Took a few new macros; what ya think?
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Rskillz,
Good looking photos, but you have the distraction of the blue spectrum because your camera is set to an "auto" white balance (White Balance = auto (0).
Try using a custom white balance setting to match your Canon T1i to your specific tank lighting. This wiil get rid of the blue cast and make your pictures a higher quality in terms of color balance.
This link has some info on how to do it and I pasted the info below:
White Balance Options
The Canon T1i offers a full range of White Balance settings, including six presets, an Auto setting, and a Custom setting. The six presets include Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, and Flash. The Custom setting bases color balance on a previous exposure, meaning you can snap an image of a white card and then base the color temperature on that image. There is no support for directly entering a color temperature in Kelvin though, a feature more commonly found on professional models.
A White Balance bracketing option snaps only one image, but then writes three successive files from that single capture. Bracketing steps are from -/+ 3 stops in whole-stop increments. (Each stop corresponds to five mireds of a color conversion filter, for a total range of +/- 15 mireds. This corresponds to about a +/- 500K shift at a normal daylight color temperature of 5,500K.)
The Canon T1i's WB Bracketing is set on the same grid as the White Balance correction control. Fairly sophisticated, the white balance correction tool lets you shift the color balance toward more or less green vs magenta or blue vs amber, using a +/-9 step grid format. You move a highlighted square through the grid to adjust the color balance, and bracketing adjustments spread the single square into a cluster of three.
Good looking photos, but you have the distraction of the blue spectrum because your camera is set to an "auto" white balance (White Balance = auto (0).
Try using a custom white balance setting to match your Canon T1i to your specific tank lighting. This wiil get rid of the blue cast and make your pictures a higher quality in terms of color balance.
This link has some info on how to do it and I pasted the info below:
White Balance Options
A White Balance bracketing option snaps only one image, but then writes three successive files from that single capture. Bracketing steps are from -/+ 3 stops in whole-stop increments. (Each stop corresponds to five mireds of a color conversion filter, for a total range of +/- 15 mireds. This corresponds to about a +/- 500K shift at a normal daylight color temperature of 5,500K.)
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Rskillz
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Wow, great info BeakerBob. I dropped a white frag plug in my tank and took a picture of it and then did a WB correction in Photoshop with the RAW pictures. I'll try it this way as well. Thanks for the info.
