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<p>You never mentioned what lights and cameras you are using now. What lights and cameras are you using now? Is this a still photography project, or video?</p> <p>Based on the description of your dilemma it sounds as though the surface of the water is acting as a mirror, you need to get the light source to come from under the surface to get a clearer picture. You could get underwater equipment, or you could build some sort of periscopic device that lets you keep your light source above water but directs the light below water using PVC pipe and a mirror or similar.</p> <p>Also keep in mind the possibility that the fish you are filming may be able to detect IR light.</p>

<p>Do you really want to trust $5,000 worth of gear to sit on top of a $75 dollar tripod setup?</p> <p>While I'm sure it will hold the camera up fine if you are careful about things, the tripod head and quick release looks pretty flimsy from the pictures of it. I would recommend getting something a bit more sturdy. </p>

<p>My evaluation of the V700 changes based on the film being scanned. I get decent results with negative film but slide film, while not unusable, leaves much to be desired. The V700 often gives an overly contrasty output lacking detail and sharpness with slight ghosting at times. I sent some slide film out for comparison on a Noritsu and it came back sharper with more detail in the shadows and highlights, no ghosting, and a flatter image output which I prefer. </p>

<p>Bernard, thank you for the input.<br> <br />I am scanning the full images, it is just that sometimes the smaller crops gives me a more desirable color balance, that is the point at which I am trying to lock the colors, then adjust the crop box to the full image. </p> <p>I've tried the 'Lock Image Color' box after Locking Exposure/Film base color and it looks like that is just the option I am looking for. Thank you very much.</p>

<p>Thank you for the suggestions. Switching from auto to manual unfortunately does not leave the settings where auto levels left off and when loading the saved options it wipes the preview clear so the preview must be reloaded which leaves me where I started. <br> A valiant effort, thanks again. </p>

<p>Good day.</p> <p>In Vuescan when I have the 'Color' tab set to 'auto levels' and I select the film area to be scanned the software sets the toning of the film to be scanned automatically, just like it should. I've noticed that if I crop in on an image with the marching ants selection tool, the auto levels will auto adjust and change the toning of the image based on the crop. At times I find that I prefer the toning of the crop but need to scan the entire image. I am curious if there is a way to lock the auto levels so I can readjust my crop as well as apply the same auto levels to other images. I've been unable to recreate the same toning with the manual settings.</p> <p>Thank you.</p>

<p>Look into film emulator plugins, such as VSCO, which you can use with photoshop, lightroom, or on your phone and get one click results, or search for film emulation tutorials for photoshop if you want to do it yourself. There are many different ways to achieve that type of look but much of it can be done using curves and levels on the individual RGB channels to get the color scheme you want as well as to get the contrast and faded look, then desaturate it to taste.</p>