The most underrated camera function 

Thank you, that's very nice of you to say. I just take the approach that I only put out videos that I think will help people. It's nice to know that people appreciate this. Thanks for watching.

You're right! I haven't deen any youtuber who give the same advice..

Don’t forget Gordon Laing! Both great creators!

Simply not true. There are plenty of talented photographers giving great free advice on RU-vid. Paul Miguel and Jan Wegener spring to mind.

Thanks Mark. Whilst I do make videos on editing, my aim is to do as much in camera as possible - it gives me more time out in nature and less time sat behind a computer screen. Thanks for watching.

Hi. Thanks, I'm glad you like the images. But I only ever shoot RAW, never JPG. The colour profiles are baked into the JPG - ie they can't be changed in the JPG. But the raw file carries the colour profile information with it, which can be automatically applied in post processing. It works in exactly the same way it does when you change the white balance or aspect ratio in camera.

I may sound crazy, but since i have a possibility to use these settings in 80% of the situations I don’t even need raw. You need to pay attention to what you’re photographing. RAW is like a “cheat” at some point. In the end, it’s just my personal opinion ☺️

@@WalksOnTheWildSide In the case of Sony, do these colour profiles even apply to raw image? My understanding is that they would be lost and only apply to the jpeg preview. You'd need to re-apply them for raw image in post processing. At least that seems to be the case if the first step of your workflow is importing into Lightroom. It would be a different story if you use camera manufacturer's own software to process raw.

Well, should have finished the video before commenting. On the other hand, even if you are using the lightroom process and have to reapply the profile in post-processing, having the colour profile applied to jpeg preview forces you to make a decision about your colours on the spot. Creatively, this definitely has an advantage over trying out different (sometimes random) profiles in post processing. You are soaked in the atmosphere on the scene. There are more "information" or context to help you make your decision. In post processing, you are just staring at an image.

@@arunasstaponas5704 Why is it a "cheat" ?

Hi Andrew. That is lovely to read. Thanks so much for your comment and I'm pleased you're enjoying the videos. Thank you for watching and for being a subscriber. Much appreciated.

Awesome, I'm pleased the videos are helpful. Good luck with your new found hobby - careful, it gets addictive. Hopefully see you back here some time. Thanks for watching.

Hi Tamara. Thanks, I remember writing to you about colour profiles some time ago. I said I'd make a video about it one - that's finally come around. I think you'll really enjoy playing with these out in the field. I hope all's well with you and thanks for watching.

Hi Susan. Welcome along. Thank you so much for your lovely comment and for watching my video.

Hi Matt. I appreciate your comment, and I totally recognise that there are other ways to achieve this, such as doing it in post processing or creating your own profiles. But there are a couple of things I need to pick up on. Raw files don't have sidecar files until they are edited. It's the editing process that creates the sidecar (such as an XMP for example). The colour profile data is contained in the raw file so that it can be automatically applied by editing software if you set up the software to do so, and the software has the capability to do so. It's exactly the same as changing the aspect ratio in your camera or the white balance. Nothing affects raw files directly, because raw files aren't images - they are unprocessed image data - just data, some of which includes the colour profile. Thanks for watching and your comment.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Yes, sorry, I should have been more specific with regards to sidecar portions of the RAW file that are basically ignored by 3rd party image processors, rather than an explicit actual meta file. I still find it an anecdotal feature for RAW shooters though, where as for anyone shooting JPG it should be essential knowledge. I've watched a few of your videos and its nice to get my wildlife and other photography skills and knowledge refreshed.

Awesome, I'm pleased it's helpful. Thanks for subscribing and watching.

That's awesome, glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for watching.

Hi John. I'm pleased you like it, much appreciated. Thanks for watching.

Hi Arunas. That's good to hear, glad you also enjoy using these profiles. Thanks for watching.

Cheers Andy. Have fun playing around with them. Thanks for watching.

Hi Athar, I'm glad its useful to you. Thanks for watching.

Hi Paula. I'm pleased you found it useful, thanks for watching.

Hi Paul. Awesome, I'm pleased it is helpful. Thanks for watching.

Hi Davey. Thanks glad you like it. You're right, the Adobe profiles are their versions of the manufacturer ones - but they're pretty close though. Most things in third-party software are reverse engineered because the camera manufacturers don't share these kind of details. It's worth experimenting with to see the minor changes you can use that make a big difference to the finished image. Thanks for watching.

Thanks Barry. Have fun with it. Thanks for watching.

Hi John. Just to be clear, things like the colour profiles are embedded in the JPG, but appended to the RAW file. So what that means is that if the third party software can read and interpret the colour profiles, they can be applied. But because they're not embedded in the raw file they're not automatically applied. You have to do a couple of clicks (shown in the video) to make it happen. Adobe and Luminar can definitely read them, but I'm not sure about all the others. Thanks for watching.

