Radion settings for pictures?

[Rakie]

I know a few people instead of working with their camera and fighting the heavy blue light actually adjust the lighting for pictures, then back to normal after.

What do you guys that do this switch the lighting to?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Try a 14k look.

Or, bring everything to an even ratito , (close to the same intensity as your par) set the camera to the highest CT(prob 10,000k) and adjust the blue to where you just get a tiny pop from it.

 

[Rakie]

Thanks much!

I'm using an ancient Canon G7 point and shoot, it's on the upper end of P&S cameras but I don't have any color temp adjustments. With T5 things were much simpler to get a good pic, but with the Radions I'm gonna have to meet the camera half way from here out haha

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Perfect.
Yup that fist process should work. The second one might not becuse the camera may keep shifting color balance. If it has a cloudy or shade preset try that.

 

[Rakie]

Perfect.
Yup that fist process should work. The second one might not becuse the camera may keep shifting color balance. If it has a cloudy or shade preset try that.

Yeah it does, but it also has an "Automatic White Balance Adjustment" where you point at something, click, and it adjusts the WB based on the item you're shooting. I think to take full advantage of that I was told to get a neutral grey card and use the Auto WB adjust for it under water. But I never got that far, just used it on a grey rock and it was close enough with T5's.

Photography is a tricky beast. The more particular you are the more you see each tweak necessitates a counter-tweak of a different setting.

 

[smokin'reefer]

I have problems with post production in Lightroom, so I just set my Radions at 14k like salty says. No editing needed.

You might also trying a few at some different setting. It seems I got some good shots with "white and royal" settings. 10k and 12k seemed to give good results also. Minor differences.

 

[Rakie]

For me the trick to good post production is great pre-production. Most of my images need almost zero modification. i set black point to like 0.01-3, and adjust brightness/shadows. that's it. I don't even touch colors, saturation, hue -- none of those liar settings.

Here's some of my last shots from a few days ago to last month

 

[tenurepro]

Like salty, I like to help the camera’s white balance a bit. I set the lights to 12k, set the wb on my Nikon to 10000 (max for me). Then shoot... this gets pretty close to what things look like. For my keeping track of the tank pictures, I keep the files without any post processing... if I am feeling artistic a bit, I go and do a bit more editing to bring out the blues.

Here a few pictures taken with the above settings, just to monitor sps growth

Ps. Sometimes setting the camera at 10k and keeping the radions at 20k make for some catchy and stark shots, like the one taken at this video... emulates the mood of the tank during sunset and sunrise

 

[bretts]

I know this is an older thread, but I think it’s worth bumping up. I’ve always been frustrated trying to take pictures of the tank with my phone and I’ve made some half hearted attempts to play around with the settings on my radions to try to come up with something that works for pictures, but I had little success.

I just tried the settings shown above and they work great:) I can take beautiful pictures of the tank now without the camera getting overwhelmed by the blues.

I set up a profile on my apex called PhotoMode with the settings shown above (100% for each channel and 30% overall) and I set up a virtual outlet called PhotoMode that will activate the new profile on my lights when I turn it on. So now I can just turn on that virtual outlet whenever I want to take pictures of the tank:)

 

[tenurepro]

I know this is an older thread, but I think it’s worth bumping up. I’ve always been frustrated trying to take pictures of the tank with my phone and I’ve made some half hearted attempts to play around with the settings on my radions to try to come up with something that works for pictures, but I had little success.

I just tried the settings shown above and they work great:) I can take beautiful pictures of the tank now without the camera getting overwhelmed by the blues.

I set up a profile on my apex called PhotoMode with the settings shown above (100% for each channel and 30% overall) and I set up a virtual outlet called PhotoMode that will activate the new profile on my lights when I turn it on. So now I can just turn on that virtual outlet whenever I want to take pictures of the tank:)

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