sony p9 digital pics

hiya folks
help needed!!!!!
i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.im using the camera with a
ys25dx strobe, but it just aint making any difference.ive put all the camera
settings to auto and that doesn't seem to help either.
ANY help would be appreciated.
cheers again

In message <bqgfeh$vpg$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, The Diver
<adrian@the-diver.rollocks.co.uk> writes
>hiya folks
>help needed!!!!!
>i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
>camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.im using the camera with a
>ys25dx strobe, but it just aint making any difference.ive put all the camera
>settings to auto and that doesn't seem to help either.
>ANY help would be appreciated.
>cheers again
>
I take it "you should get out more", wasn't the kind of advice you were
looking for?
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David Pearson

"The Diver" <adrian@the-diver.rollocks.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bqgfeh$vpg$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> hiya folks
> help needed!!!!!
> i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
> camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.im using the camera with a
> ys25dx strobe, but it just aint making any difference.ive put all the
camera
> settings to auto and that doesn't seem to help either.
> ANY help would be appreciated.
> cheers again
>
>

can we see a sample of what you are producing?

The Diver wrote:
> i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
> camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.

what's the colour of your pools bottom?
not red, isn't it?

sorry, joking
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:30:41 -0000, dixit "The Diver"
<adrian@the-diver.rollocks.co.uk>:

>i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
>camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.im using the camera with a
>ys25dx strobe, but it just aint making any difference.ive put all the camera
>settings to auto and that doesn't seem to help either.
>ANY help would be appreciated.

White Balance: fiddle with.

I won't ask why you're taking pictures in the pool...

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The Diver wrote:

> hiya folks
> help needed!!!!!
> i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
> camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.im using the camera with a
> ys25dx strobe, but it just aint making any difference.ive put all the camera
> settings to auto and that doesn't seem to help either.
> ANY help would be appreciated.
> cheers again
>
>

Do you get the red imbalance if you don't use strobe? Perhaps you could
take some pictures at short range (so you can get a good photograph
without flash too) of a test picture (suitably waterproofed!) or a test
object both with and without the strobe. That should help decide whether
it's the strobe that is the cause or whether it's some other factor. You
can try that above and below water too so you can determine whether it's
the environment that's the problem. For instance, some swimming pool
buildings have lighting that might give this effect.

I'm assuming here that your camera and any software you are using is not
trying to do any colour correction for underwater pictures. If it were
doing so it would typically be trying to add red into the picture as
this is the colour that is lost most quickly as depth increases. In a
shallow pool, and especially with a good flash providing a balanced
light source this correction wouldn't be necessary and applying it might
add too much red.

Hope this helps
Simon

"ferret" <ferret@cruelmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:30:41 -0000, dixit "The Diver"
> <adrian@the-diver.rollocks.co.uk>:
>
> >i take alot of pictures in the local swimming pool and i find that the
> >camera is picking up alot of red in the picture.im using the camera with
a
> >ys25dx strobe, but it just aint making any difference.ive put all the
camera
> >settings to auto and that doesn't seem to help either.
> >ANY help would be appreciated.
>
> White Balance: fiddle with.
>
> I won't ask why you're taking pictures in the pool...
>
> --

It might be a nudist club swimming pool.. Through then I would have to
wonder how he got a camera past security....

rhys

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:24:58 +1300, dixit "rnf2"
<rnf2@NOSPAMwaikato.ac.nz>:

>It might be a nudist club swimming pool.. Through then I would have to
>wonder how he got a camera past security....

Even more reason to ask why...

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He restores my soul" - Ps 23:2
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"ferret" <ferret@cruelmail.com> wrote
>
> >It might be a nudist club swimming pool.. Through then I would have to
> >wonder how he got a camera past security....
>
> Even more reason to ask why...
>
> --
> ferret

It would at least explain the redness... all those sunburnt legs flailing
around the pool.

rhys

rnf2 wrote:
> "ferret" <ferret@cruelmail.com> wrote
>
>>>It might be a nudist club swimming pool.. Through then I would have to
>>>wonder how he got a camera past security....
>>
>>Even more reason to ask why...
>>
>>--
>>ferret
>
>
> It would at least explain the redness... all those sunburnt legs flailing
> around the pool.

sunburnt... in the uk... in December?

mmmmmmmmm

Ben



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