Turn your HPS lights off to take a picture...

It comes out clearer.

While you are here.
awhats the best lighting for capturing
the truest color.

Natural light

charface said:

While you are here.
awhats the best lighting for capturing
the truest color.

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65k wide spectrum fluoros

gotta love when people take the time to start a journal and all the pics are orange. not worth sharing such pictures

Its more the cameras fault than the light. Its the dynamic range the camera/sensor is picking up. So from the brightest bright to the darkest dark is very limited on most cameras. Even high quality DSLRs only have around 9 or 10. That along with RAW image processing (or lack of processing) helps change color temp in post as well as allow you to push and pull the lights and darks. Making it less contrasting and more even. Being able to fine tune the ISO (gain), shutter speed, and aperture also help dial in a nice medium range shot that can be played with in post. There are actually "LOGs" that are made to capture a very flat and neutral image off the sensor so in post you have even more room to work with it since less information is burned into the picture.

Any pictures taken on an iphone or cellphone, even shitty point and shoots will have a hard time dealing with the bright blown out tops of the buds/leaves while the dark lower branches will be basically black since the cameras going to auto adjust to bring down the highlights vs brighten up the darks.

If you have a decent DSLR you should be able to manually set a custom white balance on it.

Then you just take a blank white piece of paper and photograph it under HPS lights and use that image to set your white balance off of.

Interesting.
Thanks for that.
I hate the fact my room pics are always
screwey.

kaloconnection said:

If you have a decent DSLR you should be able to manually set a custom white balance on it.

Then you just take a blank white piece of paper and photograph it under HPS lights and use that image to set your white balance off of.

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I know i just prefer to take the pictures at a preset white balance then switch it in post with no loss to quality. Easier to dial in and with my old set up i used to have a CMH veg and a HPS flower. So i just take em all in a preset like "cloudy" or "sunny" and then go in my program i use for adjusting them and pick an exact color temp that looks the best.

Wish i could do anything about my LED lights though! Thats one ive been wantin to toy with. Gotta get some green filters and see if it helps at all. If not i might have to break down and grab some method sevens.

budbro18 said:

I know i just prefer to take the pictures at a preset white balance then switch it in post with no loss to quality. Easier to dial in and with my old set up i used to have a CMH veg and a HPS flower. So i just take em all in a preset like "cloudy" or "sunny" and then go in my program i use for adjusting them and pick an exact color temp that looks the best.

Wish i could do anything about my LED lights though! Thats one ive been wantin to toy with. Gotta get some green filters and see if it helps at all. If not i might have to break down and grab some method sevens.

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What, I meant was you can manually set a custom white-balance in-camera so you dont have to mess with it in post processing. Most cameras have that function these days, but it might take some googling to figure out how to make it work on yours.

I knew what ya meant haha. I always do somethin in post so ive stopped doing that. Usually adjust contrast so you can see more. I used to have an HTG supply sticker on my reflectors and id use that to white balance but i would usually have to slightly adjust it even after that. Its nice not having that info burned into the file/picture.