To adjust the camera manually in photography, you need a DSLR camera (beginner or advanced) such as the Nikon D3400 or Canon 800D or any other camera that has these options. The names of these settings may be slightly different on different cameras, but they work the same:

  • Image quality: Select RAW mode
  • How to compress the raw file: If possible, put it on the uncompressed state
  • White balance: Auto mode
  • Camera color and light preset settings (Picture Control / Picture Style / Creative Style / Film Simulation): Standard option
  • Color Space: sRGB
  • Long Exposure Noise Reduction: On
  • Noise Reduction Option for High Sensitivity or High ISO Noise Reduction: Off
  • Color and light editing options such as Active D-Lighting / DRO, HDR, Lens Corrections: off is better

These settings are the most important camera settings for general applications in photography work. First of all, you have to choose the shooting format which is RAW or raw file option. Even if you can not work with the raw format, still enable it to have the raw file alongside JPEG anyway

Different features in the Photography Camera

Features like Picture Controls on Nikon cameras or Picture Styles on Canon cameras have no effect on the raw file in photography art, but they can change the way the image is displayed on the screen and therefore may deceive your eye. These settings change the color, brightness, sharpness and JPEG image of the camera, but have no effect on the raw file. Also, the color space and White Balance of the camera have no effect on the raw file and you can change them later,

That’s why we put them in the simplest mode, sRGB and automatic, respectively.

Long exposure noise reduction

For long exposure noise reduction settings, it is best to set it to on. Since this option also affects the raw file, it is best to turn it on to reduce noise generated during long exposures. Of course, when you take short exposures (shutter speeds of less than a few seconds), selecting this option does not matter much, but in long exposures, the storage time of the image file increases. Other editing settings such as dynamic range enhancement, image optimization, and normal camera noise reduction settings only work on the JPEG file and you do not need to enable them.

These are the settings that are generally best chosen for different types of photography such as fashion photography and etc.. This means that in most camera applications, you must enable them. Other settings depend on the shape of your shot.