Opinions on this merten's photo

[Winwood]

I posted this on an earlier thread that got shut down because I didn't realize I was breaking the rules. Mainly, I was looking for opinions on the photo. I really don't know much about photoshop or any of the other programs used to alter photos. Therefore, I invite all sorts of opinions on this photo.

 

[OrionN]

I am interested too. Here is a better picture of this guy. I did not think that he was Photoshop but I do not know much about it other than the automated functions

 

[taylor t]

I'm interested to hear other opinions as well. Here's mine. Pretty anemone regardless. What I can say about mine, is, that it has had white patches when I first got it, and they have all but disappeared. I'm guessing the white patches on the rim of mine were stress induced. They came back a little bit after it was shreaded by an MP40. Many months later after heal, it's back to normal, no stripes. It's a solid all one color, orangeish tips, but the real color is hard to describe, really a cool original color IMO.

I look at the center of the anemone above, it looks kind of saturated in blue. Then at noon in the photo, looks awefully redish. My gut says shopped, but I really have no clue. The tentacles look a bit on the short side, like that guy isn't quite settled, which could explain all the color on the rim (stress induced, just a guess). Thanks for the pic. Pics seem to be far and few between on here.

 

[Ron Popeil]

there is no way that anemone is that red. its just overly saturated. this is a brown anemone with hints of orange and white patches.

that being said, i would still like to have this in a plastic bag under my arm while i run home.

 

[Winwood]

there is no way that anemone is that red. its just overly saturated. this is a brown anemone with hints of orange and white patches.

that being said, i would still like to have this in a plastic bag under my arm while i run home.

Lol!

 

[Reefvette]

Lines and white mean stress taylor is right

 

[phender]

Looks to me like it was taken under actinics and then the saturation levels were bumped up a bit/a lot. Since the parts that we usually see as white are yellow in the pic, there is a chance that the red was enhanced a bit, but you can't tell for sure.

 

[Winwood]

Just to give a baseline, the original poster claimed the photo was under 20 k LED lighting. I only have reference for 20k mh lighting and even that is pretty variable. Therefore, all I know is I really like looking at that photo.

 

[OrionN]

I think everybody are right in that the color saturation got boost up quite a bit. There is no way anything under 20K light is that white or yellow.
The picture was take with black background so we lost the normal back ground to compare to.

 

[D-Nak]

As a graphic designer who uses Photoshop a lot, this photo is definitely over-saturated. Some of the tell tale signs are the yellow that is blown out -- appears blurry when it shouldn't -- as well as the artifacts (black or multi-colored speckles) that are vey obvious around the mouth.

Photographing against a black background doesn't allow for a typical white reference of egg-crate or sand as Minh pointed out, but also allows for saturation to be applied without changing the background.

That said, here's a photo of a mertensii that landed at my LFS and it looked very much like it did in the photo:

I'm hoping the person who bought it starts a thread on it -- he's active on the boards. :dance:

 

[buddythelion]

As a graphic designer who uses Photoshop a lot, this photo is definitely over-saturated. Some of the tell tale signs are the yellow that is blown out -- appears blurry when it shouldn't -- as well as the artifacts (black or multi-colored speckles) that are vey obvious around the mouth.

Photographing against a black background doesn't allow for a typical white reference of egg-crate or sand as Minh pointed out, but also allows for saturation to be applied without changing the background.

That said, here's a photo of a mertensii that landed at my LFS and it looked very much like it did in the photo:

I'm hoping the person who bought it starts a thread on it -- he's active on the boards. :dance:

Wha, someone bought it? It was still there was I swung by yesterday (Sunday)!

 

[Greg 45]

I have had them come in in different colors never like this
Some have a gray hue or a purple coloration
most are brown that I have recieved
never multi colored

 

[cali9dub]

Wha, someone bought it? It was still there was I swung by yesterday (Sunday)!

Swing by Friday....you'll see it gone !! Lol.

 

[BonsaiNut]

Here is probably a pretty close approximation:

Let's hope the buyer knows how to care for S. mertensii. We have seen orange ones in the past - they are uncommon but not unknown.

Check out this thread for photos of an orange S. mertensii in the wild.

 

[bradleym]

It was re-listed, still out there for sale.

 

[Reefvette]

Mertens

Mertens

The anemone in the questioned photo is def not a true representation of the colors.

Mertens when stressed show off white lines and outer rim banding.

Ask for a a flash photo of this mertens on a white background.

In the US we like to overkill with actinics, reefers in other countries and europe think were nuts because of the actinic overkill.

All is does is make corals and nems look crazy colored. Then you get home and they look dull.

 

[Ocfishguy]

I sent an email via eBay and asked to see more photos and this is what he said, start from the bottom I copy/pasted it out of ebay email;

Dear ocfishguy1,

No problem

- coralreefing

From: ocfishguy1
To: coralreefing
Subject: Re: Other: ocfishguy1 sent a message about WYSIWYG Rainbow Carpet Anemone: live coral clown fish #300887355695
Sent Date: Apr-09-13 10:19:22 PDT

Dear coralreefing,

The mouth is only half showing. I cant send that kind of money with just one photo sorry.

- ocfishguy1


From: coralreefing
To: ocfishguy1
Subject: Re: Other: ocfishguy1 sent a message about WYSIWYG Rainbow Carpet Anemone: live coral clown fish #300887355695
Sent Date: Apr-09-13 10:00:55 PDT

Dear ocfishguy1,

Sorry we only have an over head view of the anemone. It is in perfect health. We have had for over a 1 month now. You can see the mouth in the photo and part of the underside with the purple blotches. The photo shows it fully open. I hope that helps!

- coralreefing


From: ocfishguy1
To: coralreefing
Subject: Other: ocfishguy1 sent a message about WYSIWYG Rainbow Carpet Anemone: live coral clown fish #300887355695
Sent Date: Apr-09-13 06:00:33 PDT

Dear coralreefing,

Do you have better pictures of the anemone? If i am going to spend that much money I would want to see more photos, underside, foot, fully open and the mouth ect.

- ocfishguy1

 

[Pinkskunk]

well 2 things:

1) i can somewhat judge on the pic that the mouth is not closed, it is open but not too big, prob dime size open?

2) the seller wants over $1thousand dollars for this thing and doesnt want to make an efford to snap a few more photos, then why would i want to waste my money on that?

i'd say let it go.