thewackyreefer
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Here are a couple of mine taken with a Canon PowerShot SD700 IS.
The Point & Shoot Challenge
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OP
OP
The first one looks pretty good, but the funky sand color makes me wonder about the accuracy of the white-balance adjustment. The image is also very centered and the small pieces on the left and lower right are distracting. Get tighter to eliminate those distractions and use the Rule of Thirds to make a more interesting image. The second image is fine for an acan shot but quite a bit overexposed. Adjust the camera to underexpose by a stop, maybe two.
Gary
Gary
SDguy
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Thanks for the info! I will try the trick with the timer, since I do in fact have to press the button through the waterproof housing pretty hard, thereby moving the camera a bit I'm sure. As for the color... unfortunately, no, that is the least blue of all the settings available, at least from what I have tried
I'm going to try some other tricks, like the "weak flash" setting and such.
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Kodak 5 MP point and shoot.
Brad Syphus
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I took this a few years ago useing my old Kodak
I sometimes wonder why I changed cameras.
I sometimes wonder why I changed cameras.
MitchReef
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Canon SX100 is, point and shoot, and I shoot all these hand held, it's just too much hassle getting the tripod out all the time!
GreenBay Packers. These are tiny, only about 4 mm across.
I love the way you can see that the striations on this coral are actual texture and not just color
Montipora digitata polyp extension
Just a cool shot
Hawkins Blue echinata
I don't blame my camera for problems, they are generally the fault of my nearly 53 year old hands not being as steady as they used to be.
GreenBay Packers. These are tiny, only about 4 mm across.
I love the way you can see that the striations on this coral are actual texture and not just color
Montipora digitata polyp extension
Just a cool shot
Hawkins Blue echinata
I don't blame my camera for problems, they are generally the fault of my nearly 53 year old hands not being as steady as they used to be.
OP
OP
Good catch, SD. The flash handled the coral reasonably well. I prefer to not use flash with coral shots. It worked fairly well on this one but usually ruins the coral color.
Gary
Gary
Fishcrazy06
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Unfortunately I just went through taking a ton of pictures and my camera Kodak c713 will not allow me adjust the white balance. The choices are Auto, Daylight, Tungsten, Fluorescent, and Open Shade. Pretty much everyone I chose gave me a bluish looking picture. Unless I used flash. Here is one I took with screwing around with settings. Not sure where to start been trying a little of this and a little of that with this camera and never seem to be happy. Feel free to delete:
Lazys Coral House
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Here my point and shoot. It is Panasonic Limux
Acrokeeper3729
Premium member
"Nicks: It looks like your white balance is off by quite a bit. The white areas are white because they’re blown. Where they’re not blown, there is a definite blue cast."
Just wondering what exactly you mean by the white in the pics is white because they are blown? Whats blown? Also the blue cast is from my Radiums and thats how the corals actually look in my tank. When I take a pic thats what I am shooting to do is replicate in my pic the coral the way I am seeing it in my tank. Is this not what I should be striving for? My tank looks blue and does cast some blue light in white areas. I dont think my pics look washed out in blue like they do if I leave the white balance alone.
I am just trying to figure out what you mean. Thats all. Should I be striving to eliminate the blue from the lights altogether?
I can eliminate the blue totaly but I think these are a truer color of how they look to the eye when looking into "my" tank.
Just wondering what exactly you mean by the white in the pics is white because they are blown? Whats blown? Also the blue cast is from my Radiums and thats how the corals actually look in my tank. When I take a pic thats what I am shooting to do is replicate in my pic the coral the way I am seeing it in my tank. Is this not what I should be striving for? My tank looks blue and does cast some blue light in white areas. I dont think my pics look washed out in blue like they do if I leave the white balance alone.
I am just trying to figure out what you mean. Thats all. Should I be striving to eliminate the blue from the lights altogether?
I can eliminate the blue totaly but I think these are a truer color of how they look to the eye when looking into "my" tank.
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OP
OP
I'm giving workshops on March 13 at the new store in Highland Park. There's a thread in the CMAS forum over at the Dark Side.
Gary
OP
OP
I expected you would have that reaction. Yes, I think the white balance should eliminate the blue cast introduced by your lights, giving the true coral color. I realize that your corals look like that under your lights. Ultimately, they're your corals and your photos. If you want them to look blue, you're certainly entitled to do so. My personal preference with coral photos is to eliminate the blue and show the true colors, but that's just my preference.
Gary
