Orange torch - what do you think?
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VintageReefer
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Next up, red torch!
I’m told they exist. Or at least used to!
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The palette is missing one critical orange shade - "scam orange"@MERKEY
I did it. Might be a technicality, but I would consider this orange torch. It might be orangish or orange-gold in some lighting, but this might be as close as I can get to an orange torch, and a lot of the time it truly looks orange. Especially if you have a Knicks or 24k nearby and can see them both at once.
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Let's raise that saturation enough to bring out the orange.
LOL. I don't recall seeing a red torch back in the day. I do remember red gonis being passed as a torch by LFS before we knew any better.
I'd believe it if you put that color swatch next to the coral and then do your post processing.
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The saturation on the pic is zero and I did not do any post processingLet's raise that saturation enough to bring out the orange.
I'd believe it if you put that color swatch next to the coral and then do your post processing.
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Nor did I do any preprocessing. This is blue lighting, a tiny bit of whites. And a standard clip on orange lens.
And just for the naysayers i anticipated like @Borat i turned the whites to 100%, and have blues and violet at my standard 40%, and removed the orange lens and took these pictures unfiltered and unedited
And just for the naysayers i anticipated like @Borat i turned the whites to 100%, and have blues and violet at my standard 40%, and removed the orange lens and took these pictures unfiltered and unedited
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I don’t either but merky is the one who told me it existed
LOL. I don't recall seeing a red torch back in the day. I do remember red gonis being passed as a torch by LFS before we knew any better.
I found this pic from reefbuilders touring a high end coral store in england
Borat
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Surely you heard of "The Wizard of Oz" tale? Orange filter + organgy glasses - suddenly everything looks kind of orange!Nor did I do any preprocessing. This is blue lighting, a tiny bit of whites. And a standard clip on orange lens.
And just for the naysayers i anticipated like @Borat i turned the whites to 100%, and have blues and violet at my standard 40%, and removed the orange lens and took these pictures unfiltered and unedited
BryanM
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Using an orange filter on a cell phone camera with mostly blue lighting equals reasonably accurate photos. Can't really take cell phone pics without, at least with an iphone.
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Sounds like you are unfamiliar with coral photography
The orange glasses make nothing look orange. They reduce blue light to a over sensitive camera sensor and result in a photo that mimics in person viewing from the naked eye
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See. Orange stays orange. Yellow stays yellow. Green stays green. Blues stay blue. Pinks stay pink. The orange filter does nothing to the color of the corals. If anything is different than standing in person, it’s very subtle
If the torch was yellow, gold, etc it would show up that way.
And no. I’m not wearing orange glasses when I say “in person” viewing
JoJosReef
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If @VintageReefer says the torch is orange, then by Neptune, that torch is bloody orange!
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If you look at the color chart (which was a great idea) and see all the different types of orange, yes it’s definitely in the orange family. It’s just not the orange that one would typically picture as orange, like my wall leptos or these zoas in the center
Here you can see the full tank with the orange lens and none of the other corals are “tinted orange”
On the far left is a banana grail, something we are all familiar with as a reference, and under the anthia is a dragon tamer, which is hard to see but it’s there, and you can see the difference between the yellow banana, the gold dragon tamer, and then this guy which clearly is more orange
If my filter was changing the color of a yellow or gold torch to orange, then the others would have the same effect, but they are exactly as one would expect, and this is what it all looks like in person
There is no saturation changes, no pre or post editing, and no filtering except for a standard clip on lens which I use for all of my photos and is essential or the camera makes everything hyper blue and inaccurate
Any brightness changes are from me adjusting the white level of the leds over my tank.
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I don’t even know when you are serious or joking. True to the character!
It’s Fanta Torch!
Borat
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Just kidding! Honestly I am not a big LPS fan, so I would not have paid more than $10 for a fancy torch, but that's just me!I don’t even know when you are serious or joking. True to the character!
It’s Fanta Torch!
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I get it you like coral of sticks
Me to! high five! This one vury niiice!
But how you say…not like the lps? look at this it size of hand (non gypsy!) and reminds me of fiery Kazak sunrise!
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