Gel Filters for IPhone 6 Question

[Jimbo]

I just got a stack of gel filters I bought off of EBay. It comes with so many ( looks like paint color samples lol)sorry for the stupid question but how do you use these? How do you know which color to use?

The main problem I have had is way too much blue in the pics I've taken.

 

[hatfielj]

I have not used these myself, but I'm looking to buy a filter for my DSLR. The ones used for underwater photography are the red/cyan color. This takes the blue out and corrects the color to a more natural spectrum. It won't necessarily correct it completely however. So, just keep that in mind. If I were you I would just take all of the red toned ones you have and try each one. Use the one that looks most accurate to your eye. Good luck!

 

[Stephanie11]

Hey! Go for an orange gel. 95% of those filters will be junk. Just hold it In front of the lens and look through the view finder / screen. You will imediatly know which ones to choose from. From the swatch book I have I only use one. It makes the picture look like the corals actually look. I'm not a fan of tricks to sell coral.

Sometimes I use a phone macro lens, but that's even trickier. I have to hold phone, macro, and filter. Look at my avatar pic!

And sometimes you can't get a good pic, but there are different factors to that.

 

[Stephanie11]

Oh another thing.

If there is too much blue for the filter you will still get blue. There is a transparency that the filter can handle.

No filter


Filter

 

[NanaReefer]

I use the lightest of orange!

 

[Jimbo]

Thanks for the help , appreciate it.