Canon Rebel XT vs T3i photo style

[ixiphoto]

So i've had a Canon Rebel XT since 2007 and it has been my main camera. Now I went off to the philippines this year and took very many nice photos, however I was thinking of updating since the camera is pretty OLD, the screen is TINY and you need to be extremely steady to take a sharp shot.

I looked back on the pictures I took and you can almost always see noise unless the scene and settings were perfect. I am by no means a pro or even close to amateur I can choose a good scene but just in the last year I have started to understand how to use the settings in my camera to capture said scene in all its glory.

So I started using my brothers Rebel T3i, it is a nice camera. Very sharp photos, autofocus is even better, reduced noise clear shots huge screen etc.

My only gripe is I really like the way a photo comes out with my older camera, they just seem a bit rustier and have a fade to them that gives them an imperfect look that gives it character. With the new camera, every photo is extremely clean and HD it looks to shiny and super clean, something that would look nice taking photos of technology or modern architecture. Most of my shots are on the fly of people in 3rd world contries working on car engines with no shirts on in the middle of the jungle or of a man walking his water buffalo to drink from a nearby stream. I included two pics I took with my camera when I was in the mountains during a cloudy wet day.

Do I just need to get to know the T3i better or am I out of luck?

[ixiphoto]

Well in that case you are probably right! I must have gotten confused.

[Peter]

Anyway, if you shot in raw, please use http://www.filedropper.com/ or another file uploading webpage to upload raw images.

[ixiphoto]

Ok will do this minute

[Peter]

Take your time. I will go out shopping some food.

Btw, you have different shutterspeed between the two cameras. That's why one of the pictures looks unsharp.

[ixiphoto]

Here is the link to the RAW photos, if you dont have a dropbox account for the Log in prompt just hit the "X" in the top right corner of the window and hit the download button.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9maxzzc2opqqtgi/AABKmkNh_3A32hqzdFTUb--5a?dl=0

[Peter]

The two first pictures from the two first of raw files.

The differens between them are the following:

• sharpning adjustment
• contrast adjustment
• saturation adjustment
• lightning optimizing (brighter shadows)
• exposure

[ixiphoto]

So what exactly are you trying to say with that?

[Peter]

Well, you can set your Picture style in your camera to let sharp up your image, more saturation and more contrast.

Or, you can start shooting in raw and use Digital Photo Professional and change all the things after you taken the picture.

[ixiphoto]

Peter, you have been a HUGE help I truly appreciate the time you took to share your knowledge. I think I have chosen to keep the T3i, and I also decided that I need to learn a LOT more.

Any useful resources you care to share? especially explaining AF mode and Mastering Mode.

[Peter]

Manual for Digital Photo Professional http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/8/0300004038/01/dpp39-w-en.pdf

And about the camera settings http://www.canonoutsideofauto.ca/learn/

When you think you mastering Digital Photo Professional, you may want to try other rawconverters, maybe Lightroom etc.

Here are two pictures from two other rawconverters: