From the course: Learning to Shoot with the Sony Alpha a7 Series

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Using Picture Effect

Using Picture Effect

From the course: Learning to Shoot with the Sony Alpha a7 Series

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Using Picture Effect

- You'll find 13 different special effects that are inside of the camera located under picture effects. And these can be used for recording images or video. Now, this works best when the camera is in JPEG mode so just check your camera setting, and I recommend shooting with extra fine. I'll press the menu button and go to the quality mode here and just make sure that quality is set to extra fine and then adjust the image size and aspect ratio to your needs. You can now tab over and you're just looking for picture effects. There they are. And, it'll be on a different page depending upon the camera model that you have, but you can access these now and you'll find many different effects. Using the up and down arrow, step through the different looks and with some of these you can also push to the right or left to access additional controls. In this case, you see that certain colors, such as the yellow or the blue, are left behind while the rest of the image is made black and white…

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