Washed out & Glowing

[Halley]

I know this should technically be in the photography section, but I like complements as well!

But, I was curious does this tang looked washed out in the pic. I also think it looks like it is glowing. Any opinions are appreciated.

Thanks, Nick

 

[jmlslayer]

OMG its glowing Nick finally your pics look great

 

[cj.thomas21]

Im not that good yet with taking pictures but it looks like it is a lighting uses. But you can still tell the get is good looking.

 

[Nigel4less]

Looks better, but still looks someone through a pile of Dust on top of it.

 

[adhdkarate]

just a suggestion but you might try using either a white cloth or at least putting a white card in for one frame to get an accurate white balance. the light reflecting off the surface even appears a little bit yellow. other than that, it doesn't appear washed out at all.

 

[Halley]

Looks better, but still looks someone through a pile of Dust on top of it.

I don’t think I understand what you mean, can you elaborate on this comment?

 

[Nigel4less]

I don’t think I understand what you mean, can you elaborate on this comment?

It looks like the Picture is Washed out. And almost looks like it has a Grey Haze over it.

 

[fallen_angel]

just a suggestion but you might try using either a white cloth or at least putting a white card in for one frame to get an accurate white balance. the light reflecting off the surface even appears a little bit yellow. other than that, it doesn't appear washed out at all.

I have noticed Nick that your pictures do have a yellow overcast to them.

At any rate, that's one very gorgeous gecko!

 

[Halley]

Yeah, I actually went to a camera shop today. I guess I had my camera on a setting that turned them orange, so he turned it off the setting for me. The pics look better, but this gecko is pretty yellow. For some reason though, either he looks more yellow than he suppose to, or he gets really washed out in pictures.

 

[Halley]

Okay I took some more pics, with geckos of different contrast and colors. Here they are:

Mack Tremper Enigma

Enigma, het Tremper

Tremper Blazing Blizzard

Jungle Bell

Reverse Strip Tremper

Tremper Enigma

Bell Albino

Also, does anybody else have this problem, with pics looking WAY better on their camera, than they do on the computer?

These pictures don't really do the geckos justice.

Nick

 

[fallen_angel]

The lighting still doesnt look right to me..? It still seems like it's bringing out the yellow too much. I just kind of mess with the lighting settings until the colors look right. Pictures don't usually bring out the true color in geckos, but there should be a setting that will bring them out better. Are you using a flash? Maybe it's the background or the room lighting? I am not sure.

 

[Halley]

No Flash.

But I think I’ll just make a few trips to the photography store tomorrow, and see what quality I get then.

 

[hoppslover]

I would have to agree with Jess. Especially with the pic of the BB.

 

[paulnj]

Nick , are you shooting those on a blueish back ground? Your camera is reading the light as natural(5600k), though you are lighting them with indoor lighting(3200k). The images have the amber hue from the white balance being off.

 

[paulnj]

PM me with camera model and lighting setup and I will do my best to get you the proper white balance on your images.

 

[Spooki]

definitely looks like a lighting issue, i always touch up in photoshop because i have terrible lighting in my apartment.

i hope you don't mind, but i did a quick retouch just to show the difference it can make.

if you don't have/ can't afford photoshop or photoshop elements the gimp is an excellent free alternative.

beautiful gecko, by the way. i love the orange coloration so much.

 

[paulnj]

rough edit....... set white point, changed the hue -10 points, crop to 4x6 format, sharpen save. Is it close, because it appears your have a few lighting/ Whitebalance issues if the background isn't blue.

 

[Halley]

Well, they’re getting better! The background looks like a really nice blue on my camera, but almost has the blue shish grey look on my monitor. Not sure if it’s my monitor or not. Do the pics look better to everybody else?

 

[paulnj]

turning on the flash will correct the color cast you are still getting. Indoor lighting is tough without flash on a compact digital.

Definately better though.

Might I suggest a different color background and maybe your camera will do better at setting the white balance with that? White BG(background) is simple to color correct

 

[tangerineman]

pics

i have a canon, and if i don't use the proper lighting selection it looks way more yellow than is correct,
the indoor lighting setting even looks yellow,

really the only time i get natural looking colors is in daylight which is limiting, esp since i have 2 jobs
...but i don't have the space for a light box even if i had the proper lights for it, anyway.

flashes work well, and make the colors pop, but since i never view my geckos with flash lighting on, i don't consider this natural, or realistic.
(colors do blow out though, nicely)

maybe you should try different settings in conjunctuion with adjusting the brightness, a lighter midtone background may help, or a whter background as the previous poster mentioned...