Picture Styles

Picture Style, one function on Canon Camera's that you've gotta love~!!!

I knew it was on my 50D for quite some time, but never had the time to really get into it, till recently~
Picture Style is a mix of 4 different stuff there, Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation and Color Tone~ and each Picture Style has it's own special effects that you can use depending on the situation so create different moods for the picture, those that came with the camera is...

Standard - Basic stuff, not much changes in it
Portrait - Good for portrait pictures, gives a healthy skin tone feel
Landscape - Sharpens the picture and gives more green in trees, good for landscape taking
Neutral - Subjects are recorded in rich detail, giving the greatest latitude for image processing
Faithful - Accurate recording of the subject’s color, close to the actual image seen with the eye
Monochrome - Black & White, which u can change to different monochrome pictures =)

They are the basic settings, nothing special... till I found out that you could even download more picture styles for it~!!!

Studio Portrait - Same as Portrait setting, but more of a little studio effect
Snapshot Portrait - Good portrait setting when taking casual shots~
Nostalgia - Gives a mysterious dark and amber feel
Clear - My favorite setting!! Gives more dark but detailed feel in the picture!!
Twilight - Gives a magical purple feel in it, good with landscapes
Emerald - Not sure what difference this makes, but they say it's good with ocean photography
Autumn Hues - Brings out the beauty of autumn, too bad we don't have that season...

Yes of course to those who are new to this, it's rather head scratching isn't it?? Well I'll show the difference in what they can do =)
This is the standard setting, the picture might look too over colored, so I used Monochrome Picture Style
Woo =)
Sister and her Husband, it looks good but I want a magical feel to it so I used Twilight~
Notice the face and hair, even the background has a little purple feel to it, magical~
Another shot, but I decided to use Nostalgic to give an olden, gloomy feel to it~
Tada!!
My favorite setting, usually when taking sky pictures the picture wouldn't turn out as nice as expected, so I used Clear setting, perfect for skies and other stuff you would like to be darker~~
FOOOSH!!!
Snapshot Portrait, somehow I find it to be more fun compared to normal Portrait~
Well you've seen a little of what Picture Styles can do~ still learning more about them, but it's such a wonderful and fantastic setting~~ another reason why I love Canon Camera's!!

Chinese New Year pictures are turning out magnificent, I feel so proud of myself~ shall be showing them to you all ASAP ya~!!! XD