Canon EOS 40D: Monochrome Adjustment

Video Transcript

"Okay, let's talk about monochrome adjustment in the picture style settings. We've already talked about adjusting a basic or general picture style but now we're going to talk about something a little bit further, deeper in here. So go ahead and press your picture style button at the bottom of the back side of the camera. What we're going to do is select monochrome, down here on the bottom. This is one of the picture styles. Oops. Go ahead and select monochrome by pressing info. Then let's scroll down to the filter effects. If I select this I have the option of using either no filter, a yellow filter, an orange filter, a red filter, or a green filter. This basically, selecting one of these has the same effect as actually putting a filter that you would normally screw on to the front of your lens. The camera will automatically make that adjustment. If you use a yellow filter, the blue sky will look more natural and the white clouds will look a little bit crisper. If you use an orange filter the blue sky will look a little bit darker and the sunset will look a little bit more brilliant. If you use a red filter the blue sky will usually look a little bit darker and leaves will look a little bit crisper and brighter. Then if you use the green filter effect, skin tone and lips will look really good because they're red and green is the opposite of red, so it makes those stick out a little darker and a little bit more contrast, and then tree leaves and stuff like that will look brighter because it's the same color as green. So if you wanted to you could go ahead and select, let's say red because we're shooting some black and white portraits of people with, say they had some lipstick on. Let's actually select green and that will make their lips and skin look really contrasty, let's go ahead and select that for the filter effect. Go down, go ahead and hit menu here, back to the picture styles. So you've selected monochrome and we've gone in there and picked up a filter and that should apply the filter to our settings. Now when we shoot, we'll end up with a very nice monochromatic contrasty portrait style."