Lack of White Balance Control

[limeyx]

I just downloaded and looked at your Catalina video. It seems quite green shifted. Based on my recollection of SoCal water conditions (haven't dove there in a while) I think that the GR filter might be a better choice than the CY(red) filter in that area. I use the CY filter in sunny, blue Caribbean water like in the Bahamas. We recently were in San Carlos where the water was more green and murky and I had a similar green shift like your video. I probably should've shot w/o the filter.

You might contact H2OPhotopros and see what they recommend. They're in Dana Point and shoot locally.

UR/Pro says the CY filter is: The GR filter is:
All about it here: http://www.urprofilters.com/content.do?region=FilterInstructions

Interesting. Will definitely check it out.
The vid I posted the link to in this thread had *no* filter and AWB (I was just testing to see how the camera held up in different modes etc.)

 

[bluesbro1982]

Then maybe my color-correcting skills suck! I have had a hard time 'adding back' red to stuff I have shot without the red filter on. However, most of my editing "pre HD" was with iMovie.

I have moved to Final Cut Express for HD but still a novice.

Maybe you can give us some tips on how to add some of the colors back in.
Say for fixing up footage something like this:

http://nickambrose.com/diving/movies/catalina-11-4-2006-ship-rock-cdrom.mov

Heh. yeah, grandpa garibaldi at the bottom looks sorta orangey, but that is definitely a candidate for color correction.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/cc_legal_fcp4.html

has some good color correction theory information.

I'd probably use rgb balance and adjust the saturation of green and blue down a touch in the mids / highs, and in reds just crank it up on all levels until the scope was a touch more equal in levels, but I'd need to throw the original DV footage into a vectorscope as well to really see what else could benefit. Black levels are probably messed up, and I'm wondering if the camera is also putting some kind of gain on it.

With this shot id also like to move the whole hue angle about 40 degrees just to see what kind of an effect it had on the coloration, more to be artistic than to correct. I like playing around with stuff like that...

good shooting overall, though. I love fish pictures

speck's filter link is the bomb. i should have thought to suggest that. good on 'ya!

 

[limeyx]

Heh. yeah, grandpa garibaldi at the bottom looks sorta orangey, but that is definitely a candidate for color correction.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/cc_legal_fcp4.html

has some good color correction theory information.

I'd probably use rgb balance and adjust the saturation of green and blue down a touch in the mids / highs, and in reds just crank it up on all levels until the scope was a touch more equal in levels, but I'd need to throw the original DV footage into a vectorscope as well to really see what else could benefit. Black levels are probably messed up, and I'm wondering if the camera is also putting some kind of gain on it.

With this shot id also like to move the whole hue angle about 40 degrees just to see what kind of an effect it had on the coloration, more to be artistic than to correct. I like playing around with stuff like that...

good shooting overall, though. I love fish pictures

speck's filter link is the bomb. i should have thought to suggest that. good on 'ya!

Thanks for the link. I will definitely play with it.
generally I havent been playing with color correct too much (partly because I used iMovie for a long time, but partly because the movies were just for me and my friends).

However, when you start trying to make stuff for "strangers" to see/potentially purchase, I think a lot of things start to change, video quality being one obvious one.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the fish were great -- ship rock is great for huge schools of them when the current is running. The fish love it. Seen similar scenes there most times I've dived it now.