Cool Piece

[TheHoove]

I got this as a live rock from my LFS I used to go to, with just the tip covered. Not the prettiest Zoas, But Love the way it looks fully covering old coral skeleton!

Not the most accurate colour representation. Amazing, $2500 worth of camera gear and 5 years of photography with as my primary hobby, Getting accurate shots of my tank has been a huge challenge!

 

[organism]

Very nice, it's like a coral stick

 

[TheHoove]

It is. I like it. A little different than just a mat of zoas. And maybe a cool idea for those that dont keep hard coral to get a hard coral look in their tanks!

 

[CCarlson]

Really neat!

 

[Reef Bass]

Interesting piece for sure.

I see you're shooting a 30D. Your camera is quite capable of rocking the shot. I use a 50D.

If you're having problems getting your tank pic colors right, I suggest shooting in RAW mode and setting the color temperature while post processing. Spot on color. If you're having other issues, post a pic which you're not happy with in the photography forum and let us help you out.

 

[RokleM]

:thumbsup:

 

[TheHoove]

Interesting piece for sure.

I see you're shooting a 30D. Your camera is quite capable of rocking the shot. I use a 50D.

If you're having problems getting your tank pic colors right, I suggest shooting in RAW mode and setting the color temperature while post processing. Spot on color. If you're having other issues, post a pic which you're not happy with in the photography forum and let us help you out.

I aways shoot raw, post processing with canon DPP. The real problem is canon DPP will only go to 10k For manual white balance. A Click white balance will go much higher. But there is not much in my tank that would be neutral gray under my lights. I can get them "natural" as they would look under sunlight no problem. But duplicating what I see in my tank has been my biggest challenge as a photographer yet!

 

[pascal32]

take a grey card from a photo shop, laminate and hold it in the tank. You do have to be selective in picking the grey spot as there will be some glare, though it has served me well as a starting point for balancing color.

 

[XJLONGO]

I like the coral on a stick look, Hopefully mine will spread like this one day

 

[TheHoove]

take a grey card from a photo shop, laminate and hold it in the tank. You do have to be selective in picking the grey spot as there will be some glare, though it has served me well as a starting point for balancing color.

Good idea, except im not after neutral white balance. If I stick a gray card in my tank, it wont look gray under my lights. It would give me a nice natural color, but not what I see in my tank. If eyedrop off a gray rock in my tank, It gives a nice neutral, natural daylight look. But not a pretty blue with florescent colors.

 

[pascal32]

Its a good starting point. If I get a chance later I'll pull up some balanced pictures under reefbrite LED shooting RAW on my nikon, pretty impressive considering how little I know about photography!

 

[TheHoove]

This Is what you get using the gray card idea, except I just manually selected something in the pic that would be about neutral gray. And this is probably pretty close to natural colors. But the purple in the centers about disappears, the green looses its pop.

I just need to get something other than canons software or corel paint shop. Neither has the white balance capability I need for pics like this.

 

[pascal32]

Are you shooting raw and processing the raw picture? When I balance I usually manually adjust (with wife's help) and add a dash of saturation to get the colors right. I never had an issue with being color blind until I got a reef tank and a dslr, now I would pay a fortune to see what other people do

 

[TheHoove]

Are you shooting raw and processing the raw picture? When I balance I usually manually adjust (with wife's help) and add a dash of saturation to get the colors right. I never had an issue with being color blind until I got a reef tank and a dslr, now I would pay a fortune to see what other people do

Ya. I always do. ITs easy with normal lighting conditions. I really need to at least get photoshop elements. Canons DPP does a good job of processing their raw files and good exposure, color, curves control. But white balance only goes to 10k. Not high enough to correct the colors in from my tank manually. Really, Its kinda fun after years of photography to have a real challenge!

 

[pascal32]

I had a similar issue using adobe products. The nikon sw seems to handle it well. Please be sure to share anything you figure out!