too brigh to take a pic.

[saveafish]

ok I wanted to take a good pic of the tank. But when I did it was so bright it came out as a bright blue wash out.

I am not knocking enyone here. But with the same settings i took a pic at premium aquatic's tank and it was a beautiful pic. one with my cell phone and the other with my fiji fine pix's boath were very good.

But when I came home and tried to take several of mine. It was like taking one of the sun. Is it becuse premium uses less than standered lights or are mine just a lot brighter. If I rember right they had dim MH and i got 8 T5's

I am hoping that someone who has been to premium can answer this as they will have seen their tanks.

Maybe I need to take some photo classes.

 

[Toddrtrex]

What camera are you using? And what settings?

 

[KurtsReef]

Re: too brigh to take a pic.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13176211#post13176211 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saveafish

Maybe I need to take some photo classes.

If you want to know what your doing, that or read some books on the subject.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Research "exposure". I guarantee your tank is not too bright. Too dark is what we fight.

 

[saveafish]

This will help a lot thanks as I looked at the settings there was a type of lights like floresents,, sunlight this did help me a lot.

 

[KurtsReef]

That is more than likely just your white balance setting and has absolutely nothing to do with exposure will only effect the colors.

Three things effect exposure:

Aperture
Shutter Speed
ISO

"Understanding exposure" is an excellent book, perhaps a free read from the library or buy it for around 25.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Just google "exposure" and read read read. Like KurtsReef said, "floresents", "sunlight", ect. ect. has nothing to do with your problem. You should post a pic because maybe we don't really even know what your problem is.

 

[drparker]

The best book on exposure is Bryan Peterson's "Understanding Exposure", it's a must read for anyone wanting to go farther than just auto mode.

Your probably set to auto exposure. So the camera looks at the whole scene and tries to get the best balance between light and dark areas. If I remember correctly Premium has pretty even lighting inside the tanks and out. So not a huge swing between light and dark areas. You home system probably has a lot bigger difference between dark and light. Thus to make up for the dark it over exposes the light areas.

When you get off of Auto and start setting Aperture, shutter etc. you'll be able to expose for the tank.

You might want see if the Cool Pix has meter modes. If so setting it to spot meter might help.