How to take good pictures under blue+white led?
- Thread starter dadat1968
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- Glendale,Queens.
No matter what you do the blue led's will interfere with the whites,if you had full spectrum of colored led's the pictures come out perfect
The problem with LED's is that their spectrum is not as "spread" as other kind of lights. It is basically "discrete".
And as camera sensors are also discrete (2 green dots for one blue and one red, to mimic the fact that our eyes see more green), that can lead to nasty results. Especially considering that the light measurement is made on the "overall scene" the blues will get blown (aka 100%, no more details) which can sometimes even lead to artifacts (like all-white no-detail zones, it depends on your camera)
I have this problem a lot when shooting concerts because of the red+blue lights.
In fact the best way to take pictures of a tank with LED lights would probably be... using film.
And as camera sensors are also discrete (2 green dots for one blue and one red, to mimic the fact that our eyes see more green), that can lead to nasty results. Especially considering that the light measurement is made on the "overall scene" the blues will get blown (aka 100%, no more details) which can sometimes even lead to artifacts (like all-white no-detail zones, it depends on your camera)
I have this problem a lot when shooting concerts because of the red+blue lights.
In fact the best way to take pictures of a tank with LED lights would probably be... using film.
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- Staten Island, Brooklyn
You have to shoot RAW and adjust the white balance afterwards
White balance is not enough when you are dealing with censor artifacts.
This is a crop of a picture I took which shows such an issue. The light was typical red+blue LED (the result is a pink that makes "skins look good").
You can see that the top of the head is so overblown with blue that it became... pure white (255,255,255 RGB). Note that is censor dependent. In that case, that was a Fuji X100.
When I take pictures of my tank with it (it is my backup camera, but it is fast to set up), I can see artifacts like that on the "cretes" of some of my corals due to the Royal blue Crees that I use to supplement my Radium bulb.
This is a crop of a picture I took which shows such an issue. The light was typical red+blue LED (the result is a pink that makes "skins look good").
You can see that the top of the head is so overblown with blue that it became... pure white (255,255,255 RGB). Note that is censor dependent. In that case, that was a Fuji X100.
When I take pictures of my tank with it (it is my backup camera, but it is fast to set up), I can see artifacts like that on the "cretes" of some of my corals due to the Royal blue Crees that I use to supplement my Radium bulb.
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- smithtown, long island
you have the set the white balance on your camera.. It takes a bit of practice to shoot under leds, but mine have been coming out pretty nice now
- Location
- smithtown, long island
I'm not too sure..I know there are some vids for setting the wn on YouTube.. I'm def not the best at explaining.. There are a couple members on here that are great at it though..
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