iPhone 16 pro photography hints/trick for reef tank

[SteveDola]

I bought a new phone. My last phone I was able to learn over time the tricks to getting decent photos. Has anyone played with the iPhone 16 pro for reef photography? I'm not sure what settings are best. I think I'm shooting in RAW which isn't best for online unless I process the pictures which I'm not really interested in performing. If you have a video or a guide you've used...could you share it?

 

[Chris.Reef]

I bought a new phone. My last phone I was able to learn over time the tricks to getting decent photos. Has anyone played with the iPhone 16 pro for reef photography? I'm not sure what settings are best. I think I'm shooting in RAW which isn't best for online unless I process the pictures which I'm not really interested in performing. If you have a video or a guide you've used...could you share it?

If you shoot raw you will want a editor such as lightroom for post processing. For quick photos i turn on the white lights and take the photos using default camera settings.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

I bought a new phone. My last phone I was able to learn over time the tricks to getting decent photos. Has anyone played with the iPhone 16 pro for reef photography? I'm not sure what settings are best. I think I'm shooting in RAW which isn't best for online unless I process the pictures which I'm not really interested in performing. If you have a video or a guide you've used...could you share it?

Have a look here:

Thread 'Photographing Your Reef Tank with Your Phone, Gel Filters and an App'

Jul 5, 2019

Here's a great video I've found to extremely useful on Youtube. Enjoy, I've learned a couple of things with this one. Disregard the Mantis Coral Lens and just use the Polyp Lab Lens.

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• BiGGiePauls33
• Replies: 4
• Forum: Photography

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[BiGGiePauls33]

Download Snapseed and play around, it's amazing

 

[MarkSzy]

I bought a set of lens off Amazon for fairly cheap and they do help a lot. Not perfect but the photos are much better

 

[Chris.Reef]

If you want to use a filter I would recommend this for the iphone. https://a.co/d/8Z2GLWs

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

If you want to use a filter I would recommend this for the iphone. https://a.co/d/8Z2GLWs

Same one I use on the Google Pixel 8 Pro.

 

[SteveDola]

Download Snapseed and play around, it's amazing

Have you used lightroom ?

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Have you used lightroom ?

I have a full CS6 suite but don't ever really use it much. I have used RAWtherapee, similar to Lightroom and free use on PC in the he past, but mainly use the pixel 8 pro, adjust white balance through the phone to mimic what my eyes actually see and then maybe adjust some things in Snapseed. More often than not I don't even use the orphek lens kit listed above, but if I do, I stack the 15k, 20k and cpl filters.

 

[afboundguy]

I bought a new Pixel 9 Pro and noticed it doesn't take as good of pictures of the tank as my old LG V60 even with the lense kit I have always used. Seems to be WAAAAYYYY more blue regardless of what settings I used. Pictures are way crisper just bluer

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Dave turn the white balance up, it works almost just as well without the blue light filter

 

[afboundguy]

I will have to try that thanks @BiGGiePauls33

 

[SteveDola]

I watched the video Paul. Helpful with the lenses (which I have). I found a couple videos on YT going over the new settings for iphone16s camera. Hoping to find time and take some pictures this weekend. ty

 

[nickeg79]

Aquarium cam app is cheap and easy check it out

 

[ChrisV]

Aquarium cam app is cheap and easy check it out

I was shocked by how well this app worked for me.