Every genre has different optimal gear setups, which is why it is important to sit down with your camera and take the time to adjust its settings to fit your subject matter and workflow. This helpful video tutorial features an experienced landscape photographer discussing seven camera settings you should turn off to make your workflow more efficient and to improve that quality of your images.
Coming to you from Mark Denney, this great video tutorial discusses seven camera settings professional landscape photographers usually disable. One thing to remember about camera picture styles is that they only apply to the JPEG image. If you are shooting in raw, which you absolutely should be doing for landscape work, they will show in the image preview, but the raw file you work on in post will not be affected. This can make them useful for seeing an approximation of a finished image in the field, but just be sure you are not shooting JPEGs. I'll even use a monochrome profile a lot of the time simply because it makes it easier to see the light without distraction. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Denney.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi."
You mentioned that you put your picture control in "standard" for the best color space.
How does this compare to some of the other settings like neutral, vivid, landscape, etc? I have my camera set just like yours. :D
Do you put any of the picture control settings in A mode or do you just leave them in the center?
Picture control only applies to .jpg.