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flowerhorns4me

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Hi Everyone

I am a retired sports photographer. (retired due to severe back injury). I hope to learn from everyone here and become a better aquatic photographer. I use a Nikon D-100 camera, which I am still learning to use. I have been using a 35mm camera until recently. How do you all get that life like colors in your photographs? Is it in the camera or the editing? See, I got so much to learn from the many experts on this wonderful forum.

Thanks,
Rick

PS... Anyone else here on the forum from Hawaii? I'm in Hilo.
 
hi Rick, I live just across the pond over on Oahu :) welcome to APF, we're glad to have you. sorry to hear about your back injury. as for color in aquatic photos, I'm the wrong person to ask. many people say my colors are earthy or something like that. anyways, enjoy the forums.
 
Welcome to APF, I'm sorry to hear about your back.

About the colours, I usually shoot in RAW which requires some post editing. So I up the contrast and some saturation to get more lively colours.

If you shoot in JPEG the camera does a little prossesing before it's stored. Contrast, saturation and sharpness. If you enter your menus there's probably some options to enchance/dechance the colours to make them more vivid or dull.

Hope this helps a little, but it doesn't hurt to shoot in RAW and edit the photos for your liking.
 
also, after reading Alexanders thread and seeing the result he's gotten from having his monitor calibrated - i think that's a very good thing to have to show good colors. i think that's what i need!
 
hey Rick, I wonder how you found this forum :) :) (j/k, I know how you did, btw, Marc Munez and a few others are members too)

The colors come from a proper setup. Many here with DSLRs use overhead flash for aquatic photography, look through the articles section there are many setup articles. You get very close true to life colors on fish when you use overhead flash.

Hiro is correct on Monitor calibration, bcause most monitors are NOT properly calibrated. The photo may look right on the camera, but with a monitor that has wrong colors, it will always be off. Using tools like SPYDER or a few others will really help. Some Camera shops will rent them, but most sell them.

Just listen to what the other members are saying, the ones that you see getting great results and listen to their advice. That is all there is to it.
 
Welcome aboard Rick. I guess my jealousy is going to twofold now that we have another member residing in the real paradise. Oh and BTW, your neighbor across the pond is being modest about his coloring of his "earthy" pix. If you notice below his avatar he has won a photo contest for three straight months. hir0 is one of the best photographers and advice team members on this forum. Maybe I could get better if I moved to Hawaii... :rolleyes: :lol:
 
Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. I have so much to learn.
 
Obliviou$ said:
Welcome to APF, I'm sorry to hear about your back.

About the colours, I usually shoot in RAW which requires some post editing. So I up the contrast and some saturation to get more lively colours.

If you shoot in JPEG the camera does a little prossesing before it's stored. Contrast, saturation and sharpness. If you enter your menus there's probably some options to enchance/dechance the colours to make them more vivid or dull.

Hope this helps a little, but it doesn't hurt to shoot in RAW and edit the photos for your liking.
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Thanks for the information. I'll try to see if my camera has the features to shoot in the RAW format.
 
Welcome Rick, good to have you!

The D100 should do you well in all this, I use one on occasion

And you could enter some of your personal sports shots in the General POTM ;)

See you around,
Tony
 
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