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Brown lens filters are great!

Ive been wanting to take pics of my tank for quite a while now so I searched for good lens filters. Pretty much all of them are yellow or orange, but i dont like how those pics come out.
I ended up buying a 55mm brown filter lens. I havent bought a macro lens for my dslr yet so these photos were taken with my phone. Honestly, i think the brown lens does a much better job at portraying accurate colors compared to orange/yellow lenses.

Photos of my maroon clown were taken with actinic+whites. The rest were actinic only and actinic+whites.
 

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What are your a/b/c/d conditions for your pics?

Brown is basically dark orange on the color wheel. The complimentary color (the color it is compensating for in a filter) is therefore a shade of blue. So it isn’t surprising to me that you are getting good results, it’s basically just a variant of an orange filter but making everything a bit darker, which electronic cameras have no problem compensating for.
 
No conditions, I just like naming any photos this way so I know which photos belong together.

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No conditions, I just like naming any photos this way so I know which photos belong together.

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Sorry when I said conditions, I meant what types of filters or lack thereof for each pic. So we can see the differences you are showing us.
 
Sorry when I said conditions, I meant what types of filters or lack thereof for each pic. So we can see the differences you are showing us.
A: actinic, no lens
B: actinic w/lens
C: actinic+whites, no lens
D: actinic+white w/lens



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