Orange Hammers
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roblack
Active member
This thread is hilarious. Orange hammer and torch owners that love their corals is fine. The better pics herein look more tannish to me, with some orange hue, and are beautiful. They most likely look more colorful in person. Why are "tan" and "brown" bad words anyways. I want to see a brown LE chalice! I am sure there are worthy candidates out there.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
not "most likely"...
the right specimen under the right lighting looks mindblowing
rydr119
Member
Don't get me wrong I love my brown zoas I think they look awesome but I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Although it may not be the right opinion its still theirs. lol. Now seriously I run a 20K radium and thats it as far as lighting goes, so if needs actinics to look neon orange I wouldn't consider that a true orange. I just love all the Euphyllias out there whatever color they happen to be. The funny thing is I wonder if all the fish in these tanks see color the same way we do? (Probably not) Because if not they must think we are all crazy putting such "colors" together thinking it looks good.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15690645#post15690645 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
not "most likely"...
the right specimen under the right lighting looks mindblowing
Yup. Call my pics "tan" all you like. When you see one of these, after SO many years of the common Euphyllia colors, you will get it.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
another one
another one
but it's obvious pix don't do them justice
another one
but it's obvious pix don't do them justice
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
pic was taken a couple of years ago
roblack
Active member
Peter and everyone else who has posted a pic of an orange hammer, I owe you an apology. I'm sorry. Just asked my wife, who is an artist and fashion designer to sit down and tell me what color she thought the corals were. She said they look yellow/orange to her. She knows her colors very well. I have trouble differentiating some shades. My idea of what is "orange" is different, and most likely contaminated from years of looking at brilliantly colored corals under leds and 20k lighting. Good thing I still ask her if my clothes match before leaving for work.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Nice of you to apologize but (as far as I'm concerned) I do see your point of view. Orange hammer is one of those corals that must be seen in person as it's dang near impossible to truly show how nice it looks in a picture. JMO.
dan10342
New member
Thanks for the apology. Very stand up thing to do. I too am an artist, and the first thing I can honestly say is, orange and brown are VERY similar. as a matter of fact, if you decide to make orange "darker", you will most likely end up with BROWN, and TAN if its "lighter". And since a photo does not do well with capturing "iridescence", I'm sure that orange all of a sudden came out as "brown".
johnatan2007
In Memoriam
Those ORANGE hammers are nothing less than AWSOME, may i ask were you guys got them from, il admit, IM HOOKED!!
The Aussie "orange" hammers come in three shades:
1. brownish with a very slight orange hue
2. orangey-brown
3. bright orange
They are all however labeled as "orange hammers".
The vendors which get the more common "brown" hammers, put them under heavy blues to bring out the orange in them. The orangey-brown hammers are a bit harder to come by but they're out there. The super bright orange hammers are really hard to come across as only a few tend to trickle through.
1. brownish with a very slight orange hue
2. orangey-brown
3. bright orange
They are all however labeled as "orange hammers".
The vendors which get the more common "brown" hammers, put them under heavy blues to bring out the orange in them. The orangey-brown hammers are a bit harder to come by but they're out there. The super bright orange hammers are really hard to come across as only a few tend to trickle through.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15711397#post15711397 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyjack
thanks thats a bad picture it looks much better in person and im a lousy photographer.here is a photo from auatic auctions where i go it
Now that's a nice looking pink aussie hammer. My LFS charges $120 a head for those.
nanoreefbro
New member
I actually have a frag of that I am trying to bring back... Maybe I should give it to you to take care of...
