Taking photos

[jonnyu]

I would like to know if there is a way to take photos with a note 3. When I take photos they come out very blue. If I have white lights on then you can't really see the color of the corals very much. If phone is not possible is there a camera that is recommended for this. Or what features do I need in a camera to take photos

 

[Kyle954]

I would like to know if there is a way to take photos with a note 3. When I take photos they come out very blue. If I have white lights on then you can't really see the color of the corals very much. If phone is not possible is there a camera that is recommended for this. Or what features do I need in a camera to take photos

I have the note as well, if you go into the settings you can change the ISO settings as well as other stuff to make the pics come out a little better. Just sit in front of the tank and mess around with the settings a little.

I also reccomend taking photos in HD mode, they come out quite impressive on mine :thumbsup:

 

[knukles55]

I have the same phone just change the white balance to cloudy I mean its not DSLR quality but its good enough

 

[knukles55]

I run t5s

 

[G_Sanab922]

I have the same phone just change the white balance to cloudy I mean its not DSLR quality but its good enough

This +1 get an editor that will allow you to adjust the white balance

 

[rovster]

If you run LEDs then forget about getting good pictures with a phone. Its hard enough with a REAL camera!

 

[Serega]

There is an easy way to do it with an addition of a gel "filter" in front of the lens.
Here are some before and after photos all taken with an IPhone 5.

 

[jonnyu]

If you run LEDs then forget about getting good pictures with a phone. Its hard enough with a REAL camera!

I do run led lights. So there is no hope ?

 

[jonnyu]

I have the same phone just change the white balance to cloudy I mean its not DSLR quality but its good enough

Looks great I will try when I get home

I run t5s

Tank looks great

 

[AquamanE]

I have the same phone just change the white balance to cloudy I mean its not DSLR quality but its good enough

Very nice knuckles. I use a DSLR and these look just as good.

 

[rovster]

There is an easy way to do it with an addition of a gel "filter" in front of the lens.
Here are some before and after photos all taken with an IPhone 5.

Wow, never seen that! There is hope after all!! I have some googling to do. Thanks so much for sharing.

 

[jonnyu]

There is an easy way to do it with an addition of a gel "filter" in front of the lens.
Here are some before and after photos all taken with an IPhone 5.

Where do you get this filter ?

 

[mrx66699]

If you run LEDs then forget about getting good pictures with a phone. Its hard enough with a REAL camera!

I think your mistaken on this I have the samsung s5 and the picks come out crazy sick sometimes......

 

[DamonG]

Ask taken with my note 3. No filters, just played with the iso and white balance(normal picture taking stuff) within the phone camera(stock Samsung cam app). My note 4 pictures actually are insanely better(the camera is that much better) but I have yet to snap any of the tank..

Any camera is just a tool and as long as the optics are decent, you should, as long as you know how to work with it, produce some half way decent shots..

 

[rovster]

Damon what lights do you run? I assume t5 or possibly halide? LEDs are notoriously difficult to take pics under. I didn't realize that until I threw a halide over my tank and pics came out great whether with my dslr or phone. Now that I went back to led, my pics duck again without a lot if messing with it and post processing.

 

[DamonG]

Damon what lights do you run? I assume t5 or possibly halide? LEDs are notoriously difficult to take pics under. I didn't realize that until I threw a halide over my tank and pics came out great whether with my dslr or phone. Now that I went back to led, my pics duck again without a lot if messing with it and post processing.

Right now I'm running 2 current orbit marine fixtures. Full led.

The funny thing that most, and I just realized, there is an easy way... Lol, don't fiddle with the camera like I did and take all day finding settings. Just change your lights! That's the smart and easy way. You have the ability to change things to natural without too much trouble. And honestly, that would have saved mange about 2 weeks of messing with the camera.

The lighting is gonna be "false" anyhow because even if your under halide,t5, led, etc, the color rendition is skewed.

If I had to go back, and this may be what I do with this phone, is to just set a lighting profile with my timer/controller.

The only thing is, say, because I'm upgrading to reef breeders fixtures again that have very little in the 10k to 12k spectrum, that will be a little more difficult to do with the lights. I'm just thinking out loud on that and haven't tried it yet..

 

[rovster]

Wow, hard to believe but I'm impressed!

 

[DamonG]

Wow, hard to believe but I'm impressed!

Thank you and I'm not going to say at all I just snapped the picture and it just came out that way first try. I played with settings. But I do that with all my cameras, whether it's my camcorder, when I had dslrs, and now my phones.

Like this one I have now. I have taken tons of pictures of my feet, the walls, glasses, comforter wrinkles, crazy stuff that really is stupid. But that's how I learn the camera and what it can and can't do. Once I do that, I can snap just about anything within reason.. That's why I haven't taken any tank shots yet, and I've had this phone for almost a week. I don't fully understand the camera yet..

 

[Serega]

Where do you get this filter ?

I can't take credit for this. I got my gels from someone else on my local forum, he is on here too, this is the original link http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2356487 No messing around with white balance or anything else.
Good luck.