Franky's macro shots

[Misled]

Wow that is awesome are those clown fish eggs lol

Yep, we'll see what they look like later when the lights come on.

 

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My flame wrasse flashing away lol

 

[Blitzie]

AWESOME Picture Franky

 

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AWESOME Picture Franky

Thanks Andre

 

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These last two pictures are not of corals in my tank but those of a tank I frequent often at my local pet store named puppy center that lets me practice on their tanks. Lol

 

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Some new photos of my tank trying different angles to catch multiple corals in the same frame.

 

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Tangelos

 

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My working Tiger Conch wondering why I'm Staring and him LOL!

 

[FoxDaddy]

Absolutely amazing pics. My wife and I have a Canon T3i and with a Tamaron lens, still trying to work out how to get the pics to not wash out under the Blue Leds. Its pretty frustrating. Everyone keeps saying white balance but noone is a bit more specific. You obviously have it down..your colors are amazing.

 

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Absolutely amazing pics. My wife and I have a Canon T3i and with a Tamaron lens, still trying to work out how to get the pics to not wash out under the Blue Leds. Its pretty frustrating. Everyone keeps saying white balance but noone is a bit more specific. You obviously have it down..your colors are amazing.

Thank you it comes with a lot of practice lol. I usually underexpose my shots or they will get washed out at times. I shoot in manual that way I can control both aperture and shutter to get the desired results. When shooting manually there usually is a bar that reads your exposure usually something like this +_ _0_ _ -

I try and set it more towards the negative as opposed to the center. Hope that makes sense. Also keep ISO low the test is trial and error good luck happy shooting. Is your tamron a macro? Or standard zoom lens?

 

[Reef Bass]

My wife and I have a Canon T3i and with a Tamaron lens, still trying to work out how to get the pics to not wash out under the Blue Leds. Its pretty frustrating. Everyone keeps saying white balance but noone is a bit more specific.

Shoot in RAW mode (as opposed to jpg). When post processing the pic in the software of your choosing (your camera came with Digital Photo Pro, btw), move the color temperature slider / white balance control until the colors in your pic look like what you see in your tank. This will remove the "too blue" look that is caused by the inability of your camera to white balance appropriately under high color temperature lighting. By setting the appropriate color temp yourself, which your camera is not capable of doing in auto white balance mode, colors are correct.

If your lighting is primarily blue LED, you will likely face an additional blue challenge, which is the tendency of auto exposure to overexpose the blue areas in the picture significantly. In that case, as Franky suggests, use your in camera meter to deliberately reduce exposure through negative exposure compensation or any other light lowering technique - lower ISO, smaller aperature, shorter shutterspeed.

Once you've done a few shots from your tank you'll get a sense of how much underexposure is necessary.

 

[frankyrivera]

Shoot in RAW mode (as opposed to jpg). When post processing the pic in the software of your choosing (your camera came with Digital Photo Pro, btw), move the color temperature slider / white balance control until the colors in your pic look like what you see in your tank. This will remove the "too blue" look that is caused by the inability of your camera to white balance appropriately under high color temperature lighting. By setting the appropriate color temp yourself, which your camera is not capable of doing in auto white balance mode, colors are correct.

If your lighting is primarily blue LED, you will likely face an additional blue challenge, which is the tendency of auto exposure to overexpose the blue areas in the picture significantly. In that case, as Franky suggests, use your in camera meter to deliberately reduce exposure through negative exposure compensation or any other light lowering technique - lower ISO, smaller aperature, shorter shutterspeed.

Once you've done a few shots from your tank you'll get a sense of how much underexposure is necessary.

Yup what he said. Unfortunately I don't have any post processing software so I shoot in jpegs. Ill be getting Lightroom 4 this week so after I learn that I can play around with raw images. Another learning curve lol

 

[Reef Bass]

I remember my transition to RAW seemed daunting at first, but once I saw how easy and accurate white balancing is, I was hooked. With the RAW files containing image sensor data versus final picture data, one can change exposure AFTER shooting! You don't need to sweat whether you should bracket your exposures plus and minus a half stop every shot because you can make that adjustment easily during post.

Then I started shooting everything RAW, not just high color temperature lighting situations, and for me it's the way to go. I want the control of being able to determine how the image looks as I have experienced how auto modes can fail to provide visual goodness in specific situations. With RAW one can edit and redit without the loss of quality caused by loading, saving and then reloading and resaving a jpg image. Remember jpg compression is not lossless, so some detail gets thrown away every save, the amount of which depends on the compression setting.

 

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My first top down shot