So, how do you get rid of glare?

[Reefdude5]

Whenever I take pictures of my tank the rocks seem to glare(be bright white and many of the whiter corals, without a lot of color, like the meat coral, become white! I turn off ambient lights, no flash, and use the tank lights(2 96 watt 20000k actintics, 296 watt full spectrum daylights, and 2 175 watt 20000k halides) Any ideas? I tried messing with the speed, it didn't help a whole lot. It's digital by the way

[Casey]

Austin send a pm to Gumhead hes the photo gurro on here sounds like you need to adjust the whitebalance.

[Reefdude5]

The whata whata?

[MiddletonMark]

The white balance. Check your camera settings [could allow you to set this manually ... but more commonly affected by the various `light modes' so to speak [for cloudy, sunny, flourescent ... etc].

Try the same pic, with them all. I'm guessing the 20k bulbs are throwing the camera off, but that's just my hunch. But I'd just run the exact same pic in every various setting you can ... and record what each is ... so that you can then compare. Methinks that one of them might work `right' ... but if you can manually set the white balance ... probably best [I can on my Nikon, but I dunno about yours.]

Anyway, PM'ing Gumhead to check out this thread [so we all can learn!] is probably best.

But first ... what kind of camera [make/model]?

Knowing that would be most helpful.

[Reefdude5]

IIts a cannon ultrasonic digital, kool, sounds like gumheads the man!

[gumhead]

Sounds like it is simply over exposed. Try your exposure compensation at minus 1 or more.

[Reefdude5]

Howdo u do that! Hey, i just found a tripod a few minutes ago, cool!

[gumhead]

Do you have the manual? If you do look up exposure compensation.

[Reefdude5]

I found it, but you can only put it on 0, minus1 and plus1, and minus 2 and plus 2. I'm confused!

[gumhead]

try minus 1 or 2, see if that helps. What you will be doing is under exposing the picture by a "stop" or two. From what you were saying it sounds like your pics are over exposed. Even tho the pictures you posted look fine...

When I take pictures of the tank I usually use a manual setting. I take a reading from the camera on something of neutral tone, not dark or not light. I set the camera to that and take a picture and change up or down to get the correct exposure and snap away...

[Reefdude5]

On your camera can you choose -1, and +1 seperatly? Mine won't do that, i have to choose the positive and minus 1 or 2 at the same time? You think they didn't look over exposed? I mean, the tanks of the month, and your pics, and casey's pics, there isn't any white(except for the sand ), color is everywhere!

[gumhead]

This picture looks fine...



I dont see anything wrong with it. I dont see any "glare"...

[gumhead]

What model Cannon is your camera?

[Reefdude5]

It's an ultrasonic, does that make any sense? Or should it be a number?

[gumhead]

Ultrasonic is a trade mark cannon uses for there lenes. There should be a model number on the camera...