How to take pics with this natural color style

[photolo]

I know there's a difference between the d40x and a d3 but ive used vivid for years on it and got amazing results everytime. People usually thought my photos were edited too compared to their dull versions. But I agree with what was said above, change your white balance and set your color options a few stops up. And properly expose.

I will try this on my canon....do you have any samples?