Should we be using brown filters on phones for realistic pics?

[bubbaque]

If your tank runs on the bluer side of the light spectrum you probably use an orange filter to help with the blue. You will also notice it exaggerates all the colors if you use pure blue light. I might have found an alternative that gets you realistic pics without exaggerating the colors.

Check out the video to see some examples.

 

[DSC reef]

That's really cool! I actually don't like orange filters, it does exaggerate some colors and you can always tell. Thanks for sharing this.

 

[Oscaror]

If your tank runs on the bluer side of the light spectrum you probably use an orange filter to help with the blue. You will also notice it exaggerates all the colors if you use pure blue light. I might have found an alternative that gets you realistic pics without exaggerating the colors.

Check out the video to see some examples.

I noticed too that orange filters add an orange tint adding too much warmth to the corals. This is interesting good to see a more accurate alternative

 

[OnPointCorals]

According to your demonstration sure looks to be what we should be using.

I may pick one up to use when taking Cellphone pics.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Nice.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Good luck getting people who are selling $300 frags to use a brown filter. I do agree it's 10x more realistic than orange filters. I think certain led users and vendors have come to view the orange filters as standard now. Makes me sad, I would enjoy things to go back to how they were when we named corals by their color and species, and who or where it originated from.
I would like to see some close up shots with brown filters to see how they look.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

Anyone know where to get a brown filter for a phone? I saw some that looked to be for traditional camera's but had coffee instead of brown. They looked more black than brown tho.

 

[Stickboy15]

I don’t see anything wrong with orange filters because you should know what the coral looks like before you buy so if you know what a homewrecker looks like then if ones under a orange filter just to see what the actual frag looks like

 

[hart24601]

Nice! I have a large sample filter pack and can generally find a shade of orange that works well, it’s pretty light, but will look at brown!

 

[DSC reef]

That's the point @Stickboy15, orange filters don't show true colors and is a misrepresentation of corals IMO.

 

[hart24601]

My lights are still ramping up and blue but quickly tried the chocolate filter. And it seem to match side by side what I see. What sort of witchcraft is this?!?

 

[WWIII]

That's pretty darn perfect! The orange filters really do a disservice to anyone using them to sell. I know I just move on if I see a vendor or "person" using them to try and sell corals. It's also unfair to newer hobbyist who think that there's actually corals out there that look like they are on fire. (Some do, but very few). Then they buy them, usually for good amounts of $, recieve them and are completely disappointed.

Good find @bubbaque !

 

[Crimsonvice]

Awesome! Nice find. I will be picking some up for sure.

 

[WWIII]

Is that polyplab or someone else's filters bubba? Sorry if I missed it

 

[bubbaque]

Remember this is for sharing pics/videos for those who run bluer tanks and not pure actinic.

Anyone know where to get a brown filter for a phone? I saw some that looked to be for traditional camera's but had coffee instead of brown. They looked more black than brown tho.

This is the pack I bought. https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Compl...SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=dslr+camera+filters

 

[Swingline77]

That's a good idea. An even better idea might be to adjust things with software. A test photo or video is first taken in which there is a piece of white plastic in the tank. The plastic is then removed, and filming is done as usual. On the computer, the white piece of plastic will look tinted. Using the software, the color balance is corrected until the plastic looks white. When this is done, the color inaccuracies of the rest of the tank are corrected as well.

 

[29bonsaireef]

I've been using sunglasses for years now when taking photos with iPhone. I think the brown lens is a much more realistic look then the orange filter.

 

[bubbaque]

If you have software like Lightroom then you won’t need a filter but for phone pics it helps.

Here is a pic using the brown filter with 5 blue+, 2 coral +, 1 actinic and two actinic led strips.

 

[bubbaque]

Is that polyplab or someone else's filters bubba? Sorry if I missed it

It is in a pack of filters I bought for my dslr, so unfortunately they don’t clip to the phone. I just hold it in front of the camera or use a piece of tape when I did that video.

https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Compl...SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=dslr+camera+filters

 

[hart24601]

I found white balance works great for nice cameras, but for quick iPhone where you don’t want to mess with anything shots this is awesome!