Show me your ultra ultra ultra LPS pieces!

[dhraako]

Thanks!

I was amazed too since they only looked 70 percent that good when I bought em. I love LEDs.

 

[Reffer831]

What a great pic!!!!!!!! can you tell me about body, lens, and settings? The acan is one of a kind, but you got some skills man.

 

[Reffer831]

 

[dhraako]

What a great pic!!!!!!!! can you tell me about body, lens, and settings? The acan is one of a kind, but you got some skills man.

Thanks

It's a T1i with a 100mm 2.8F Canon macro lense on a tripod with the room lights off and blue LEDs on. I shoot in AV and I'd have to confirm from the RAW pic but I think I shot the pic at ~7.1F. The exposure was I think about -1 that's usually what I shoot at.

The key for me is to shoot in RAW then set the white balance and color levels/curve in photoshop since its impossible to get the white balance right with the LEDs. Actually I'd imagine regardless of your lighting shooting in RAW is the way to go.

This link was my tutorial for post shot processing:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/digital_photo_post.php

It took me some time to get good at it but like the writer says, once you start it only takes minutes to complete pictures now.

 

[firsttank]

New Acan I just picked up.

<img src="http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=89282" alt="roarcan" />

Beautiful ....very nice coloration and very nice picture.

 

[dhraako]

Beautiful ....very nice coloration and very nice picture.

Thanks a bunch

 

[Greif11]

Hi all,
here's my latest achievements of today. I hope you like them.
The color is definitely better when they are used only once at the new home.

Sven



Uploaded with ImageShack.us



Uploaded with ImageShack.us



Uploaded with ImageShack.us







Uploaded with ImageShack.us

 

[Randy15]

some acans and my trach. first two pics are of the same one just under different lighting. (sorry for the crappy picture quality).

 

[Reffer831]

 

[Greif11]

very nice reffer!!!!!

 

[Reffer831]

very nice reffer!!!!!

Thanks!!!

 

[kactusficus]

hi!

We don't have these amazingly colored acans, chalice and trachyphyllia here in France, and when from time to time it does happen, it is only for the "happy few" who can afford them...

so thanks for this eye candy thread!

Here is my pride, it's quite hard to find here:

Rhizotrochus typus:

cheers,
sabine

 

[Reffer831]

Just got a tripod!!!! chea!!!! a new improved in focus pic of my Neptune's Kryptonite.

LOL Here you go!!!

 

[Sheol]

Those look great in Actinic lighting. Do they keep their color in regular lighting?
If so, they are masterpieces!

Matthew

 

[Tahoe Reefer]

Here is a fav from my tank. None of the polyps are ever the same, this is one of the nice polyps.

 

[n0rk]

Not mine, but the collection of a good friend. These are the ones that our collector mates don't send across the water...

My photos don't show it so well, but this tank is the very definition of the world "ultra" currently in the process of migrating all the livestock into a totally new system...

 

[kipper31]

Any chance of a non heavy blue picture of the hammers etc?

 

[n0rk]

Once the new system is complete. These were just test shots I took for him to compare the look of halides and T5, I don't have others under full spectrum unfortunately. He was using 2x150W halides so we didn't want to fry them under my 10x Powermodule.

The new tank should be ready in about a month or so which is when I'll get some more shots.

 

[RokleM]

Here is a fav from my tank. None of the polyps are ever the same, this is one of the nice polyps.

:thumbsup:

I know what you mean. I have one that's similar. Very cool morph.

 

[klepto]

Not mine, but the collection of a good friend. These are the ones that our collector mates don't send across the water...

That is a lovely Euphyllia mosaic.. Thanks for sharing your friend's tank Ben.