Pufferpunk's 90g Reef

[Pufferpunk]

A professional photographer from my reef club stopped by to take some pics!

Yellow clown goby

Hydnophora

Black clown goby

Galaxia

Cocoworm

Darth Mauls (color should be redder)

Frogspawn

Green protopaly

Midas

Orange Crush

 

[Pufferpunk]

Lobo

Sun coral

Sunset monti

Superman monti

Tubb's Blues

 

[Pufferpunk]

Side shot

 

[Poseidon]

Great looking tank!

The pictures look pretty good too. You may want to check the color space, I'll bet he saved them in Adobe RGB, for web posting you will want them to be in sRGB, that should put a little POP back in the colors, especially in the superman and Darth Mauls... Or I could be wrong.

 

[coral88]

Wow Nice tank. I don't think you have room for much more and I always think there is room for more coral.

 

[Pufferpunk]

LOL, always room for more zoas! I have other tanks I can move stuff over to.

I took a class with this guy & he uses the grey eyedropper to bring colors back to "natural" in PS. The problem is, since he doesn't have the corals in front of him when he does this at home & if he isn't familiar with the true colors, this is what happens to them. I can't mess with his pics--he's real particular about that, so I just make an explanation for it.

 

[oceanparadise1]

Wow nice stuff but i think you posted this thread 3 times lol

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, sorry, I deleted the other one & the 3rd is in the selling forum.

 

[Poseidon]

LOL, always room for more zoas! I have other tanks I can move stuff over to.

I took a class with this guy & he uses the grey eyedropper to bring colors back to "natural" in PS. The problem is, since he doesn't have the corals in front of him when he does this at home & if he isn't familiar with the true colors, this is what happens to them. I can't mess with his pics--he's real particular about that, so I just make an explanation for it.

They are very good, I agree. Actually they are in sRGB, I looked. Your explanation is a good one, I could see that technique making the colors appear flat. I imported the yellow goby picture into Lightroom, and most of the saturation comes back by setting the black point.

BTW, he uses the same camera I do! He has good taste! :hammer:

 

[Pufferpunk]

Darn, I wish those pics depicted the true gorgeous colors of the corals.

 

[oceanparadise1]

ur tubbs look AWSOME

 

[MarvinsReef]

looking good... did they take any FTS?

 

[Lytehouse]

They are splendid none the less. We know how great they look. Very nice tank. You must get hours of enjoyment. Is every blenney a hoot to watch and a camera bug?

 

[Pufferpunk]

It was hard to get that Midas out of some of the shots!

 

[revhtree]

Your tank looks awesome!! Your corals are not to shabby either! Lot's O eye candy!

 

[Eklikewhoa]

Nice!

 

[gparr]

Great looking tank!

The pictures look pretty good too. You may want to check the color space, I'll bet he saved them in Adobe RGB, for web posting you will want them to be in sRGB, that should put a little POP back in the colors, especially in the superman and Darth Mauls... Or I could be wrong.

Poseidon,
My name is Gary Parr and I took the photos of Jeni's tank. I do need to establish that I am not a professional, just an addicted amateur.

I'm curious as to what you are seeing. The images on my Mac are as bright, colorful, and saturated as I'm comfortable posting. Any further adjustments make them look over processed and over saturated. The yellow clown goby was not a very good shot to begin with and I should have made it clear to Jeni that it wasn't worth posting. The reason I processed that image as I did is that any other attempt made the yellows on the fish block up and look bad. I should have simply deleted the image.

I would like to know what it is that you're seeing. Does this image look better to you? It looks fake and over processed to me. I would appreciate your feedback.

http://www.gparr.com/photos/albums/userpics/10001/clowngoby02a.jpg

Gary

 

[Pufferpunk]

Gary, That goby to my eyes, under my lighting is a bluish-grey color. It's actually named a Black clown goby. I also was wondering about the Superman, as it is bright blue with brilliant red polyps. The Darth Maul is more red than orange.

I hope you don't mind my being critical--I am thrilled that you bothered at all to take such lovely pics of my tanks.

 

[Poseidon]

Hi Gary! Did you change something in the links, or did something change on my end? I am looking at the images again, and they look GREAT, but I SWEAR the last time I looked at them, the colors looked a bit flat. Tonight however everything looks very good. (Except the superman.)

As for the link, you are right, I don't like that either.

I am using a calibrated Macbook Pro, (calibrating a notebook never really works though) my main computer is a dual display MacPro with a pair of 20" Cinema Displays, over there the images look GREAT!

It must have been something on my end.... *weird*

What got you into photography? Was it the tank, or was it something else?

 

[unseen_dc]

Nice tank PUFFER,i also love those palys in your avatar,what are they do,and do you have any to frag?