An inside job

1 Use the Picture Controls

hether they are called Picture Controls, Picture Styles, Film Simulation modes or some other combination of those words, these are the settings that give you control over the colour, sharpness, contrast, toning and filter effect that’s applied to your JPEG images. They are the go-to controls for switching from capturing colour images to creating black & white images in-camera. At the very least there will be a Monochrome setting, but there are also often variations on that theme to enable you to produce more interesting results. With Canon and Nikon cameras, the manufacturers offer free-to-download software that enables you to create