Settings on a T1i for corals?

[poidog81]

I'm a complete noob when it comes to dSLRs and I'm trying to get the correct color come through on my coral shots. My fish shots are great! but my corals are coming out with bland colors or blown out blues. Anyone have any tips for settings to get correct colors to come out? My old canon P&S, set on the underwater mode, took better pictures of my corals!
Thanks in advance.

 

[reefkeeperaxm]

I use the same camera, shoot on av mode, ISO 100, f/11-16, as far as the colors, I've also had a bit of trouble absorbing the correct colors. I find that with a nice version of photoshop, you can manipulate the RAW images so that they look very close to the actual colors. Of course im not a pro, but thats as close as I came to getting it.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Yep, your best bet is photographing in RAW and changing the white balance with a RAW processing software.

 

[poidog81]

I was hoping that I would not have to photoshop each picture that I take, and set the camera to take a correct image. Does the color have to do with the white balance? Like I said prior my canon point and shoot processed very true color in their "underwater" mode. I'm sure on a neat $1000 camera I can recreate those setting from the $300 point and shoot.

any ideas?

 

[FishyBiz]

You need to set your white balance.
Read your manual "custom white balance"

 

[poidog81]

You need to set your white balance.
Read your manual "custom white balance"

I tried that but then everything came out green/yellow dingy tones.

 

[reefkeeperaxm]

I'm sure on a neat $1000 camera I can recreate those setting from the $300 point and shoot.

any ideas?

Lol, don't be so sure, I had a 5D for a while, I did the same thing on that as well; adjusted the colors on the computer. While the expansive cameras and lenses will give you nice sharp and crisp images, most of the time the second part to that is editing that image, by cropping what you dont need and adjusting the color tones. Just my take on it.