Photography Tips for Photographing Purple flowering buds!

[Smoke em if you got em]

Just wanted to pop in and share the interesting photographic lighting information I discovered while trying to get good pics of my buds.I was trying to find the best lighting and was alternating between different sources when I noticed that cool white LED light really brings out the natural purples in the plants while natural sunlight mutes the purples and makes them appear more gray or brown to the human eye. If you are attempting to bring out those vivd purples, blues play around with using some cool white LED's mixed with natural sun or other photographic lighting and you'll get a very natural and authentic photo that portrays your flowers in a colorful, natural way without having to bump levels or settings digitally and artificially.

 

[nekvt]

The difference is the white balance settings on your camera. What works for you may or may not work for others depending on their cameras white balance settings.

 

[Badfinger]

I always just dim my light to around 20% to take pics, this brings the white light to dominance in my case.
Below are two pics, the none yellow pic is at 20%, the other is at 80% light setting, which is my normal grow setting.

 

[Cannaficionado]

I feel ya here, its hard to get that purple to come through with a grow light on. Try turning down your light to its lowest dimming setting. It helps me

 

[Cannaficionado]

I feel ya here, its hard to get that purple to come through with a grow light on. Try turning down your light to its lowest dimming setting. It helps me

Also I forgot to mention if you are using a phone dont use camera flash unless its real low light. Image stabilization isnt so great in combination with flash. Also flash can get reflected off pistils and trichomes and drown out any color.

 

[Kilbarrog]

Fastberry Auto, Day 33

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

The best light for most cameras and phones is 5000K (daylight). You can still purchase 100w CFL bulbs in the 5000k color and it only takes one in most grow spaces to illuminate the plants for photography. This will reproduce the colors as close to the natural colors the human eye sees.

 

[Kilbarrog]

Thought I'd post this purple update....