Do you ever use picture style(Standart, Portrait, Landscape, editing to your own preference of saturation etc)?

As the first answer said, most professional cameras don't have picture styles. They do have settings for things like sharpening or saturation. Nikons have picture modes that are part of the Nikon proprietary raw processing software (Capture NX) and those modes can be transferred to the camera; I believe Canon has the same thing in its proprietary software.

BTW, you should not fool yourself into thinking your pictures are unedited. Of couse they are edited: you have chosen settings on the camera and let the camera apply those settings. You could choose no settings and apply the same thing the camera could have done in PS instead. The end result would be the same. Both kinds of pictures are edited, or rather, processed. Editing really means cutting out the good ones from the bad ones. Processing is the settings and effects the camera, or you, apply.

I prefer to choose my own processing, so I apply no settings in camera and shoot in raw. Other people like the way the camera's electronic processor does it with the built-in software so they choose the settings they like and shoot in JPEG. We can each duplicate the other's work to a large extent, only mine is done post-shoot and theirs is done during the shoot.

Tim - I think the OP means more like the options for "Night Picture," "Fireworks," "Soft," etc., that P&S models have. Nikons do have, for instance, saturation settings: neutral, standard, and vivid; and other settings, as well as their picture modes (D1X, etc.) but I don't think that's what the OP was talking about. I could be wrong.

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Why would a professional photographer want to apply preset edits to their pictures?

Technically, I usually keep my camera set to take both a raw and a jpg copy of the picture, and my jpg copy does have a vivid color style on it. However, any pictures I actually use beyond sending a snap shot over facebook or txt, will be adjusted by hand, from the raw copy of the picture.

Editing manually is better because it gives you control over the edits that are applied.

A pro photographer does not need edits to make their pictures not suck. Unless you are turning your picture into a graphic design of some sort (which I often do in a very abstract form), your pics should need minimal editing.

Yes, to get an idea for how the image will look in post, but when you shoot in RAW, all of the "picture style" information is ignored by raw converters like Lightroom.

For example, I tend to use a monochrome setting a lot in order to get a feel for how the image will look once it is processed. However, as soon as I import the image into Lightroom it reverts back to a color image because Lightroom ignores the picture style settings on the camera.

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Professional cameras don't have picture styles? Really? Because all the Canon 1D, 1Ds, 5D, and 7D models all have picture style selections. The top Nikon models do too.

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The picture controls are preset settings applied to jpg images in camera. I do not want the camera post processing anything I shoot!!

I therefore shoot in raw and post process on a computer, so that I have the maximum image data to play with and can see the results on a decent sized, calibrated screen rather than the tiny LCD on the back of the camera.

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Lol. That's funny. I prefer to let others handle the picture taking. I'm a horrible shot. I love the question though.

"Why do pros not use picture style? "....the biggest reason is that professional grade cameras do not have those "built in modes". That is more of a P&S camera "feature", AND most professional photographers prefer to handle the editing to their wants/desires and not letting a camera make a "guesstimate" on what the photographer wants.

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