenge, you're going to be modifying these things in camera for your next challenge... I should have the new challenge posted later tonight.
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I will have to play around with that. I recently discovered i can use the flash at a lower intensity than normal...or higher if I am using my scoop!!
Thanks again for the tutorial, I was getting some great results before this shot! :)