Canon R5 Settings for Fashion Photography | Inside Fashion and Beauty Photography

Our cameras have a lot of options to customize and control their settings. In this video, I cover the most important settings on my Canon R5 mirrorless camera when photographing for fashion/portrait photography. Let's take a look!

Image Quality: RAW

White Balance: I select the appropriate preset (flash in-studio) but use a Calibrite Colorchecker Passport to give me a neutral reference point. I never shoot on auto white balance because it is too inconsistent.

Color Space: RGB

Picture Style: By default I select standard, but I also select "monochromatic" when on location and I'm intending the end result to be in black and white. This is just a preview, so it will not actually change my raw file.

Exposure/Shooting mode: I shoot in manual whether in the studio or on location. On location, I use my electronic viewfinder with exposure simulation (see below ) to help me achieve accurate exposures. In the studio, I shoot tethered and check the histogram for accurate exposures (and periodically use a light meter).

Exposure simulation: When on location or outdoors I leave exposure simulation ON (enable) to give me exposure previews. When shooting in the studio I always turn exposure simulation OFF (disable) because my camera settings eliminate ambient light (and it would make it difficult to see).

Auto Focus (general settings): I allow the camera to help me do a lot of the focus 'heavy lifting'. For that reason I use Face and Eye Tracking with Eye Detection enabled. With these settings, the camera finds the eye closest to the camera and keeps focus on that eye. I typically set up Touch and Drag AF with the active area in the bottom right. This is helpful if the face is obscured or with multiple people in the frame.

Auto Focus Operation: I use One-Shot a majority of the time for its precision, but switch to Servo if the subject is moving a lot, twirling, or walking toward the camera.

Exposure Settings: My go-to camera settings are "1/200 F11 ISO 200" when shooting in the studio. I adapt (as necessary) to location lighting situations, and am comfortable shooting with a wide range of ISO, though I try to keep my shutter at 1/200 or faster. If I must go slower, I am always sure to enable Image Stabilization (on the lens).

PS: Check out these other gear videos I recommend to help you explore some of these concepts even more in-depth.

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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!

[josephchan]

Hope to see another video next month on portraiture or other photography. Thanks for giving back to the community.

[josephchan]

One of the best instructors I learned photography in person and online. Thank you for this class. Many thanks for your expertise.

[toddbristol]

Great video! Seems like everyone else already commented on how great they thought this was, and I agree!!

[jrmandrial]

I literally just picked up my R5 an hour ago. Waiting for the battery to charge. Thank you for a great video.

[arnoldobizzy]

This the kind of video i have been loking for, Thank you LIndsay for this awesome content, am hoping you will do another video for importing EOS R5 images and maybe your export settings. Thank you.

[BigAntTVMedia]

Finally
Adorama please do more r5 videos for fashion, runway and sports

[kevadelic]

Big thanks for your instructions, Adorama. I'm just starting in fashion photography with an R5C and this really helps.

[heqaib]

Fantastic suggestions with explanations. Thanks!

[wesleyhicks]

Your explanation on exposure simulation solved my problem. Excellent video !Thanks !

[eddieteabagify]

Settings apply to the EOS M6 mii as well. Thx Lindsay. Will start setting white balance myself instead of Auto especially outside with changing light.

[monztermovies]

I just switched my R6 to AdobeRGB. Great video! 🤙

[richardpilcher]

Great summary. One comment however. I note that you have Continuous Auto-focus enabled. This is not necessary as it means that the camera is focussing even when the shutter is not half depressed wasting battery power.

[meljenkins]

My settings for indoor portrait:

1. RAW
2. White Balance = Expo Disc (Custom White Balance)
3. Color Checker Passport
4. Picture Style = Neutral
5. Color Space = sRGB
6. Light Meter = Sekonic L-478D Litemaster Pro
7. Camera = Canon 5D Mk IV
8. ISO = 400
9. Shutter Speed = 1/125 ( Always)
10. Aperature = Depends

Will use these settings when I rent the Canon R5 and compare.

[ceasarmercado]

Nice information.. Just bought a canon R5 .. Thank you for this

[balamina]

Very useful information! Thank you so much!

[hom]

Great review of the settings used, Lindsay!

[Lucy-dkcz]

FYI choosing adobeRGB does nothing if you are shooting raw, the same data is retained in the raw regardless

[carlosread]

I have the R6 and, as with the R5, this camera doesn't offer the option to select the whole right hand side of the screen to manually drag the shutter. I would like to see that fuction added in a future frimware update, because the R6 and R5 do offer the whole bottom or the whole top portion of the screen to be selected. Thanks for sharing this video!

[mhs]

Those picture styles and camera settings do affect the image if you are shooting with Jpeg. What we actually see on the camera LCD is a jpeg preview. If I shoot RAW I usually change all these settings to zero or "neutral" to get them closer to what they look like in RAW.

[paulpayne]

Thanks Lindsay. Where did you get the maniquin head?