Thanks (I think). It's really not an expensive lens at all. Most of these were taken with the Sony 200-600mm - a very affordable super telephoto zoom.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide I think the term affordable is rather relative.

@@MoLetalis I guess if it's not $10k, it's affordable :D

@@calebholdsworth4476 >>affordable after another dream comes true. But these photos were superb

The lens comment seems quite rude.

Thanks Raymond. They’re definitely worth playing with and getting to know each one well. I hope you enjoy using them again. Thanks for watching.

Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

Hi Sigurd. That's very kind. Glad you liked the video and thanks for watching.

Hi Kevin, that's great. Glad you're enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching.

All this can be explained in 3 minutes, not 18 minutes so he's more suitable for politic not teacher, lol

So nice of you, I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

Hi Mike. My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

Hi Steve. Much appreciated, thanks for watching.

Ji Joe. Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

Good stuff. Have fun with it Bob and thanks for watching.

Hi Debbie. I'm glad you found it useful, thanks for watching.

Definitely worth it. They're great and you can apply them to your raw files.

Hi Sarah. Awesome, I'm pleased it's helpful. Thanks for subscribing and watching.

Hi Tor. That's one of my favourites too. Thanks for watching.

Hi Christian. Awesome, I'm pleased it's helpful. Welcome to the channel. Thanks for subbing and watching.

Thanks for watching.

Hi Larry. Glad you found it useful. We're all learning all the time, or hopefully should be, I certainly am too. Thanks for watching.

Hi Diane, thanks for your comment and for watching.

Hi. Glad to hear that there are others out there that use this too. Thanks for watching.

I'm pleased you like it. Thanks for watching.

That's great, thank you so much.

Thanks for the info and thanks for watching.

Thank you for your lovely comment and for watching.

Hi Phil. Let me help you, if I can. Do you get any errors when you try to install the software. What happens after you've downloaded it and tried to install it? I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and thank you so much for your lovely comment.

I'm glad you found it useful, thanks for watching.

Hi Andrew. I'm glad you found it useful. These profiles are definitely worth experimenting with. Thanks for watching.

Hi Kevin. Glad you found the video interesting. I almost exclusively photograph wildlife (with a few landscapes and macro photos thrown into the mix and there are very few photos where I don't use these profiles. But I recognise that it depends how you work. If you walk around getting different photos of things you encounter on your journey, this might not work for you. But I take a much more planned approach to my photography, as I outlined in the final section of the video ( 16:26 onwards) so I probably only change the profile 4 or 5 times in a whole day. Thanks for watching.

😂😂😂Canon's have got the Jason Statham profile??? Cheers Peter, thanks for your comment and for watching.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide haha they don’t have it just yet:)

Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

Thanks Giuseppe. It's really worth trying the others, but also adjusting the contrast and saturation. It often helps me a lot if the background is very contrasty. Thanks for watching.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide I'll check those options as well Scott 🙂

Hi George. That's great. I'm pleased you found it interesting and glad you like the photos. Thanks for watching.

Hi. Good point, thanks for sharing.

Wonderful. I'm glad you're finding it useful. Thank you for watching.

I'm pleased you like it. Thanks for watching.

Thanks Christopher.

Hi. I'm glad you found it useful, thanks for watching.

Hi Douglas, it can definitely get nerdy and technical if you allow it to. But it's much more fun to just enjoy capturing nice pictures. Thanks for watching.

Hi Shannon. Gotta love the little green fellow (or is it a girl? I'm not sure!) Thanks for watching.

Hi Linden. Good stuff. I'm sure you'll have fun with it. Thanks for watching

Hi Dhaval. Awesome, I'm pleased it's helpful. Thanks for subbing and watching.

Hi Noel. I'm pleased you like the photos. Thanks for watching.

Hi Mario. It's my pleasure. Thanks for watching.

Hi. Thanks for subscribing and watching, and also for your very nice comment. I've not used the A7RIV since it first came out when I took it out for a test run for the day. It would be interesting to see the changes, but I'm also interested in what they've got in store for us with the A7RV.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide yes, and i’m sure they both have the same *new* color profiles. looking forward to your video on them at some point!

Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

Hi Joshua. I'm pleased you like it. Thanks for watching.

Thank you. Definitely worth experimenting with. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching.

What makes you think I don’t shoot raw? I explicitly talked about how I use these profiles with my raw files. Maybe you only watched part of the video.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide When I “watch” RU-vid videos I usually have them on while doing something else. It leads me to miss some of what is being said. That is on me! Sorry about that.

Hi Robert. Wow, that's high praise. I'm glad you found it useful, thanks for watching.

