Had to share this pic, Acro crab in it's acropora colony

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I use one of these. I set it up so the screws are tightened up on the focus ring of my 150mm macro lens. Camera is also setup on a tripod. Doing that allows me to rotate the housing to manually set focus. Generally i digitally zoom in on what i want to focus on to get sharper focus. I use a higher f/stop i think this was f20ish, ISO 500, and shutter speed of about 1/8th sec. I also use the metering function and set it to take the picture under exposed by a half step of so to help not blowing out some of the brighter spots. Hope that helps.

I take the pictures with the yellow filter under full spectrum lights and correct WB in lightroom.
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Great pic. What kind of photo tube is that? Does it come with the yellow filter? Pretty cool idea. I've always had to do a lot more WB in photoshop to get things correct, but with a filter like that it would speed things up a bit.
 
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Great pic. What kind of photo tube is that? Does it come with the yellow filter? Pretty cool idea. I've always had to do a lot more WB in photoshop to get things correct, but with a filter like that it would speed things up a bit.

Coral headz. Picked it up on ebay. You can get clear or the filtered one. I've found i get really nice pics with the full spectrum lighting and this filter. The raw pic is really yellow but lightroom does a great job bringing it back with the WB and hue(i think thats what its called) adjustments. I just adjust it until it matches what i see in the tank.
 

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