Can't pick up the blues

[Chinook]

I have a Canon EOS rebel T5i with a EFS18-135mm lens and i cant seem to pick up the florecent blue tips of the new growth on my sps. Is there a setting that i should have it on? the tips look whitish not bright baby blue. Havent had the camera for long and trying to get some nice frag picks.Any help would be great. Is there a online photography course anyone recommends as well?

 

[Va_Reef]

If you are shooting under LEDs, your best bet is to shoot in the RAW setting, ISO of 200, and f-stop between 9-13. From there you would upload the photo into a post editing program, such as light room, and adjust to how you see the coral. A trick is to use something white in the background, such as a frag plug or sandbed, and adjust the photo so as the plug/sandbed/white object appears white again.

Keep in mind, new growth in sps is typically white, not blue. The blue coloration can be coming from the white tissue reflecting the blue light from LEDs, giving it the appearance of blue.

 

[Chinook]

I'm running t5 currently, I didn't know that about the white tips. I will try out this setting thanks alot. My lighting is
6 blue+
1 coral +
1 purple +

 

[Va_Reef]

Ah, similar to my setting. I find taking a shot under just the coral+ and purple+ provides a very accurate representation of the coral, requiring little to no post photography editing.

 

[Chinook]

There are alot of different settings and thing to play with in these new cameras very over welming

 

[Chinook]

Hmm I may give that a try then

 

[Chinook]

That will pick up florecent blues?

 

[Russo757]

If you are shooting under LEDs, your best bet is to shoot in the RAW setting, ISO of 200, and f-stop between 9-13. From there you would upload the photo into a post editing program, such as light room, and adjust to how you see the coral. A trick is to use something white in the background, such as a frag plug or sandbed, and adjust the photo so as the plug/sandbed/white object appears white again.

Keep in mind, new growth in sps is typically white, not blue. The blue coloration can be coming from the white tissue reflecting the blue light from LEDs, giving it the appearance of blue.

I'm new to shooting and using a Nikon D3400. I have LEDs and even with lower ISO and fstop between 9-11 I still pull in a lot of blue from the lights which washes out the colors. How do you capture the colors from the corals under blue lighting? Ive had luck adding more white to the spectrum but the corals lose a lot of that pop that they have under a more predominant blue lighting and lightroom can only do so much without the coral looking fake. Id like to try and capture as close as possible to the real thing and only edit minimally.

 

[Va_Reef]

I'm new to shooting and using a Nikon D3400. I have LEDs and even with lower ISO and fstop between 9-11 I still pull in a lot of blue from the lights which washes out the colors. How do you capture the colors from the corals under blue lighting? Ive had luck adding more white to the spectrum but the corals lose a lot of that pop that they have under a more predominant blue lighting and lightroom can only do so much without the coral looking fake. Id like to try and capture as close as possible to the real thing and only edit minimally.

Ryan, I hear that Adrian guy actually has no idea about photography lol.

Unfortunately with LEDs you just have to use that method. I'm not aware of any way around it and this is the method many of the great reef photographers use. With the T5s on the frag system you will most likely require no editing whatsoever.