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Mattl22

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Looking for someone to take pics of my tank for me and help me post them on here!
I have a nice size pice of hycanth birds nest that I can give you plus a few $ for taking the trip too my place ! Was thinking like $30
Pm if u can help me out
Thanks and maybe u can show me how to take a pic with my digital camera vie tried messing around with it and it just looks like a blue glass box
 

thirty5

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Looking for someone to take pics of my tank for me and help me post them on here!
I have a nice size pice of hycanth birds nest that I can give you plus a few $ for taking the trip too my place ! Was thinking like $30
Pm if u can help me out
Thanks and maybe u can show me how to take a pic with my digital camera vie tried messing around with it and it just looks like a blue glass box

What kind of camera are you using?
What kind of Lights are you trying to photo under?

You are probably trying to shoot in "AUTO" mode. When you shoot in Auto the camera gets tricked sometimes. The blue is caused by "Auto White Balance" The lighting throws off the camera and it cannot distinguish between the colors, since you don't have any "white" in the pic. Even if you do it will look blue from the lights, so the camera can not properly adjust.

You will see this especially taking a pic with a camera phone under Blues.

I am still fine tuning my photography of my tank. I take pretty good standard photography, but corals are not that easy.

I shoot with a Canon 50d dSLR. What I found is that you need to learn to shoot on Manual, this will give you much better fine tuning for the best pics possible. I am now shooting in the "k" mode for white balance vs. "Auto". My camera will only go up to 10k in value (same value as lights). This will help the camera to know what is white and what is not and will adjust accordingly.

Also shooting in "RAW" vs "JPG" is a great way since a RAW photo is what the camera sees. Any camera that shoots a photo actually converts what the camera sees into what the camera thinks should be seen and creating a JPG from it. A raw photo is large sometimes 4 times the size of the jpg. So a 6MB jpg may have a 24MB raw photo.

I can talk all day :) I know you are looking for someone to actually show you, but figured I would try to explain a bit!
 

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