EOS R50- photo warmth

[juliettek]

hi there! 

i'm completely new to cameras and have a canon eos r50. i want to take photos with warmth on them and more color, less neutral or grey feeling; is there a setting for this? again, total new user. please help!

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Ensure you are capturing images in RAW format.

Then download Digital Photo Professional from the R50's support portal.  DPP is a post process editing software provided by Canon.  It's free.  Available for Windows or MAC.

Canon Support for EOS R50 | Canon U.S.A., Inc. https://share.google/zVLvh9mZRIzr5h53S

[stevet1]

Julie,

One way you can add a little "warmth" to your photos is to adjust your White Balnce.

Here's a page from Canon Support on how to do that on your R50:

https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART182870

Lower Kelvin numbers like 3900K will give your photos a blueish look. Higher Kelvin numbers like 6000 or 7000K will add orange to your photos.

Start out by using the presets that your camera gives you like Daylight and Cloudy, etc

For example, using the Cloudy preset (which has a higher Kelvin number) on a cloudy day will help bring out the warmer temperatures on a person's face.

Tungsten is a good choice for indoors because it's closer to the yellow light of your regular household light bulbs.

Steve Thomas

[rs-eos]

A simplistic way of adjusting how colors will be is to use Picture Styles (starting on page 236 in the User Manual). This works well if all you want to do is capture JPEG images and want to do minimal or no editing to colors.

WIth that said, for ultimate control, do use RAW as suggested as you then have way more freedom in adjusting colors during editing. You can edit JPEG images, but there will be limits on what can be done.

[kvbarkley]

Have you changed any settings? 

Is this in "A+" mode?

Are these with flash or natural light? Inside or outside.

Generally people complain that Canon's colors are *too* vibrant, when they complain.

[Tintype_18]

Good information from the members. Also and I'm repeating myself, experiment. I look at photos on the camera and downloaded to my laptop. Have fun and see what develops.😏

[kvbarkley]

"Good information from the members. Also and I'm repeating myself, experiment. I look at photos on the camera and downloaded to my laptop. Have fun and see what develops."

Good advice, but do NOT judge colors on the camera LCD screen. Use it for framing and -with a histogram, NOT the appearance on the LCD - exposure.

You also need to make sure that your computer monitor is not lying to you.

OP, you are not shooting in AdobeRGB, are you?

[BurnUnit]

". . . Have fun and see what develops."

I see what you did there . . . 😉