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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 360007, member: 13650&quot;]Pics look great!&nbsp; What kind of camera did you get?&nbsp; I use a Canon S3 and have a few different lenses and filters for it.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; You may already know but a major aspect I learned last year is setting a custom white balance so the picture represents true color.&nbsp; You can use a white sheet of paper or anything that&#039;s bright white.&nbsp; The camera never knows what true white is unless you tell it, so I set my custom white balance almost every time, depending on what the shot&#039;s for.&nbsp; It sounds complicated but once you learn how to do it, it&#039;s really easy.&nbsp; Go to custom WB, point the camera at a white sheet of paper and press set or ok.&nbsp; Now the camera knows that is pure white under that lighting.&nbsp; Obviously you&#039;ll need to re-do it if you change locations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;ve taken a lot of shots of my reef tank which has strong, flourescent lighting with actinics which really screws up colors when you take a picture.&nbsp; You can set a custom white balance under pure blue actinic and every shot there after will give you true color representation instead of being washed out with blue.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Aside from that, having enough light is always a major part of it.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have one but I learned at a seminar that every camera should have a slave flash because no camera has an adequate flash.&nbsp; I like to use natural day light as much as possible.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your pics turned out good.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nice coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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