iPhone photography

ndz98 · Mar 23, 2017

I'm sure there's a million posts on this but I'll make it a million and one anyways.

How do you guys with iPhones take pictures of your corals under LEDs? How do you get rid of the blue? What app do you use if any?

Frop · Mar 23, 2017

ndz98 said:
I'm sure there's a million posts on this but I'll make it a million and one anyways.

How do you guys with iPhones take pictures of your corals under LEDs? How do you get rid of the blue? What app do you use if any?

I had some filters. If not then I turn the blues down on my LEDs

ndz98 · Mar 23, 2017

Frop said:
I had some filters. If not then I turn the blues down on my LEDs

You mean like those little gel filters you can buy online and just stick in front of the lens before you take the picture?

Frop · Mar 23, 2017

ndz98 said:
You mean like those little gel filters you can buy online and just stick in front of the lens before you take the picture?

Ya. I got one set on eBay and it helped but still didn't make it perfect. Also the first filter I got was way better than the second. Not sure I think the first set was thinner with less marks but I'm not a photography buff. Hints why I'm just using my cellphone.

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 23, 2017

That and look for the Roscoe gel book on Amazon. Lots of colors to play with.

Another tip. Point the phone camera at the tank then open the camera app. It gets a better color balance that way for no good reason that I can figure out.

CarrieB · Mar 23, 2017

I use a manual camera app to adjust the white setting. Not perfect, but better.

ndz98 · Mar 23, 2017

CarrieB said:
I use a manual camera app to adjust the white setting. Not perfect, but better.

What's it called?

CarrieB · Mar 23, 2017

Manual Camera - Custom Exposure and ... by Kenditech

tvu · Mar 23, 2017

Iphone7 plus has pretty good white balance. My old iPhone 6 always produced blue pics but my iPhone 7 plus looks like this

These pics are taken under SPS ab+ setting from Radion pro G4 so around 17-18k.

revhtree · Mar 23, 2017

When we were "filming" via our iphone at WWC they showed us a little trick with these orange safety glasses! We just placed the glasses over the lens and got some great images and video.

https://www.amazon.com/Pyramex-Safe...0295915&sr=8-2&keywords=orange+safety+glasses

revhtree · Mar 23, 2017

Oh and they are good for just making your corals look cool and protecting your eyes.

renato120 · Mar 23, 2017

There an app called snapseed. You can make your pictures looking just like when you are looking at them. Pm me and I can show how to do it.

LbulletM · Mar 23, 2017

Not sure if iPhone is the same, but on the Galaxies there is a "pro" mode that lets you adjust white balance, shutter speed, and ISO. With blues on, I pretty much turn my white balance up to 10,000K, turn my ISO all the way up to 800 (it's just a digital compensation, I believe, so no noise), and then adjust my shutter speed until I get nice rich colors.

tvu · Mar 23, 2017

It's nice to be able to just snap a picture and have it come out good enough to post. If i want pro style photos I'd bring out my canon with macro lens and edit raw format thru adobe lightroom. That's time consuming and I don't do it that often.

rockstarta78 · Mar 24, 2017

renato120 said:
There an app called snapseed. You can make your pictures looking just like when you are looking at them. Pm me and I can show how to do it.

I have used snapspeed before. I confess I'm not good at it. How do you use it? What are your settings?

LbulletM · Mar 24, 2017

tvu said:
It's nice to be able to just snap a picture and have it come out good enough to post. If i want pro style photos I'd bring out my canon with macro lens and edit raw format thru adobe lightroom. That's time consuming and I don't do it that often.

The "pro" mode on my phone literally takes 15 seconds to dial in (if that) and you can even save profiles which as long as you're shooting under similar lighting every time, would be perfect.

Straight from my phone, no post editing.

ahiggins · Mar 24, 2017

I have to agree with tvu on the iphone7 plus

MUCH better than iphone 6 camera. Usually I use a yellow filter if I want to show the pop of color...Im going to be ordering some of those glasses though LOL

jwshiver · Mar 24, 2017

I ordered this product from Amazon and it works great. Use the GC-Orange filter. It took about two weeks to arrive because it shipped direct from China. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LW1GRO3/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

ahiggins · Mar 24, 2017

Ohhhhh @rockstarta78 that app is awesome! and I saw your other post on which settings to use, it works REALLY well

thank you

AwildcatsZ · Mar 24, 2017

I use the app Camera+. It works very similar to snapspeed. I've used both and find Camera+ contains a few more options to help with removing the blue from pictures.