My first attempt at eye candy

[jrpdriver]

My wife bought a cannon rebel awhile back to take pictures of the kids, I bought a macro lens and messed around a bit but never really put a lot of effort into it. I finally watched some tutorials on how to adjust white balance for shooting in really blue light and these were some of my first attempt at actinic macros. Some came out pretty good but a lot of my shots came out really "grainy" looking. Anyone know why and/or how to fix that or is it just the quality of my camera and lens? Anyway, here's a few that came out decent

Aqua SD Rainbow


Strawberry Shortcake


CJ Pinky


Tierra Del Fuego


Sniper Bubble Gum

 

[jrpdriver]

Unknown Indo


and last but not least, the WD! I never saw this color until I put it under the Hydra fixtures, Greg C told me its because of the deep blue LED's

 

[hersheyb]

beautiful colors...

 

[dodgerblew]

I'm drooling

 

[keepLearning]

wow, very nice.

 

[jrpdriver]

thanks guys....you can see in a few of the pics though, there is a grain, its like little pixels of color, it looked clear on the camera but when I downloaded it and looked at the larger pic it was there, anyone know what that is from?

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Those colors...wow

 

[Kalen]

Beautiful colors simply amazing

 

[Fishme1]

Those are great !

 

[SchnitzelReef]

thanks guys....you can see in a few of the pics though, there is a grain, its like little pixels of color, it looked clear on the camera but when I downloaded it and looked at the larger pic it was there, anyone know what that is from?

Are you shooting in RAW format? (I am not a camera expert, and I haven't even figured out how to use my camera yet. But I know that's one of the first things I read, always shoot in RAW)

 

[LessThanJaker1]

the grain is called "Noise". The lower you set your ISO the less noise you will have, BUT you will need more light or a longer exposure to achieve a nice shot when lowering the ISO.Typically you would use a high ISO in low light situations where a faster shutter speed is needed. Also try to keep an aperture in the range of maybe like 3.5-7 or so. What shutter speed do you have it set to? I'm no expert but hope this helps

 

[jrpdriver]

Are you shooting in RAW format? (I am not a camera expert, and I haven't even figured out how to use my camera yet. But I know that's one of the first things I read, always shoot in RAW)

Honestly, I'm not sure, I didn't even look at that, I'll check this evening

 

[isseym328]

Awsome colors and amazing looking acros!

 

[jrpdriver]

the grain is called "Noise". The lower you set your ISO the less noise you will have, BUT you will need more light or a longer exposure to achieve a nice shot when lowering the ISO.Typically you would use a high ISO in low light situations where a faster shutter speed is needed. Also try to keep an aperture in the range of maybe like 3.5-7 or so. What shutter speed do you have it set to? I'm no expert but hope this helps

That helped a ton, thank you!...and I don't know what my shutter speed is at, I'll check that this evening also

 

[BeanMachine]

Nice Jason. Can we see a photo of the WD with all the channels on?

Has it colored up since it was in your large display when we saw it some months ago? Or merely the lighting change under the deep blues makes it pop like that?

I'm hoping you so cal guys can grow them out and drop the price!

 

[jrpdriver]

Nice Jason. Can we see a photo of the WD with all the channels on?

Has it colored up since it was in your large display when we saw it some months ago? Or merely the lighting change under the deep blues makes it pop like that?

I'm hoping you so cal guys can grow them out and drop the price!

Yeah I can take a pic later, it has colored up a lot but it doesn't look anywhere near as nice with all the channels on, you can still see the pinks and greens with all the channels on but it glows with blue only

 

[skp]

That helped a ton, thank you!...and I don't know what my shutter speed is at, I'll check that this evening also

Also, some cameras have sensors that are better and less grainy in low light. Those are the ones that have high iso ranges and are usually full frame such as the canon 6d and Nikon df.

Very nice pics and acros by the way.

 

[fearyaks]

Tips -
If you drop the ISO down (will remove grain) you will need to have a much longer shutter speed. Unless you have rock steady hands you'll get some blur so this is where monopods/tripods come into play.

If you want to shoot in RAW (it's been awhile since I've used a Canon) you have to go into your settings and change the quality to RAW. RAW will let you manipulate the image and colors much better after the fact. RAW files take up a lot more space.

 

[wishntoboutside]

Looks great jayson

 

[thetedinator]

Unknown Indo


and last but not least, the WD! I never saw this color until I put it under the Hydra fixtures, Greg C told me its because of the deep blue LED's

RC should make an 'Awesome Corals' button available to use in thread responses. Good job.