Canon T8I Setting for sharp fall foliage pictures

[jburch921]

Hello Canon friends.

 I recently bought a new Canon T8i following the advice from some friends on this forum.  I will be traveling to Maine in a few days and I'm hoping to get the best possible pictures from my new Canon T8i camera as possible. 

I went from a Canon Rebel T-3 to this camera.  It's definately taking a little getting use too.  I see it has so many more creative options to chose from so it's a little over whelming. I'm just looking for some basic beautiful fall landscape pictures.

Does anyone have any basic recommendations for settings to take some crisp fall landscape pictures without it being more that I can handle as a new-be with this camera?

Thank you so much for any recommendations.

[ebiggs1]

"I started using either Daylight White Balance, or Cloudy White Balance, they are coming out better..."

If you would switch to Raw, you can set WB anywhere, the exact place you want it, in post edit. Choosing Raw is the single best change you can do to make your photos better. Of course it requires you to post edit but you probably u/l the photos to your computer anyway. This makes the conversion process seamless and unnoticed.

In your editor simply look at the picture, you probably are already doing that, than click on the WB you like best.

[jburch921]

Thank you all for the suggestions we went to Vermont and Maine and I took pictures RAW. I'm hoping they turned out as well as I think they did looking at them at on the camera screen.

Now I have another problem. I loaded the pictures on my computer and they are in a CR3 format. Which I am unable to open them to see the pictures. So bummed.

Does anyone know how I can open these into a jpeg file or any file so I can actually look and edit them? Help anyone. I've already spent hours trying to figure this out.

[jburch921]

Looking for help with CR3 format. I'm trying to open the pictures but am unable to do so with this format. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jrhoffman75]

What software are you using?

Download and use the free Canon DPP software. 

[jburch921]

I loaded the pictures using the SD card directly onto my laptop. From there it went to a EOS digital (F) drive. This is where all my pictures ended. I tried using a cut a paste to another file to change them to a jpeg file but that's where I'm stuck at the moment. So frustrating. I didn't having this issue loading with my old Canon T-3

[jrhoffman75]

Start from scratch. Download the RAW files to your computer into a newly created folder 

Then use Canon DPP to open the files. 

You can't cut and paste a RAW file and turn it into a JPEG file. 

[jburch921]

I downloaded the SD card and the files are I the EOS Digit (F) dCMI 100CANON file. This is where they are automatically going. If I download a Canon DPP will I be able to load the files onto to Canon DPP file? I've been trying to get these files open for hours know. I had no idea shooting these pictures raw instead of jpeg would be such a headache.

[Tronhard]

If you are using windows 10 you can download a cr3 file conversion tool for ms. Is you do that you can see the files in a file manager preview window as well as photo viewer.

[jrhoffman75]

Based on what you wrote I think you are looking at the camera SD card and not downloaded images.

Here is how my camera card shows up:

The DCIM folder is where the camera stores the images. 

Inside the DCIM folder there is a folder 100CANON

Inside that folder will be your image files. 

My folder is empty now, but if I had images they would be there.

How are you downloading the images?

[jrhoffman75]

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@Tronhard wrote:
If you are using windows 10 you can download a cr3 file conversion tool for ms. Is you do that you can see the files in a file manager preview window as well as photo viewer.

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Hi. I think you may mean this product.

It doesn't convert .CR3 files but it will allow you to see the actual image and not the file icon.