Most DSLRs and mirrorless cameras have a built-in monochrome capture mode with some offering what they call “scene modes.” Canon calls these effects Picture Styles including one—Nostalgia— that enhances gray tones while making the rest of the colors less vibrant producing a hand-colored look.

Canon’s Picture Styles are adjustable parameters that determine how your camera will process and render images and can be applied to JPEG (still) and MOV (video) files during exposure.

Working in the studio with LED lighting systems may bring you face-to-face with some terms such as lux, lumens and foot-candles. But don’t worry, there was a time when megapixels were unfamiliar to you as well.

Over many years of shooting infrared images, whether it was using film or digital technology, I’ve gotten the best, or at least the most interesting, to me, results when shooting with wide-angle lenses.

My Sunday Series of posts about available light portraiture is on hold today and we go into the studio to celebrate National Bikini Day featuring the one, the only Erin Valakari.