Raz Reef 90 gal from Memphis
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Bpb
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Nice acro collection. For better photos here are a few tricks that can help with Iphone 6:
Change the spectrum for picture taking specifically. Cut the blues on the Kessils as low as possible. If you can also turn off your blues on the ATI as well and shoot with as much white light only as you can. It may look ugly to the naked eye, but the pictures will pick it up more realistically and actually represent more blue than your eyes can see.
Secondly. Get some Gel filters ( they're usually plastic, dont know why theyre called gel) if possible. You can actually buy them from any online vendor like amazon or whatever. But use the yellow/orange shaded ones that block and filter out most of the blue light. Or if you're cheap like me, use an old pair of blue blocker sunglasses. Those work as well if you have some laying around. Put that over the camera lens and it'll tame the blue as well.
Third. Get on the App store and download "Adobe Lightroom" it should be free (or at least it was when I downloaded it). Experiment with the color temperature/white balance settings, the tint, shadows, and saturation. Using the APP I find is essential even when changing the light config for pics and using a filter over the light. The idea is to remove the blue to begin with, and use the App to dial in just enough color to make it realistic or a true representation. It's easy to overdo it and make your photos look OBVIOUSLY shopped, and you should avoid that. But with some practice you should be able to nail it. Just stand in front of the tank and look back and forth when adjusting the sliders and try to make it identical. Pretty easy.
Next step would be getting an actual DSLR with a nice macro lens and shoot in RAW mode, and then edit them in the actual computer version of Adobe Lightroom. Then you'll get that ridiculous clarity of zoomed in pics where you can actually see pests lol. Not saying you have them.
Change the spectrum for picture taking specifically. Cut the blues on the Kessils as low as possible. If you can also turn off your blues on the ATI as well and shoot with as much white light only as you can. It may look ugly to the naked eye, but the pictures will pick it up more realistically and actually represent more blue than your eyes can see.
Secondly. Get some Gel filters ( they're usually plastic, dont know why theyre called gel) if possible. You can actually buy them from any online vendor like amazon or whatever. But use the yellow/orange shaded ones that block and filter out most of the blue light. Or if you're cheap like me, use an old pair of blue blocker sunglasses. Those work as well if you have some laying around. Put that over the camera lens and it'll tame the blue as well.
Third. Get on the App store and download "Adobe Lightroom" it should be free (or at least it was when I downloaded it). Experiment with the color temperature/white balance settings, the tint, shadows, and saturation. Using the APP I find is essential even when changing the light config for pics and using a filter over the light. The idea is to remove the blue to begin with, and use the App to dial in just enough color to make it realistic or a true representation. It's easy to overdo it and make your photos look OBVIOUSLY shopped, and you should avoid that. But with some practice you should be able to nail it. Just stand in front of the tank and look back and forth when adjusting the sliders and try to make it identical. Pretty easy.
Next step would be getting an actual DSLR with a nice macro lens and shoot in RAW mode, and then edit them in the actual computer version of Adobe Lightroom. Then you'll get that ridiculous clarity of zoomed in pics where you can actually see pests lol. Not saying you have them.
Excellent tips bpb. These pictures do no justice. I will get to work on correcting and post back here with an update in a few months. Thank you sir!
I would like to recognize the members of this forum for my successes thus far. The countless hours learning from each of you has been priceless. Sounds like an writing a TOM article here. Lol. Fact is anyone who comes into my home walks straight to the tank and loves the corals. Many want me to teach them how it's done. Until next time.....
I would like to recognize the members of this forum for my successes thus far. The countless hours learning from each of you has been priceless. Sounds like an writing a TOM article here. Lol. Fact is anyone who comes into my home walks straight to the tank and loves the corals. Many want me to teach them how it's done. Until next time.....
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Bpb
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No problem! I know the pics don't do justice. I can use my imagination and see the colony shapes and sizes, as well as the hue of the pictures and figure what it actually looks like. Because that is how my tank looks if I just take a straight iPhone pic with no fixing. It'll help a lot.
Not to derail your thread but here's an example. First is just a raw unedited iPhone pic of the tank under dawn/dusk. Second is using the above fixes. Also a 90 gallon. Pics are under an ATI blue+ and ATI True Actinic
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Not to derail your thread but here's an example. First is just a raw unedited iPhone pic of the tank under dawn/dusk. Second is using the above fixes. Also a 90 gallon. Pics are under an ATI blue+ and ATI True Actinic
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markalot
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Ok, maybe don't need updates but I'll bring these to the new page.
Time for a journal update. Corals seem to be growing and coloring up well the last few months. Not much changed equipment wise other than adding a UV.
I took your advise and made some iPhone adjustments. I didn't do any external editing but did use a camera app and a gel filter to get these. I still obviously need to keep practicing. Thanks a lot!
And for the record that is not cynao you see in the pictures. It's coralline.
And for the record that is not cynao you see in the pictures. It's coralline.
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Reeflife916
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Wow the pics look so much better with the adjustments you made! Great looking tank
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Thanks for the compliments! This reef is a serious stress reliever for me. My family respects my passion for it but doesn't quite "get it" when I sit in front of it for an hour or so every night.
Anyway, here is a short video I took over the weekend with my iPhone 6. I am excited for it to grow out in the next couple of years.
PS - I moved the pictures to a public folder in Photobucket so now those links are dead in the posts above. I will add them back again next time I post to track the growth progress.
Anyway, here is a short video I took over the weekend with my iPhone 6. I am excited for it to grow out in the next couple of years.
PS - I moved the pictures to a public folder in Photobucket so now those links are dead in the posts above. I will add them back again next time I post to track the growth progress.
wow! great tank! thanks again for the pic taking guidance.
No problem! I know the pics don't do justice. I can use my imagination and see the colony shapes and sizes, as well as the hue of the pictures and figure what it actually looks like. Because that is how my tank looks if I just take a straight iPhone pic with no fixing. It'll help a lot.
Not to derail your thread but here's an example. First is just a raw unedited iPhone pic of the tank under dawn/dusk. Second is using the above fixes. Also a 90 gallon. Pics are under an ATI blue+ and ATI True Actinic
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Bpb
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Thank you! It's very young right now in its current state. Been up and running for almost 3 years now, but this rock scape is only a couple months old and acro frags are tiny. I hope in the next year or two to have colonies as healthy as yours. It's not common to see densely stocked 90 gallon tanks anymore lately. Yours is a testament
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