Blue

[DonW]

How do you get rid of the blue from the 20k bulbs in tank photos?

Don

 

[Scooterman]

Adjust your White Balance!

 

[Blazer88]

Shoot RAW, photoshop.

 

[DonW]

Adjust your White Balance!

I'll have to find the manual I guess. Ive got a fuji s5000 not sure it does that.

Don

 

[Scooterman]

You can adjust the white balance with that camera, I just don't remember how.

 

[DonW]

You can adjust the white balance with that camera, I just don't remember how.

I'll find the manual. I just use the point and shoot auto everything. RAW, what is that?

Don

 

[Scooterman]

RAW can also be done but unless your really wanting to get into the fines arts of printing & have a program like photo-shop to manually modify the pictures It isn't worth it but you can tweak the pictures better. RAW is an unprocessed picture, the camera doesn't do anything electronically to adjust it.

 

[DonW]

RAW can also be done but unless your really wanting to get into the fines arts of printing & have a program like photo-shop to manually modify the pictures It isn't worth it but you can tweak the pictures better. RAW is an unprocessed picture, the camera doesn't do anything electronically to adjust it.

Thanks, I appreciate the simple explanation. I'll play with the white balance. I dont have any photo software. I just use power toys to resize and thats it.

Don

 

[Krish]

I use custom white balance which you take a pic of the tank and it adjusts the camera to the proper color as autop usually for me is very blue. I did it with my old Nikon as well as my new Canon, but it is white balance you'll need to adjust. Find that manual

 

[dragoneggs]

The Fuji S5000 can shoot in JPEG or RAW. It also has auto or manual WB (white balance). I don't know how much control you have in manual as it looks like you have some preset settings in manual. That may not be enough of a shift to handle your lighting.

Some cameras (like my canon20D) have a custom WB that allows you to shoot a white object to set your white balance. It does take a bit of playing around with the camera to get it right.

That said if your camera can't get proper white balance (still too blue) you can use photoshop or some other photo editing program to adjust your digital photos if you shoot in RAW mode. I find it easier to adjust in post processing than to mess with it during the shoot. You have enough other settings to get right while shooting.

 

[Nikon_Guy]

Back in the day before digital and photoshop, us old folks used orange colored lens filters to remove the blue hue from photographs.

Although I’ve never had the occasion to try it in a fish tank, I bet that it coupled with a UV filter would solve your problem to some extent.

 

[dragoneggs]

Ha Ha... I almost forgot about that. I still have some gel filters buried somewhere along with my enlarger and some chemicals that are probably eating their way through their containers.

 

[gman0526]

Don, read this it should help you

http://www.ximinasphotography.com/lessons/lesson04/lighting_2.html#White Balance

 

[Llarian]

If you have Photoshop, you can approximate a white balance change by using Levels (or better, Curves) and reducing the blue channel, since 20k lights cause a blue cast across the entire image.

If you use that, you'll likely need to leave at least some of the blue cast in place to preserve the colors of the coral, but you should be able to get relativly close.

-Dylan

 

[Krish]

Don...If this is your camera, then from what I read in "the bad" about the camera on the page below, you can't set a custom white balance so you may have to use a software program to do it for you

http://reviews.cnet.com/Fujifilm_FinePix_S5000/4505-6501_7-30468939.html

 

[DonW]

Don...If this is your camera, then from what I read in "the bad" about the camera on the page below, you can't set a custom white balance so you may have to use a software program to do it for you

http://reviews.cnet.com/Fujifilm_FinePix_S5000/4505-6501_7-30468939.html

Ya thats the one. I did find I could play a little with color with the program that comes with ms office pro. Oh well I'll just keep posting my blue pictures.

Don

 

[Krish]

Or...Tell the wife it's time for a new camera