Taking Pictures

[Royal youngreef]

Looking for advice on best ways to take pictures of Zoas under blue light.

I need a few identifying and can’t seem to get the best picture.


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[Reefiez]

order some gel filters online, the orange/brown ones will filter out the blue light

[RCS82]

Turn the blues down and take your pics with your normal daytime lighting if you want a better chance of identifying your zoas.

[Optionman]

here are some shots using orange film gel:

[Jekerry]

For cell phones or iPads these sample can be picked up on amazon really cheap. Work great. Just hold the flim in front of the lens

[Royal youngreef]

here are some shots using orange film gel:



These are amazing shots!


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[RCS82]

Optionman those look amazing. I'm a real fan of corals under blue lights and really love seeing their amazing colors. Just thought for the purpose of identifying the blues could be turned down.

[HBtank]

You can use filters or modify the pictures if you want to keep the "black light poster" look of fluorescence, but most people really do not want to see that, even for IDs.... Like the ones above, it just looks fake (modified saturation etc..) and I would personally dismiss them as shopped etc.. even if they are not.

For a good accurate photo just take them under lower kelvin (~4K) "daylight" lighting, most light systems have a way to just have daylight spectrum showing.

[rjjr1963]

If you can take the picture in RAW format you can make it look however you want. Not all cameras can do that format.

[Royal youngreef]

Thanks guys really helped


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[Optionman]

Just to be clear I take those photos for my own enjoyment not to sell them.


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