Taking Pics Under LEDs

[jsuter]

I was curious how others might take pictures under their LED lit tanks. I know from personal experience, at least with my camera, it can be a little tricky to get accurate colors. For example, I have yet been able to get a picture of my branching hammer and show its colors accurately. Yet I can get pictures of my fish no problem.

I have experimented with manually setting the white balance, and many many different AUTO modes, but have yet to find a setting that gives me consistent results.

This can all be subjective to the camera also, I don't have a DSLR, just a nice point and shoot with some manual functions.

[marinelife]

Most of the time you have to use photoshop or other program to adjust the colors. The camera does not like the blue leds

[jsuter]

I have an old version of Photoshop laying around somewhere. Do you know of any other, less cost prohibitive programs? :pirate:

[UDGrad2010]

Two of my favorites are GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)and Paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net/)

They both have plenty of features for the beginner and advanced photographer. Nothing is a replacement for a quality camera and good shooting technique, but I am no professional so I need all the help I can get as well.

[ghurlag]

+1 on GIMP and Paint.net. GIMP is like photoshop, but a little less user-friendly. It's EXTREMELY powerful once you learn how to use it though. And there are lots of little tutorials here and there.

Oh, and Jason, step 1 is to make sure the lens cap isn't on, and step 2 is to make sure your finger isn't in front of the lens :D