What is the best looking over the top SPS coral??
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jrdonnellyjr
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tibob32
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Thanks, however I'm from Canada and its not as easy to get designer stuff around here
1mbrews8
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Wow! What is that 2nd one???
Too many to choose from.....basically any SPS with contrasting colors looks better from above IMO.
Somthing like this
or this
or this
glennr1978
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lol, my thoughts exactly. sure looks pretty though.
dvanacker
DID I SOUNDS SMRT??
It's not photoshoped at all. Never opened in photoshop and saturation never adjusted. The white balance is still a little on the blue side though compared to the other two pictures.....though I assure you it looks pretty close to what I see, I try my hardest to get true to life photo's. All 3 pictures taken top down.
SomeDude12
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Right on. One of my biggest peeves is retailers drastically changing the colors of listed corals, knowing that it's not what the consumer will receive. Divers Den has been increasingly guilty of this as well.
MammothReefer
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You can easily get over saturated photos when shooting top down aquarium. You don't need to "photoshop" them. With that said it's an accurate representation of how many pieces look from the top down in my experience. I find a lot of times when I shot I end up having to DE-saturate to adjust my colours.. There is no cleaner/crispier way to shoot your tank then top down.
Here is an perfect example.. I was tired and lazy and didn't bother to fix this, first two pictures are top down shot of my red dragon. Clearly the camera had a hard time interpreting it's colours of this coral in conjunction with my lighting. It's a great looking coral but not THAT vibrant. Everything else in the photo is very accurately coloured. The 3rd picture was shot the same way. This is a PERFECT representation of it's colours, and everything else. photographing our aquariums is not an easy thing to do some times. We are working with some very funky light spectrums and then trying to convince the camera to adapt to it the way our eyes do.
Who is really lying when we look at our tanks under high kelvin bulbs the camera or our eyes?
I know if I look at a normal light then my tank it looks very blue, however the longer I look at my tank the more white it becomes.
Here is an perfect example.. I was tired and lazy and didn't bother to fix this, first two pictures are top down shot of my red dragon. Clearly the camera had a hard time interpreting it's colours of this coral in conjunction with my lighting. It's a great looking coral but not THAT vibrant. Everything else in the photo is very accurately coloured. The 3rd picture was shot the same way. This is a PERFECT representation of it's colours, and everything else. photographing our aquariums is not an easy thing to do some times. We are working with some very funky light spectrums and then trying to convince the camera to adapt to it the way our eyes do.
Who is really lying when we look at our tanks under high kelvin bulbs the camera or our eyes?
I know if I look at a normal light then my tank it looks very blue, however the longer I look at my tank the more white it becomes.
MammothReefer
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Mammoth, our brain is responsible for processing white balance ... we can only wish one day a processor would be able to duplicate it.
beautiful shots everyone
semantics!
scrapz
Saturation+100
tyree icefire echinata i believe
MammothReefer
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I'm not sure. I bought it from Atlantis when I visited the bay area over the summer. The owner wasn't around the girls working weren't sure which piece it was on the website. It had a really unusually growth. The main body was thicker then any acro I had seen it was like a sold stock 3"-4" thick, but looking back now I wonder if the growth was due to how they keep trim/frag things at Atlantis. It's don't believe it an echinata. If I had to guess it's one of there torts. I just don't know which one.
glennr1978
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Then you should be proud!! Those are some amazing corals you have there!
MammothReefer
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........and when can I pick it up??
Soon as you show up at my place w/poutine ^_^
Too many to choose from.....basically any SPS with contrasting colors looks better from above IMO.
Somthing like this
or this
or this
Thanks for sharing. Awesome shots and corals! :beer:
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