Turned that regal angel into a peppermint angel lolI think editing has its place. Maybe you’re editing the blue out of a photo to show what your tank really looks like to you:
Maybe you bought yourself a fish called a “dragon” wrasse but it doesn’t really look like a dragon:
So... there is nothing wrong with creating a fake image, scamming people out of their money (we all know the vendor would say WYSIWYG with the editted pictures), but when someone else does it for likes and lies about it, now THAT'S bad? An overly editted picture like the one you posted is obviously editted and if they want to lie about it, why would that bother you or me? I'd go as far as to say a small edits to fix some lighting and shadow etc. and saying that your tank looks like that isn't even a lie, you merely showcase certain aspects a bit more. The right side of my tank is lit up to some extent by natural sunlight, combined with the lights I run it can create very fake looking images due to the shading, colors and whatnot, but by your standards it would also be lied.
Lol no denying that one
I do agree especially when shopping fir corals online for people that still don’t understand photo editing they get there coral and wonder why there coral doesn’t look like the one In the photo
Even from high end vendors (i.e. not trying to scam anyone), if I see a coral I'm interested in, I always ask for a pic under whites... That's how I run my lights most of the time so I want to know how it will look in my tank.
No idea how you came to these conclusions based on @Frugal Reefer 's post...
Yeah my not even 1 year tank with 4 corals has more color than this
To be fair, most of us (or at least me) don't have cameras that can take accurate looking pics without some sort of manipulation; Cameras pick up even the blue our eyes can't see. If I ever sell coral I'm very clear about any photo editing, but sometimes it's a necessity. (Of course, I don't ship and only sell to/trade with local hobbyists)Almost every picture you see now is saturated or fake! If you gotta run blues and put on orange sunglasses to take pictures it says something….. the orange filter in its self will make the colors change in photos and represent something it’s not! Ya know like the old ziploc bags “blue and yellow make green”
My biggest peeve is back in the day we’d clown somebody for posting photoshopped over saturated photos!! I take a break and come back to all blue led photos and it’s accepted now because it’s not photoshopped… hahahahaha like come on! I’ve seen some really high end acros in person and they look nothing like google images or the Sps show off thread here! #bluethumbreefers
Photos like this just make me scratch my head. Everyone knows it's manipulated, and doesn't look good in any way. And if the person who posted this photo says it's "not edited" then they set up some weird settings on the camera then took the photo, so the words "edited" may not be accurate, but they know what we mean. I mean who doesn't have a painting that melts into itself so you can't see it on the wall?
Anybody else sick and tired of overly edited photos that people post on social media and then when called out vehemently defend that the photo isn't edited like this pic. I don't claim to have an awesome looking reef tank but when you edit your photos like this, post them on social media and then pretend that this is what the tank looks like in real life, I mean, c'mon now. Anyways, rant over.
This looks real, the photo the op posted looks like some marketing team is going to be slapping it on one of their labels.Sometimes it really looks like that in person though.
I think it's more of not saying the pictures are taken with a lens of some kind. A simple orange filter like the ones from Polyp Lab are great for taking pictures with am iphone. I wish I still had my google pixel, didn't need a filter of any kind on that camera for accurate pictures.
You'll need to tell me how, because my camera is a Google pixel, lol! I definitely need a filter to get the blue out.
Manual settings help, but a lens will probably still be required. You have to shoot in a "pro" or custom mode, and change the white balance settings. Cameras are made to shoot almost everything else on Earth, because most people take pictures of things in white (3000-5000k) light. They haven't made a camera specifically for the hobby yet that I am aware of.
Looks like the 4a camera doesn't have the pro/custom option. Guess that's why I couldn't find it! Lol
