eureeka! found the right setting on my camera!

[reefkprz]

I have had this camera for a couple months now and have been messing with it constantly. some of my pictures have been pretty good, but seem to lack the oomph of the real color of a lot of my colorfull stuff, everything seems a little less bright or more washed out than it really is. I have some super bright stuff, but the pictures show it as Blah. it was my automatic white balance, none of the presets looked good. then I noticed there is a "measure white balance" I figured I would try it.
first picture is auto white balance,
second is measured whitbalance (this is what they look like in my tank)

 

[reefkprz]

my double ring pinks with measured white balance

 

[regina13]

I actually like both the new, and the old pic.

 

[reefkprz]

my orange snake zoas and my electric orange mini zoas. and no I am not photoshopping these pictures. my settings are : image mode; pc (1024) color; normal, measured whitebalance, ISO; 100, autofocus; center.

 

[regina13]

the colors really pop out!

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by regina13
I actually like both the new, and the old pic.
thanks, they are nice zoas, either way, I'm just glad I can show my truer colors now instead of showing a more washed out version of my stuff.

 

[samurai_sushi]

Nice! Could you post a picture of those neon green clove polyps?

 

[reefkprz]

sure can. as soon as I read your post I moved them to the front of the tank so I can get a good macro without focusing through a lot of water they should open up in a couple minutes.

 

[howardj]

You.. wouldn't happen to have any of those Electric Orange Mini Zoa frags, would you?

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by HowardJ
You.. wouldn't happen to have any of those Electric Orange Mini Zoa frags, would you?

I have one other (that i could part with) with three baby polyps on it (they are only about 1/8th of an inch) the frag I showed a picture of is my "mother" colony.
somehow after a fragging session I accidently sold my original mother colony

of 50+ polyps. I had three people over at once all asking this and that and the other thing and bagged the wrong colony. they never returned it.

I havent seen them since. I think they know they burnt me by not being honest about the mistake and havent returned. that was one of my more expensive mistakes. they paid $30 for a large frag of common oranges and got 50 of my hot little electric oranges.

 

[reefkprz]

honestly the colors have a little more zip than real life but they are a heck of a lot closer than the automatic whitebalance setting.

 

[howardj]

Wow, that sucks :-
Do you have any Zoa rocks w/ a lot of bright zoas on it?
I've been trying to find something like that.. or a tonga branch rock 7-8" w/different zoas/palys on it?

Sorry, I Love zoas

 

[reefkprz]

I could make you up a combo rock of various stuff if you wanted. zoas palys and protopalys. I love to frag stuff, so it wouldnt be a problem at all.

 

[jrthomas40]

wow...what kinda of camera is that

 

[reefkprz]

nikkon S-50

 

[groupergenius]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
I have one other (that i could part with) with three baby polyps on it (they are only about 1/8th of an inch) the frag I showed a picture of is my "mother" colony.
somehow after a fragging session I accidently sold my original mother colony

of 50+ polyps. I had three people over at once all asking this and that and the other thing and bagged the wrong colony. they never returned it.

I havent seen them since. I think they know they burnt me by not being honest about the mistake and havent returned. that was one of my more expensive mistakes. they paid $30 for a large frag of common oranges and got 50 of my hot little electric oranges.
By any chance...there wasn't Rum involved in that session was it?

 

[jennythebugg]

oh wow that third pic is beautiful the orange looks great

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by GrouperGenius
By any chance...there wasn't Rum involved in that session was it?

no rum just 400 questions and bouncing around showing all our animals and wheeling and dealing trying to trade for more stuff