Hi Dean, yeah that one does get frustrating. And the other similar one is "you were lucky to be in the right place at the right time". No! I worked hard to be in the right place at the right time. I researched the subject, scouted, studied the weather and got up in the middle of the night to get that image. Thanks for your comment and for watching.

Hi Pete. Do you use Lightroom for editing? If so you can set it up to bring in the profiles. It's Edit > Preferences > RAW > Presets > Defaults and choose "Camera Settings". It will automatically apply your colour profiles, white balance, aspect ratio etc. that you used in camera. Lots of other software has a way to set this up too.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide I use Capture One Pro. C1 support for Pentax is fairly minimal. Even then, it's worth the inconvenience of not having the Colour Styles.

Capture One allows you to import the profiles. So if you can download them from Pentax (or another site - somewhere will have them if you google it) You can use the Pentax ones in Capture One.

Hi Mike. That's interesting. I've not tried creating custom profiles in lightroom. For most of my images, I'm fine with the Sony software, but for the ones with the greatest contrast I have created some Photoshop actions that replicate the profiles, and it means I can tweak the various elements easily enough. I tend to use these for shots that I've deliberately underexposed, such as backlit shots. But they're far from perfect and I don't use them often. I didn't include anything on that because too much detail for this video and I haven't got the profiles perfect yet. I think I might experiment with your method to see if it's easier to get the profiles working better. Thanks for sharing that and thanks for watching.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Linear profiles take a bit of getting used to but they're pretty easy to create using a small utility provided by Adobe (there's videos online about how to do it). Once you apply them, your images will immediately look about a stop underexposed, very flat and desaturated. Horrible. But it's now up to you to rebuild all the tone and colour using the usual LR tools to get the exact look you want without having to worry about the tonal contrast that is "under the hood" in all the canned profiles. You've taken all that out by applying a linear profile and you're now working on a completely flat image. It's more post processing work for sure, which I know you're not keen on, but for me the difference in my prints is night and day! Good luck.

Thanks for the info

Hi Dave. Definitely worth experimenting to check it out. Have fun and thanks for watching.

Hi. Thanks. your suggestion about a video on finding the light is definitely on my list to make at some point. I think what you're referring to shooting in a flat profile. It's kind of the opposite of what I do in this video. So you strip away a lot of the saturation and contrast, but you end up with more to do in post processing. It's similar to shooting video in a log profile, if you've ever done that. I hope that answers your question, but feel free to ask if I've not made sense. Thanks for the question and for watching.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Thanks for taking the time to answer. I haven't had the good (?) fortune to process video yet, but I do get the drift of shooting in a Log profile (I think). I was referring to shooting in FLAT profile. I may have more questions, but I'll save them for your future video. Much appreciate the time and effort you take in putting these together. So far, they have challenged me to rethink some of what I do in the field (and that's always a good thing).

Hi Andrew. Great question and potentially quite a long answer, so I'll try to keep it brief. There are a few things here. (1) it gets quicker as you get used to it. Get to learn you gear and take thousands of photos and you'll be changing the settings without thinking much about it. (2) In the beginning people tend to walk around taking photos of whatever wildlife they find, which is great for practice. But eventually you'll get to a stage where you want to have sessions photographing a specific species. It takes time to research your subject and where to find them. But I often spend hours in a day just photographing one thing. It means I can make just minor changes to the composition or the settings throughout that time as I'm not quickly changing from photographing a bird in flight to a mammal hiding in the grass. I made a video on this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wzyvy7y9b0A.html. (3) Better gear does help. The more customisable buttons and dials you have on you camera the better. I've customised all the buttons and dials so that I can change any of the settings I regularly use without even taking my eye away from the eyepiece. (4) Finally, I would say composition is really important. At the start it is really difficult to think about this along with which settings to use. But as soon as the exposure triangle is second nature to you, start thinking about composition. The ratio of distances between you, the subject and the background. Which elements of the scene to include and exclude to make the best image you can. And all sort of other things. Arguably, this takes longer to get to grips with than exposure. But in summary, the more practice, the easier and quicker it all becomes. I hope that helps.

Hi Selianboy. They're not irrelevant to RAW. These profiles are really no different from white balance. You can either set up your software to ignore or to apply the white balance you chose in camera. It's exactly the same with these profiles. By default your software ignores them, but can be set to apply them. I never shoot JPG. And please don't think I'm using these profiles because I need them, I'm using them because I love them - that's the point of this video - they are vastly underrated and massively misunderstood.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Hi, I am not dissing your video... it makes a brilliant point as far as work flow is concerned. Certainly if one doesn't know how to apply these profiles post camera then it is quite brilliant to set them in-camera. I totally agree with you, not many realise this. Also, as you quite rightly say, from the workflow point of view, it can save time in post. I like the work you present - always clear and always innovative. Many thanks.

