Camera neutral or camera standard?

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I shoot photos in raw and edit them in lightroom + photoshop.

Lightroom automatically sets the photos to Adobe Standard. I usually change it to camera standard or neutral.

What do u set ur photos to in lightroom and why?

Sometimes I find the photos look better with the adobe standard setting, but camera standard makes them "pop" a bit more.

I find I struggle with post processing to make my photos look the best so just trying to find out how others edit their photos.
 
I've never changed it from Adobe Standard. The difference is subtle, and in most cases you'll be making adjustments to gamma and contrast that take it away from either starting points any way.
 
I have a Nikon D90 and I use the D2x settings profile on LR.
 
I rarely change from Adobe Standard.

As David has said - other settings that may have been done. or are yet to be done. negate the need for this bit of fiddling/faffing - IMHO.
 
sep9001 said:
I have a Nikon D90 and I use the D2x settings profile on LR.
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For any particular reason? Using "camera standard" will use whatever the standard response is for whatever camera is used... it's read from the metadata. There are no specific Nikon cameras listed are there? Not in mine anyway.
 
It will depend on your camera and the profiles that you get. On my canon I rarely use Camera Neutral as I find it very muted and lacks vibrancy. If not Adobe Standard I tend to either use Camera Standard or Camera Landscape depending on the picture and the colours within it.
 
The profiles in LR are Adobe's reverse engineered "best guesses" rather than the actual manufacturer camera profiles.
 
I dont know why, but I find after post processing when I set it to neutral at the start the photos come out with more detail and the skin looks a lot nicer. If put on camera standard the colours are too strong and overcolor the small details if anyone knows what I mean lol
 
It will depend on the camera and also on your personal taste. I don't use them as calibrated sets, it's just different presets that you can use. Of course it also depends on whether you have the monitor calibrated etc.
 
If your monitor is not calibrated, choosing a preset that looks better on your screen will be of no help whatsoever, as it could still well look wrong on other's screens.

You shouldn't be making any judgements on colour with an uncalibrated screen IMO.
 
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