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| Underwater Video & Photography: Discuss RAW - vs - red filter & white balance in the General Diving Forums forums: Expert opinion sought - I normally shoot in RAW & then set white etc. in photoshop. Is using a red ... |
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| I do the same as you currently do and it works for me. |
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Filters, of any type, remove ambient light and particularly if you're not shooting with a strobe that is critical.
__________________ Cheers, Christian There is nothing more certain in life than taxes, decompression theory and death - CG |
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As it says your location is Tenerife then you will probably have enough ambient light to use a filter; Magic Filters are cheap and seem to produce good results. If you were in the UK I would echo Christian's comments. Filters do have their place, but as with anything in underwater photography they aren't the answer all of the time. Rob
__________________ East Midlands Underwater Photographers www.emup.org.uk www.robcuss.co.uk Camera kit: Nikon D80 in Ikelite housing, Tokina 10-17mm, Sigma 50mm, Sigma 105mm, twin Ikelite DS-125 strobes |
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| Raw and photoshop for me. Not owning a strobe all my photography is ambient light and in the UK that means not a lot. The last thing i need is a filter further reducing that forcing me to further decrease shutter speed and so on.
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| i havent got strobes. use alot of wb cal when in the tropics. i find most picts need no adjustment +save alot of time. but shooting in raw will give superior results? if any adjustments are reqd |
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| Give it a try and see. You don't need a proper underwater red filter for a quick experiment, any transparent red item will do, Quality Street used to have a very nice deep red sweet wrapper that was ideal. If it looks like there are benefits, get the proper filter. |
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| I subscribe to the theory that you get as much right as possible in the camera therefore I set the white balance manually underwater and shoot in raw. I get to tweak the white balance on the computer later if necessary. As said before: filters remove light not change the colour. Using them will mean you have less light to play with giving longer exposures etc. Personally I never bother with them.
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I shoot RAW with auto white balance and CS3 - that means you can concentrate on taking shots rather than messing with too may settings. Regarding the red filter - if you are using RAW I see no benefit at all and as others have said it will just cut light out. Cheers, Graham |
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