Thanks for watching.

Hi. Glad you like them. No, it's not always about having a wide aperture, in fact most of these were with mid-range apertures. I tend to shoot at f/8 and f/9 a lot. It's also not a camera effect. It's about choosing the right situation to photograph your subject. I've made a video all about it which you might like to watch. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tG5guMnJjI0.html

Thank you.

Hi. Thanks. If you mean prints, as in how to print on paper, that's quite a big topic to go into in a comment. Printing is an artform by itself. I might make a video on that one day, but there are lots of good videos on printing. In terms of the final image I display in these videos, I create the border by using the 'canvas size' function in Photoshop. I make the canvas size larger than the picture and then fill in the gaps around the picture with an off-white colour. Then I drop my signature on it as a new layer. To save me having to do all those clicks for each picture, I have created a photoshop 'action' to do it in one click. If you're not familiar with actions, they are a bit like macros or shortcuts in other applications. You can create a function to carry out a set series of commands. I hope that makes sense, sorry if these aren't terms you've come across yet. Feel free to ask for any further info though. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you like the videos and photos.

Walks I would like to see a video or more about printing too

Hi Gord, that's covered at 14:26, but the data is attached to your raw file, and embedded in the JPG. So basically if you want to use it in the raw file you either need to select the colour profile in your photo editing software (eg lightroom and camera raw have the colour profiles available to select), or you do your initial edit in your camera manufacturer's software where the colour profile will automatically be applied to the raw file, and then transfer the photo to your third party software and it will keep the colour profile. Thanks for watching.

Hi. Good stuff. If they are anything like the Sony ones, it will definitely be worth your while in experimenting and learning what each one does. Thanks for watching and being a subscriber - much appreciated.

Hi. Glad to hear you enjoy playing with the creative styles too. I love flower photography, but this year it was difficult for wildflowers. In the UK, where I am the wildflowers didn't really bloom in the way they have in previous years. The excessive heat probably didn't help. I hope you got some great shots of your roses.

Thanks for sharing.

Hi Thomas. I was using the Sony A9. Thanks for watching.

Wow, thank you. I'm so happy to hear that and glad you enjoy the videos. I certainly have non-bird wildlife videos. (But birds always do best on RU-vid.) Here's a couple of recent ones. This is about eyes in wildlife photography, where I was photographing rabbits. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RAZtWh9DEcM.html And here's one about grey seals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UqrvfhmPyFA.html Thanks for watching and your lovely comment.

Cheers David. Thanks for the comments - perhaps I should have included them. Thanks for watching.

Tack. Hälsningar från Storbritannien.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Du är välkommen ,ha det gött.

Hi Shane. I think all of these were on the Sony A9. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide thank you for the reply. Yeah i really enjoyed watching your video and i really like how you edit your images. In fact, i watched the video three times today. I hope to watch more upcoming videos from you.

@@shanenebria5822 That's awesome, I really appreciate it. More to come soon.

Hi. Raw files are just unprocessed image data, so nothing affects them directly, but within the raw file it carries with it lots of information about the choices you made in-camera. This includes things like the white balance you used, the aspect ratio and the colour profile. So your software knows, for each of these things and many more, what you did and can apply them quickly. Depending on the software you might be able to set it up to automatically apply the profile. This saves me lots of time in editing and often I am finished in just a few clicks. Of course, as it's a raw file, you can chose to do anything else with it if you don't like what you did in camera. Thanks for the question and for watching.

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Thanks for your reply…good video!

Hi Mike, no, otherwise the bottom of the picture would be a different tone to the water. You certainly can create blur by doing that, but you don't need to on water - just get flat to the ground. Thanks for watching.

The Lightroom and Camera Raw profiles are approximations of the manufacturer ones, but they do a pretty good job in my experience. But I always do the third of the three alternatives that I suggested. I do the initial edit in the manufacturer's editing software and then move into LR or PS as a TIFF file.

Hi. Glad you like the video. On most Nikons you scroll to the name of the profile (standard, neutral, vivid etc) and then press to go right and it opens up another menu. You should see the options to adjust sharpness, clarity, contrast, brightness, saturation and hue. I hope that helps. If not, check the manual. If you don’t have it any more you should be able to download it from the Nikon website.

Thanks for the very prompt reply. I will check it

Those options are available on D3500 - buried in the menu. thank you for the help in locating them!

Hi. I only ever shoot raw and I use them. And you're right, all this can be done in post. But, if you think about it, it's a lot more fuss to do this on edits of lots of photos, than it is to change it once in the field and then it applies to all photos until you change it again. This saves me so much time in my photo editing. Thank for your question and for watching.

Hi Michael. They're not baked into the raw file, but there's a section at 14:26 that covers three ways to use them in post processing.

Thanks for watching.