Dunk, does your camera have the ability to white balance by taking a picture of a white surface under the lights?
If you have this ability, I usually stick some white plastic into the water under the lighting and use that picture as my white balance reference. That should give you a more accurate representation of your tank color.
If not, you can try using photoshop to white balance.
Yes it does I did take a picture of a white bucket lid and set it to that. Then I can manually adjust from there. I think I’ll try a picture of the sand. The mistake I made though I think I took the picture in a different mode of wb not auto mode. So I’ll do a full auto shot of the sand with just the blue lights on. Does that sound right? The cameras a canon t2i btw.
You need to set the WB under the exact lighting you are shooting pics under. So with that being said, Just like jtnova13 said…
" If you have this ability, I usually stick some white plastic into the water under the lighting and use that picture as my white balance reference. That should give you a more accurate representation of your tank color."
And when I take the picture the white balance on the camera should be set to auto?
You can do it that way. I use the manual setting when taking a pic and set the white balance , using something white in the tank , on my camera to PRE, which I think means preset, and then adjust the exposure meter to where the pics look good to me. Try different settings on the meter and take some pics, then adjust and take another.
Corals in different locations of your tank will be under more or less light, this way you can compensate and get the right pic.
Hope this helps.
Yes it does the two problem colors are red and purple/ blue I can get the red by adjusting but purples tough. Some shoot raw then edit a lot on rc do that and you can tell they’re real saturated. I just want to get true colors. Just need to experiment with it I guess.
With this method I never had the need to edit ,enhance, or alter my pics at all. Keep at it, and you will get to where you want to be.
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With this method I never had the need to edit ,enhance, or alter my pics at all. Keep at it, and you will get to where you want to be.[/quote]
Unless you want to go all out, and use RAW img and photoshop, Then Johns method is it. Thats usually what i do.
Certain little tweaks can help this process a bit…
We should set a camera day to play, meet at kens, tims or dpa… man o man…
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but Tim, your pics look awesome :
: (the coral… not the one of you and jon partying!) :~S
LOL!!
How about doing a member meeting about using a camera to take pics of your tank and/or corals. We could use different cameras and take some pics of frags up for raffle and D/L them onto a laptop right there and project them on the wall instantly to see the difference.
ha ha john you wait i’ll post your pic up here ha ha
I have a nikon and I shoot in P (program) so I can set everything I want manually.
My camera does not let me use a custom image to white balance in Auto mode.
Shoot in program? Does that mean you set the wb to manual and take a shot? I practiced and I set so many different variables. I can’t capture the right color on this one coral its tan/green fades up to purple then a deep purple or blue with green tips and it always looks bad. In the viewfinder it looks great but once I take the pic the preview looks nothing like it if anyone good at pics has a good camera can stop down. Theresa a free frag in it for ya
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With this method I never had the need to edit ,enhance, or alter my pics at all. Keep at it, and you will get to where you want to be.[/quote]
Unless you want to go all out, and use RAW img and photoshop, Then Johns method is it. Thats usually what i do.
Certain little tweaks can help this process a bit…
We should set a camera day to play, meet at kens, tims or dpa… man o man…
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but Tim, your pics look awesome :: (the coral… not the one of you and jon partying!) :~S
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Wow John that looks like a fat version of Tim!
I stopped by tims while in dover yesterday. We messed around with w/b on the camera some…
Here’s a couple of pics we took while i was there…
btw…the tanks new setup with the coast to coast looks and works sweet! ::
Tim cut the visit short, or i would’ve got some more pics… he said he wanted to take his bike out for a blast before dinner…
I saw the garage door opening as i was leaving… out popped tim on his bad - ass chopper…
i had to get a pic ::
ha ha nice one ::
Nice bike Tim. Can’t believe Carmen let you ride her bike. Oh, nice pics too by the way.
Thanks A lol. She didint have a choice I’m a bad #%*