Photo led colour help

Bone9

Bone9

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How can I get my photos to show the true colour of the leds in my setup?

I'm using a nikon d5000 and have photoshop.

Any advice would be great thanks.
 
In what way are they not showing correctly at the moment?

It could be a few things — exposure, white balance, in-camera image processing, colour profiles — it could even be your computer monitor set up incorrectly.

Can you post a picture of the current 'wrong' version and we might be able to work it out? :)
 
The colours seam lighter than in person. Deep blue looks like light blue. Red looks orange rather than red. It's most noticeable directly behind the led strip, the further from the led source the closer it gets to the real colour.


 
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It's the same if I take it on my note 4 or my slr. I've got a Dell monitor so the colour should be bang on.
 
It looks like the camera is metering for the whole scene and as such, the bright light of the LED is slightly overexposed.

It's a tricky one to get right because if you meter for the LED everything else will be under.

That second shot looks quite good even if the colour isn't 100% accurate.

You should be able to adjust it in Photoshop with a Hue/Saturation filter (you might need to mask it so the rest of the image isn't affected).
 
Thanks. The blue is with the light on and the red was in the dark.

I'll take some new shots at the weekend and have a play in photoshop. Thanks for your help buddy.
 
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