I have been playing around with the settings for both Nikon and Canon. Tone adjustments, sharpening, hue, contrast, and more. I was able to get punchy colors right out of the camera with settings that I would have never fooled with unless I fooled with it, get it? I kept hearing that you want to keep your adjustments targeted towards the low side. I looked at some pictures in magazine spreads and saw new image styles as well as pictures that just hit you in the face they were so punchy. I was thinking to myself that I should try different settings and find out what the cameras are actually capable of. Plus processing sucks. If images out of camera were great and super minor processing would be involved ie..sharpening and crop, then I would be in wonderland. I must have taken north of 3000 pictures in the past 2 1/2 weeks and a bunch of them need to be processed. Now imagine the time you would make up if the camera had ready to show images. And I mean ready to show..They've got punch.
I played around with the settings for all my Nikon bodies and my Canon 5d. What I get now out of the cameras are "cross processed" like looks. Images that just stand out. I would try to achieve these looks in post. Top image Canon 5D cropped only for composition. Bottom image Nikon D2x nothing done.
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