Photography

[sandman49]

This may sound silly but I just finished installing the Kessil A360x’s on my aquarium and I’d like to take a few pictures and when I do all my photos have a blue hue and I’ve tried just about everything to put just white light on and I’m still getting a completely blue hue over the entire tank so if anybody’s has a simple answer to what I’m doing wrong I’d appreciate it

 

[exnisstech]

Need to change the white balance on the camera or use an orange filter. If on a phone dig around and see It has a mode that let's you change WB. My Samsung it's called pro mode. Head on over the photography sections and there are some stickies that should be helpful.

 

[Soren]

This may sound silly but I just finished installing the Kessil A360x’s on my aquarium and I’d like to take a few pictures and when I do all my photos have a blue hue and I’ve tried just about everything to put just white light on and I’m still getting a completely blue hue over the entire tank so if anybody’s has a simple answer to what I’m doing wrong I’d appreciate it

I second what @exnisstech said above:
Typical reef lighting requires a different white balance or the use of an orange/yellow filter to get the same appearance as seen with the eye.

I noticed this directly one time I visited my LFS with permission to take pictures. I forgot to bring the lens adapter to fit orange/yellow filters on my camera, so I fiddled with white balance/color balance and got decent correction to real-view coloration.

Edit: This was with a Pentax DSLR camera.

Without corrected white/color balance (blue wash):

With corrected white/color balance (real view):

 

[sandman49]

Thanks everyone that’s helpful