mffox Loc: Avon, CT

I set my camera on Vivid depending on the subject and what I see in the shot. Fall foliage might be a good example. It really depends on the light.

pep9454

Your camera's interpretation is 'burned in' and the reds don't do well when shooting in .jpg mode. You need to use RAW. The color profile your camera uses could also be clipped. Also, if your monitor has a small color profile, when a certain saturation of red is reached, it will just 'peg' the red and even if the file is ok, you won't be able to see the various gradations of red unless you print it out. Unless you have a high quality monitor, you're not 'seeing' all of the true colors that are in the file.

Take a class in LR and PS and learn the basics of how to use RAW. You'll be happier than trying to fix something that has already had millions of the colors thrown away due to the camera making the interpretations the Nikon engineers decided would be best for everyone.

When RAW came out over 10yrs ago, Most photographers thought it was a waste of time, files too big, etc., etc. I got on board early and I NEVER shoot in jpg mode. I've learned through years of experience shooting many portraits, weddings, and commercial jobs, you will waste more time trying to fix an OOC jpg than doing it correctly using RAW files and tweaking in LR and/or PS.

ugly Dan

Shooting in Vivid can be cool but one thing to remember. Vivid causes skin tones to be orange or goofy tinted. Suggest as others have to add the vivid tone in post. If you shoot your sunrise in vivid and then forget to change back and shoot an important event your skin tones will be terrible and probably unfixable.

Ugly Dan

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

If only you could write a logical sentence every once in a while.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Why, sounds logical to me.

If he wrote a logical sentence, you might /get it.

nanceh

One thing that I haven’t seen mentioned above is an electric strip with perhaps 6 outlets. Depending on the age of the ship and the cruise line, you may not have enough sockets to plug in multiple chargers for your batteries along with any phones, tablets, etc. the cabin attendant may have one to lend you or maybe not.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Wrong thread???

bwilliams

I use vivid when shooting jpeg. I think it comes the closest to the old Kodak Portora high contrast film I used when doing weddings back in the day

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

The key here is "canon's DPP editor." Not in the applications of other companies that I am aware of, unless perhaps this has changed, as things seem to be rapidly doing.

Jack 13088 Loc: Central NY

I shoot raw exclusively so it doesn’t matter that I usually set the camera to vivid. I do that bc it does affect the processing for the jpeg image displayed in the on camera viewer. And vivid is more visible in bright light. I guess it also messes with the histogram but I don’t examine it that closely any way.

pauken Loc: Minneapolis MN

I really like both of these images. I feel pulled into the image--almost immersed, like being there in the moment. Great pictures.
Re: VIVID. Yes, that really works here.
Since you like this setting, also try LANDSCAPE for a similar effect.
Shoot comparision pictures, first with vivid, then landscape and decide which you like.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The artist spends years learning to create images no one else could create in a life-time.

rcarol

My brother took a 3 outlet strip on a cruise but the crew took it from him then returned it at the end of the cruise.

Dickwood33 Loc: Alberta, Canada

Right on. My standard setting is vivid and I don't feel my pictures are overdone. Present cameras are Panasonic GX8, GX9, previously Nikon D7100..

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

You mean all editors and cameras don't all work the same way?


That's why when someone states (writes) "something happens" it helps to provide a bit of explicit details to try to reduce any ambiguity, confusion, or chance of misinterpretation.
Then, the people reading it have to understand correctly.
Obviously you understood.