Radion/led settings for photography

[Denisk]

Hello,

curious does anyone have any template and or setting for their radions when specifically taking photos?

I use to run t5’ and had less of a problem but that was years ago. Now I’m back in the hobby and trying to take photos with my dslr under my radions and the blue just washes out all the corals/fish.

any tips to the radion settings during photo shoots?

Thank you!

 

[T_BONE]

You may want to get a filter lens for your camera. In my experience this worked out the best for me when trying to get quality photos with my XR30 Pro. Hope this helps.

 

[Denisk]

You may want to get a filter lens for your camera. In my experience this worked out the best for me when trying to get quality photos with my XR30 Pro. Hope this helps.

Thank you! I may have to look into that. Is it a specific type of lens?

 

[afrokobe]

Thank you! I may have to look into that. Is it a specific type of lens?

depends what you are shooting with. Orphek has a nice iphone clip lens kit.

 

[ilyad]

Orphek also has a large clip lens kit (52mm) and they fit some of the smaller digital cameras too. So you can still use it on a phone or some cameras.

 

[afrokobe]

Orphek also has a large clip lens kit (52mm) and they fit some of the smaller digital cameras too. So you can still use it on a phone or some cameras.

yea the 52mm is perfect for aps-c lens. you can get a step up ring if your lens is too small (or step down if too big, but I would worry if its not big enough to have full coverage). I much prefer the orphek lens over tiffen even when shooting with a camera.

 

[maroun.c]

My tank has mixed halides and radions.
Fish shots whites and warm whites to the max with about 30-40 percent blues. Intensity at 100 percent. This gives me better colors and max light for fast shutter speeds.
Sps and most softies lights similar to abllove but maybe a bit more blue.
Lps I add more blue and either shoot with an Amber filter or adjust wb in post processing.
All pics are shot in raw and processed for wb correction tion in Adobe camera raw where the wb picker over a gray area in the picture makes wb correction super easy. Little manual fine tuning fir wb after.

 

[strawberryfish]

I had a Photography scene set up in mobius but my tank settings got erased due to an app issue, and have yet to remake it. All I can say is when you get it set up use the back up feature under troubleshooting in the settings. That way you don't have to frustratingly reset your schedule and scenes if the mobius app stops working.

 

[Denisk]

depends what you are shooting with. Orphek has a nice iphone clip lens kit.

Shooting with a canon 80d and 100mm

 

[Denisk]

Orphek also has a large clip lens kit (52mm) and they fit some of the smaller digital cameras too. So you can still use it on a phone or some cameras.

good to know! Thank you!

 

[Denisk]

My tank has mixed halides and radions.
Fish shots whites and warm whites to the max with about 30-40 percent blues. Intensity at 100 percent. This gives me better colors and max light for fast shutter speeds.
Sps and most softies lights similar to abllove but maybe a bit more blue.
Lps I add more blue and either shoot with an Amber filter or adjust wb in post processing.
All pics are shot in raw and processed for wb correction tion in Adobe camera raw where the wb picker over a gray area in the picture makes wb correction super easy. Little manual fine tuning fir wb after.

Much appreciated! I set it to 14k at 100% and had some photos that could look good once edited a little more.

I had a Photography scene set up in mobius but my tank settings got erased due to an app issue, and have yet to remake it. All I can say is when you get it set up use the back up feature under troubleshooting in the settings. That way you don't have to frustratingly reset your schedule and scenes if the mobius app stops working.

Yeah that’s what I currently just did with 14k at 100%. Much better than being under the heavy blues. But I feel like I can tweak it to be better!

 

[mfinn]

Can't you just set the cameras white balance to the normal tank color?
The old white plate trick?

 

[afrokobe]

sometimes you just want that ultra blue coral glow and hard to shoot that without an orange filter lens.

Shooting with a canon 80d and 100mm

yea the orphek kit probably is too small for full frame. You might want to look at tiffen filters if you want to shoot blue with orange filters.

 

[Denisk]

Can't you just set the cameras white balance to the normal tank color?
The old white plate trick?

Good point. I could do that. But I guess it ends up taking away the colors you see of the corals. So I wasn’t sure how people get those beautiful colors of the sps without being to blue but also not to light where the colors of the acros get washed out

 

[exnisstech]

Good point. I could do that. But I guess it ends up taking away the colors you see of the corals. So I wasn’t sure how people get those beautiful colors of the sps without being to blue but also not to light where the colors of the acros get washed out

Post processing. Most corals don't look anything like the pictures many vendors and hobbiest post.

 

[Denisk]

Post processing. Most corals don't look anything like the pictures many vendors and hobbiest post.

Ok I guess Lightroom is something I’ll have to invest into. Thank you!

 

[exnisstech]

Ok I guess Lightroom is something I’ll have to invest into. Thank you!

Maybe check out Gimp It's free. I think light room is a subscription based software now which I kinda have a problem with but I'm funny like that.

 

[Denisk]

Maybe check out Gimp It's free. I think light room is a subscription based software now which I kinda have a problem with but I'm funny like that.

It is subscription based. I’ll definitely take a look. Much appreciated for the suggestion