Cool conversation. I always like to hear photography tips. She’s a lucky girl. Great job. Haha.

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

I could talk photo all day

Excellent More Becka 😎

The blue spectrum is the biggest hurdle to overcome in my opinion.

I find taking a shot of the tank once you figure out your aperture, ISO and such and then using that photo as a custom white balance photo and then your color will be spot on every time.

Clarity is basically the "local contrast" that usually affects the structure of the midtones and enhance texture allowing it to appear sharper/more pop. Where regular contrast is more "global".

9:14 - Than you make me feel old. I used to roll up my own film canisters back then. Higher ISO more grain, same with digital photography. The denoise tools we have today like Topaz are insane

Tidal Gardens has the best video work in the whole hobby in my opinion, you guys make a great team. One of the few accounts which really replicate what it feels like to look at coral live.

@tidalgardens

Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

THANKS THAN! You mentioned this to me on the last live stream. Going to watch it now. Photog/videographer over 35 years and I struggle to shoot under Actinic lighting. Cant wait to hear what Becka says!

Perfect topic, perfect vid and super interesting.

Haven't gone into the deep end on photography yet but I do color science and management all day for image quality. Such a difference way of looking at things.

With film, we used to over expose and under develop to build contrast zones for the shadows and under expose and over develop to build contrast in the highlight zones to create those Ansel Adams grey step zones for BW and Color. Shutter opening and speed today, digitally, is automatic and mostly manipulated for sharp or blurred image outcomes, light consumption, and depth of focus field. Becka’s photography is the best for the most part on all these aquaria media videos. Nice work.

Using pro mode on cell phones is a big thing I always crank up white balance and adjust shutter speed and iso with manual focus gotten great picture

@markovichglass

2 ай бұрын

Higher f stop, lower iso. Problems with this, you have to be super steady.

Thanks!

My secret for good photos was a filter, but not the typical orange. Using a yellow filter was a gamechanger. Enough of a filter that it removed most of the blue, but not enough to mess with colour. I was happy with the results.

@northeastcorals

28 күн бұрын

Best results I've had to date (filter wise) are with brown filters.

Dang, where did I put that Kessil? :) this is great, thank you very much

Hermosa Hermoso trabajo..

3:00 - You cant beat physics. My Sony A7R4 has 61 Mega Pixel sensor. Very close to my iphone, however my sensor on my A7R4 is over 2 inches across whereas the one in my phone is .2mm. No magical editing is going to make up for lack of depth of field and light sensitivity.

ALSO, Processing occurs with formatting. People aren't saving and uploading very large .RAW files and the commonly used jpeg is one of the lowest quality of formats, and even it has levels and degrees of quality.. of which most people are using whatever settings the camera has preset for saving it as jpeg. Good points and good content as usual Than.

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

RAW files are actually invisible. The program you are opening it up in has to have a RAW processor for that specific camera and file type. Some brand new cameras' RAW files sometimes can't be edited in Lightroom because it takes Adobe or whomever a little while to implement RAW support for that camera.

This should be great, will finish tomorrow. Thx!

Great topic and video

if i recall my photog days 15 years ago, a sensor is the camera mechanism that collects the light in a photo. so every new tech camera relies on capturing light from a picture. resolution is the data collected from that sensor… i may be wrong 😂

17:00 Becka my A7R4 goes to 32,000 ISO without a sweat. Extended iso (I would never shoot there ) is 105,000!

Anymore coral spotlights in the future. I need my fix😅

Should just have one of those white right angle rulers near the coral for your live sales

I had no clue i was color blind till i joined the army and failed the test. Its brown purple

7:00 - I do LOL. Although covid killed my photo studio I still have probably 10 lights in my studio not being used. I have a snoot I wonder if that would be good to pop off, Ill give it a try

Becca has grown and matured a lot over the years.

14:47 I have 2 A7R4s, and around 15 lenses and I have it insured for $40k. You are absolutely right Than

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

Lately I am blown away by the amount of tripods, ball heads, fluid heads, and arca swiss plates we have here in the studio. I bet we are well into the five figures in just Really Right Stuff gear.

@geekdomo

2 ай бұрын

@@tidalgardens It adds up SO FAST. I am not even mentioning all those doodads. After a number of years you just get "stuff". Also with photography as in reefing there is a bad case of G.A.S. Gear Acquisition Syndrome ;) Thanks for the video. Sorry I spammed so much chat.

I ditched my Canon DSLR for a full frame Sony because of the improved noise performance. I still can't get good tank photos, although partly that is due to my bowfront tank (why did I do that?! 🤔)

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

oof. bowfront is photography death

Regarding the blue, could you not temporarily change your tank lighting spectrum to be less blue?

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

you can. It is a bit of a tradeoff in light intensity when half the LEDs are blue LEDs so now you have exposure issues. Also you lose all fluorescence so what makes many corals appealing will be lost when there is even a little bit of daylight-colored light.

@JeffSmithbureau13

2 ай бұрын

Oh that's a good point about the florescence. Yeah, not really ideal to lose that.

Wouldn't you get better pics with an underwater cam? Not tried this myself but I would think it would be the best for quality. Agree on the filters, tried it don't like. Maybe put an object next to the coral (like a coin) to show size on website?

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

A good underwater camera will not fit into most aquariums.

What model camera do you shoot most of your stuff on?

@tidalgardens

2 ай бұрын

The three cameras we use the most are the Canon C200, Canon C70, and Canon R5C. The first two are video only, the R5C can shoot stills and replaced the Canon 5Ds R in the work flow, but we keep that camera around as a backup.

Her eyes are mesmerizing.

@Dan-tb1zf

Ай бұрын

Stop being weird

@northeastcorals

28 күн бұрын

@@Dan-tb1zf Indeed.