Lesson 7 Strobe and Continuous Light Plus Color Temperature

Live View with EOS Utility and Lightroom CC

Using Canon EOS utility has a great advantage in Still Life in that you can see in real time how your light is looking on the object.  It is especially useful for placing reflectors and gobos.  I have made a list of setting in order to use the Canon 5DMIII with Live View in the EOS utility with Lightroom CC.

There are some important settings on the Canon that must be made:

1.       Go to the Menu with a Camera and 4 dots. 

2.       Go to Exposure simulation and set to Disable

3.       Go to Silent LV shooting and set to  Disable.  (Must have this set so that the flash will fire when we make a picture with Live View on).

4.       Go to Custom Controls and assist the focus start button to *                      

Tether the camera and have it turned on.

Now open the Canon EOS utility.  

1.       Click on Camera settings/Remote shooting.  You should see the remote shooting screen with all you camera settings.  The settings can be changed on this screen.

2.       Next go to the Preferences Screen

a.       Basic Settings only check the Show main window button.

b.      Destination Folder change the folder to Watched Folder on the desktop and keep everything else unchecked.

c.       File Name  Do not modify

d.      Download Images  set to Images not yet downloaded

e.      Remote Shooting check box for Save also on the camera’s memory card

f.        Linked software None

g.       OK

Now open Lightroom and make the following changes:

1.       File®Auto Import®Auto Import Setting

2.       Set the Watched folder on the desktop

3.       Set the destination folder to somewhere not on the desktop.

4.       File Naming set to Filename.

5.       Make sure the Enable Auto Import is checked

6.       OK

Go back to the remote shooting screen and press the Set-up menu then press the Live View/Movie func.set. button.

1.       Under LV func. Setting check Stills only

2.       Under Screen settings click Still display

3.       OK

Now click Live View shoot button

1.       Set the white balance to Auto (give a better preview image and does a decent job with the capture)

2.       Play with the focus setting and see what works.

3.       Take a picture with the remote button and make sure the flash is firing.