Canon EOS users, need some photography help please

[Wy Renegade]

Ok, seems like I get this figured out, then I stop taking pictures for awhile and I forget it all.

White Balance - how do you do a custom white balance again? Switch my lights from MH to t5s and boy are my pictures blue.

Depth of field - how do I adjust depth of field? If I shot with the macro lens or the normal lens on the macro setting, I get very little depth of field. Nice and clear in the center, but can see sh** beyond that.

[HappyCoral]

Use the rolley thing by the screen to adjust the depth of field (f stop). As for the white balance I forgot because I always adjust it in photoshop cause it never seems right. Shoot in raw mode and adjust white balance in Photoshop if you can.

[Poseidon]

Check this thread out...

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/phot...field-dof.html

White balance is best adjusted in Lightroom or Photoshop from a RAW image.

[Wy Renegade]

Ok, maybe its time to step up my game.

First, how do you shot a raw image?

And second, how do you adjust it in photoshop (I have photoshop elements 7, if that makes any difference - and I also get an error message of some kind every time I go to edit my pictures about something not working, which I ignore)?

[XSiVE]

RAW should just be an available setting with the other image quality selections. Do you have the raw codec installed on your computer?

[Poseidon]

What is the error message?

[HappyCoral]

On your canon there is a selection in the menu that will say what format to shoot and quality. Also your Canon should have the Codec on the disc or I think it is in Photoshop Elements. Not totally positive on that. Kind of a setup and forget it thing.

[Wy Renegade]

Originally Posted by XSiVE

RAW should just be an available setting with the other image quality selections. Do you have the raw codec installed on your computer?

No idea, so I assume not. How would I find it?

Originally Posted by Poseidon

What is the error message?

Monitor profile "Lenova ThinkPad LCD Monitor" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software.

I usually click "ignore profile"

Originally Posted by HappyCoral

On your canon there is a selection in the menu that will say what format to shoot and quality. Also your Canon should have the Codec on the disc or I think it is in Photoshop Elements. Not totally positive on that. Kind of a setup and forget it thing.

Alright, I'll look for the raw setting here in a bit. How would I look for the raw Codex in Photoshop Elements?

[XSiVE]

You have to manually install the raw codec, you can download it from the canon site.

[basil]

Go into your menu, and if you are using a dslr, you should see image size, one of the options should be raw/jpeg this makes it easy as it give you options to view the image as a jpeg as it is saved in both formats