Sick Rainbow Acans for the meeting

[imcosmokramer]

I have a few frags of rainbow acans that I have cut off from my colony and have healed over the past few weeks. $40 a polyp with a 2 polyp min. If you get more than 2, we can work out a deal.

The two 2-polyp frags in the pictures are already sold. If you are interested, please post here and PM me. I will pm you picks of your frag.

These are crazy nice. If you want a second opinion, TJ has seen them, so ask him.

 

[itZme]

HMMM and you were blaming others for using photoshop when posting selling pics? ... LOL j/k
Those are SWEET! Very nice colors.

 

[sohal1025]

Whats the deal with photoshop????
Not a good thing or what?

 

[MeVsTheWorld]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14842947#post14842947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sohal1025
Whats the deal with photoshop????
Not a good thing or what?

Not that Sagi needs it (his tank is incredible), but it's a way to enhance and exaggerate colors. Can make the corals more desirable, easier to sell until you get them in your tank and the colors just aren't there.

 

[imcosmokramer]

Yeah, some sellers will use photoshop to color correct their images due to the fact that the aquarium lighting we use naturally throws off the camera's sensors by default. This discrepancy can by reduced of course by setting a custom white balance. photoshop can also be used to sharpen photos, and correct exposures.

The issue arises, as Bill said, from altering colors.

So, to answer the question, photoshop is not inherently bad, it's just a matter of some sellers misrepresenting their corals. I personally don't understand doing that, since we sell/trade most of our corals to our friends.

Basically, these acans are just brown, and I painted these colors on them. KIDDING!!

 

[Cove Beach]

Another thing is if you are going to post photos of corals for sale to say what kind of light and the Kelvin of the bulbs you are using as the pictures we often see look as if they are taken under pure atinic which will improve the look of hair algae! It also gives the buyer an idea of how it will look in his or her tank. Just a thought.

 

[imcosmokramer]

these are in my frag tank with Blue Plus, Super Actinic, Aquasun, Blue Plus. If anyone is interested in a frag, and wants to see them under MH lights, LMK and I'll get another shot, I just couldn't get a good shot of the mother colony in my tank.

 

[Notathumpa]

Wow! Those are beautiful......but I'm poor.

 

[Tswifty]

As Sagi mentioned, I have seen them in person, and have some in my tank. The pictures he posted are a true representation of them under the T5 lighting he currently has over that tank (and he's not even using "actinics only"). However, it doesn't take a genius to know that corals will look different under different lighting.

Here they are under my lighting... Just one halide... no actinic supplementation. It's an Aqualine AB 20k bulb, but honestly it's a very white spectrum, and my Pheonix 14k's were bluer than this. In my opinion, and experience with quite a few different MH bulbs thus far... I would personally would rank the spectrum somewhere in the 12-14k region.

They're looking better and better by the day. Everytime you see "crazy" colors in a coral it doesn't mean Photoshop was used guys. Take the booth at the swap... A Reef Creations or whatever. Their stuff glowed... simply because it was under actinics only. Anyway, here are the pics, and you can ask people that have seen my tank... these pics don't do them justice, but it's the best I can get with my P&S.

Picture right after the lights came on this morning.

 

[vietcu]

You got PM.

 

[itZme]

T.J. --- photoshopped again. LOL

It was kind of funny because Sagi had joked with me about my pics being photoshopped at the frag swap so I was just giving it back to him on here. I have some acans that have crazy colors too but I'm not going to be fragging them anytime soon. I bought all of them at the same time and each had 2 heads. They are now up to about 15-20 each.

 

[Carlos]

Closed per imcosmokramer's request.