What are picture styles?

Picture styles adjust the sharpness, contrast, saturation and color tone of your image. Just like editing programs, these setting have a slider.

Sharpness refers to the artificial sharpening and edge definition with the camera.

Contrast refers to the relationship between the darks and lights in your image. More contrast means the darks and lights are more defined. Less contrast makes the image more muted and matte.

Saturation refers to the power of colors and how vibrant they are.

Color tone is the adjustment of the hue (the attribute of a color by which it is discernible as red, green and so forth)

Default Picture Styles on newer cameras, there are six default picture styles built in the camera. Although their names gives a bit away about what you can expect from them, here they are in more detail.

Standard - This is the default mode of the camera picture style. Standare is set to be crisp and vivid, for the layman photographer to capture a high-quality image!

Portrait - As the name entails, portrait mode is for, well, portraits. The goal of portrait mode is to optimize skin tones and saturation. It also reduces edge sharpness to keep the skin looking softer.

Landscape - Nature photographers rejoice, the landscape mode is here to aid you! According to Canon, it produces ‘punchier greens and blues with stronger sharpening for crisper-edged mountain, tree, and building outlines’.

Neurtal -The neutral prictue style is excellent for photographer who prefer moodier results. Neutral reduces saturation and contrast. It can give the photo a washed-out or vintage look.

Faithful - The faithful and neutral picture styles are a bit difficult to tell apart as they are very similar. however, Faithful show you what you’d see when shooting under average daylight.

Monochrome - Exactly what you’d expect - black and white!