Comments on: Picture Style: How Do You Choose?

By: Nico Ghislandi

Nico Ghislandi — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:54:03 +0000

Hello Shane any chance you can make the SEAL RAW picture profile available for download?
thanks :)

By: Bill Hamell

Bill Hamell — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:06:13 +0000

Thank you :)

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:31:43 +0000

Bill Hamell. That is currently the only way to make custom picture styles.

By: Bill Hamell

Bill Hamell — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:11:00 +0000

Shane,

Is there any other software to make Picture Styles other than Canons Picture Style Editor?

Thank you,
Bill

By: Rey Espi

Rey Espi — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:12:40 +0000

Hi Greg,would certainly appreciate sending me a copy of your picture styles to reymdgm@gmail.com. Thanks much!

By: Doug Clevenger

Doug Clevenger — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:14:08 +0000

Shane… Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge! I’m wondering if you have made any changes to these settings regarding the 5DMKIII?

By the way, your film and behind the scenes piece on the Canon EOS-1D C was both awesome and enlightening!

Thanks and please keep up the great work!
Doug Clevenger

By: Citizen Shane – Interview With Shane Hurlbut

Citizen Shane – Interview With Shane Hurlbut — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:55:24 +0000

[...] See the picture style Shane uses on the Canon 5D Mark II here: hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2009/12/27/picture-style-how-do-you-choose/ [...]

By: Christoffer Fryd

Christoffer Fryd — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:09:42 +0000

Is it posted now, in 2011? If yes, through me a link.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:55:08 +0000

Benjamin Garvey, yes that was a typo, I set my screen to manual and ride the level between 4 and 5. So sorry about this. Please forgive me.

By: Benjamin Garvey

Benjamin Garvey — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:12:18 +0000

Hi Shane,
In your reply to Steve K., I was surprised you suggested to set the LCD brightness to Auto. Is this a typo?
How can you determine the correct exposure if the LCD screen is constantly adjusting to the lighting of the environment, and not seeing what is actually being recorded to the card? I thought that in manual mode,
is the way to go because the LCD screen won’t suddenly appear brighter when in a darker environment.
Wouldn’t that totally throw off what you think is correct?

By: Christopher Hughes

Christopher Hughes — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:19:09 +0000

Shane, Have you used the 60D any? I’m curious as to what you have found as a good around sweet spot for this camera? I’ve seen it mentioned about the, 550D 7D and 5D slight differences in contrast, but 60D still seems relatively new and not mentioned much. Any experiences with this camera?

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:36:38 +0000

Scotty C., yes, use the Neutral setting with your contrast around -3 and your saturation around -1, with sharpness at 0. Standard sucks. You will find this very appealing and give you the necessary help going with available light.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:28:23 +0000

Pete, That camera is a little more contrasty than the 7D, and twice as contrasty as the 5D. So I would try to bring lenses that are not super contrasty because the sensor will deliver that. I would go
-4 with and -1 saturation with Canon lenses. The 1.4 extender will soften the contrast and sharpness, so maybe -3 contrast with the extender.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:15:38 +0000

Hi Shane,
I’m heading to Argentina next week to film skiing and snowboarding. I have a Canon T2i, a 10mm Sigma, a 50mm 1.4 canon, and a 70-200mm canon with a 1.4 XTender. I was wondering if you still set your Picture Style to the same one as your April 6th comment post: Sharpness all the way to the left, Contrast all the way to the left, and Saturation 2 points to the left. If so, would you modify that recipe when shooting in snow?

By: Scotty C.

Scotty C. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:43:37 +0000

Hey Shane, I’m shooting a documentary in a few days and I just started tapping into the different picture settings on the 5D. I’ll be shooting almost entirely with natural daylight (a little help from some china balls here and there) and I was wondering what the best set up would be? I hate the way the standard looks. Should I use the modified neutral settings like you have pictured?

By: New work: Cultures Connecting promo video | Dan McComb

New work: Cultures Connecting promo video | Dan McComb — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:44:50 +0000

[...] One thing I discovered in shooting this project is NOT to use the superflat picture profiles that are touted by some. The results, even after a significant amount of tweaking in post, are, well, super flat. Especially the skin tones, which I’m not happy with at all. I’ve since getting much better results following the advice of people like Shane Hurlbut, who advocates a simple recipe. [...]

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:04:37 +0000

Francois, You are very welcome. The HDMI output it perfect out of the camera into a lighting monitor. I use the Dreamcolor HP 2480ZX. You cannot judge exposure off of an on-board monitor. They suck. They are there for composition only. So you have the LCD screen on the back or a lighting monitor. My picture style was done with in the inner-workings of the camera with the picture style editor. I did not use any software. Simple moves of bending the knee and shaping the shoulder a bit, then using the contrast and saturation levels. They are not extreme. You can still gauge your exposure off of your LCD screen very well.

By: Francois

Francois — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:53:35 +0000

Hi Shane,

Thank’s a million for what you’re sharing! It’s just fantastic, and a real blessing!

My question relates to the on-board monitor issue you were addressing above. I was wondering why I was getting the feeling that the scopes on my Transvideo HD6 were… “cheating” me… And to make I understand, are you saying that the HDMI output of either the 7D and 5D, even knowing that they don’t share the same specs, are both unreliable to evaluate proper exposure? That we should only rely on the camera’s LCD for proper exposure?

Also, on another topic, you were talking about the problems you had with the superflat picture style that you downloaded from the internet, and that it ended up being the wrong way to go. You then decided to create your own RAW look for SEAL… How did you do that? What software?…

Thank’s again!

Francois

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:06:33 +0000

Steve K, Hi Steve, you cannot judge color or exposure on any of those on-board monitors. They are just a viewfinder. 2.5X worked for my eyes the best. The LCD screen is the best representation of exposure and color that you can get.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:56:50 +0000

Thanx for the tip, Shane. A Z-Finder has been on my wish list for some time—seems they’re not currently in stock anywhere—do you recommend the 2.5x or the 3x?

> An on-board monitor will be way worse.
Not sure what you meant there. Sorry.

Thanks again.

Have a great one.

Cheers!