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The mountain

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[Magnum_Willys]

Nice! Bit much chroma perhaps....?

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What's Chroma?

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Nice! Bit much chroma perhaps....?

I only resized the photos.  didn't get them edited yet on the photoshop.  I am still new to the camera.  I like the manual mode were I can adjust to get the bright colored look. I may be forgetting to make a few adjustments that would help a lot.  Any tips or pointers would help.  They are all from the 70D with a Canon 18-55mm is lens.  Ill get some videos up on the you tube and post the link here.

[Magnum_Willys]

What's Chroma?

Colors too saturated and bright. 

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If it were on manual what adjustment affects that?  I turn the two wheels intill the color looks good through the lcd.  I will consider that.  Thanks for the pointer.  I'll keep updating throughout the year with new pics.

[huntnphool]

What's Chroma?

Colors too saturated and bright.

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If it were on manual what adjustment affects that?  I turn the two wheels intill the color looks good through the lcd.  I will consider that.  Thanks for the pointer.  I'll keep updating throughout the year with new pics.

 Other than aperture, ISO and shutter speed, I'd leave the "menu" settings at factory default. Do any obvious processing that needs to be done, post.

 You are also shooting in the worst light of the day, it's going to be difficult.

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^ That's a beautiful location, so try coming back at sunset. I was recently at the Petrified Forest and and had to wait from 1pm to 5pm for the light to get right. What do hunting and photography have in common? Gotta get the shot.

If you need/have to shoot at midday, consider black and white (high contrast) or use an infrared filter with the camera on a tripod (slow exposure--IR loses 9-10 stops). Personally, I get bored of looking at greens and blues when there's no warm tones present (reds, orange, yellow) so I think an IR filter would be fun to make the blues dark and the trees snowy white.

There's also some haze present that is robbing the mountain of contrast and saturation. You CANNOT make up for that in post. Put on a nice circular polarizer for that shot next time 

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If it were on manual what adjustment affects that?  I turn the two wheels intill the color looks good through the lcd.  I will consider that.  Thanks for the pointer.  I'll keep updating throughout the year with new pics.

Are you shooting in RAW? Not sure what you mean about looking at the color through the LCD. I will 'chimp' the histogram to make sure its exposed to the right, but still use the OVF for composition. Here's a great explanation of ETTR by Jedi Master Roberto Rodriguez, Jr:
http://robertrodriguezjr.com/2012/05/25/expose-to-the-right-revisited/