diff --git a/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ColoredShapePipeline.java b/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ColoredShapePipeline.java
index a4645b68c..8b98b7cd0 100644
--- a/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ColoredShapePipeline.java
+++ b/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ColoredShapePipeline.java
@@ -221,8 +221,10 @@ public class ColoredShapePipeline
                 // If we grabbed it (in color copy mode), make a new Mat of it
                 rawInputMat = new Mat(inputMatPtr);
             } else {
-                // Otherwise, use a blank/empty mat as placeholder
-                rawInputMat = new Mat();
+                //                // Otherwise, use a blank/empty mat as placeholder
+                //                rawInputMat = new Mat();
+                // Otherwise, the input mat is frame we got from the camera
+                rawInputMat = frame.image.getMat();
             }
 
             // We can skip a few steps if the image is single channel because we've already done them on
diff --git a/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ReflectivePipeline.java b/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ReflectivePipeline.java
index f44cb69a9..5800c5a42 100644
--- a/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ReflectivePipeline.java
+++ b/photon-core/src/main/java/org/photonvision/vision/pipeline/ReflectivePipeline.java
@@ -164,8 +164,10 @@ public class ReflectivePipeline extends CVPipeline<CVPipelineResult, ReflectiveP
                 // If we grabbed it (in color copy mode), make a new Mat of it
                 rawInputMat = new Mat(inputMatPtr);
             } else {
-                // Otherwise, use a blank/empty mat as placeholder
-                rawInputMat = new Mat();
+                // Otherwise, the input mat is frame we got from the camera
+                rawInputMat = frame.image.getMat();
+                //                // Otherwise, use a blank/empty mat as placeholder
+                //                rawInputMat = new Mat();
             }
 
             // We can skip a few steps if the image is single channel because we've already done them on