Picture taking question

[marinelife]

I changed to LED lights and they have more blue in them. For the life of me I can not find the right adjustment to make the pictures look good. I had no issue with the other MH bulbs.

What do you recommend for the setting to be when you have alot of blue light in the picture?

It is a Nikon d40x with standard lens.

 

[BlueCorn]

Shoot in RAW mode and adjust the white balance during image processing.

 

[marinelife]

Thanks, So should I use manual mode, shutter-priority, aperture-priority?

 

[BlueCorn]

Those choices control exposure, not white balance. I'm a strong advocate of using manual exposure but you can make good images with all three.

 

[lbaldrey]

All that beerguy said

 

[marinelife]

Thanks, Raw mode gives me a .nef file that I can not edit, Gimp 2 and the older photoshop I have neither read this type of file.
I will look around for something that would work.

 

[BlueCorn]

The software that came with your camera should work. Also you can download Adobe's DNG convertor tool. You should be able to edit DNG.

 

[marinelife]

Thanks,
I am downloading the converter. I do not think the camera had any software with it or maybe I just misplaced it.

 

[marinelife]

ok found the software that came with the camera, now we are in business.