Taking Pics of a Tank Lit with LEDS Sony A100

[SaguaroSteve]

Hey all!
My buddy is lending me his Sony A100 to use and I know absolutely nothing about photography, I'm trying to take some macros and a FTS, but the issue I run into with both is that the picture looks nothing like it. It's waywayway more blue in the picture among some other things as well. I was hoping someone could tell me how I can correct this and if so how do I change the setting on the camera :headwally:

This is the problem I frequently get, I snapped this with everything on AUTO (I think).

Cheers!

 

[Misled]

Shoot in RAW. Raw mode is ideal for aquarium photography because the images have not been adjusted by the camera at all: no color adjustments, tone, contrast, sharpening, etc. All of those adjustments are done on the computer with special software made just for that purpose. The beauty of raw mode is that the white balance is set after the image is made. This allows a great amount of flexibility and is a huge blessing for those of us with extremely blue lighting over our tanks. With most raw conversion software the white balance actually can be set by color temperature. Combine that with minor adjustments in the green/magenta and blue/yellow channels and you can usually get accurate colors from even the most photographically challenging tanks.

 

[SaguaroSteve]

Can you point me in the right direction in terms of software for editing/converting? Would iPhoto version 9.2.3 be able to convert the images?

 

[Misled]

I'd imagine the software that came with the camera should contain a program. There are other freeware programs if you google "RAW editing programs". I use Photoshop and Lightroom.