Question fo all the photo pro's

foxhuntr · Mar 11, 2011

Ok.... i have a question...... i have had these zoa's /paly's for about 3 years now. they came to me as a hitch hiker.. really i have no idea where they came from.. anyhow.. they are really slow growers. well to get to my question.... i was taking pics this morning with my face right against the glass and looked really close at those zoa's/paly's and noticed they were changing color.... so i snapped a few pics of them with my Nikon coolpix S-8100 camera....my blue T-5's were the only lights on in the tank....now my question is.... is this the true color of these zoa's/paly's or is the pic getting saturated ??? the first couple of pics were with only the T5's only and they last couple of pics were after one halide came on...i run on a 3 phase lighting schedule....so can someone take a look at these pics and tell me if you can see if they are saturated or not ??? or is the camera picking up colors that the naked eye can not....cause i know alot of corals show alot more color in pics on macro shots..... i know there are ways of telling but i am not very good with a camera and all the technical stuff...to me you just squeeze the button and boom you have a pic...so any help would be great
Thanks

returnofsid · Mar 11, 2011

Only you will be able to tell, for sure, if the photos represent a true image. When you look at them, do they look like the photos? Although, you could send them to me, then I could look at them, look at your photos, look at them some more, look at your photos some more....admire my new beautiful Zoanthids, and then report back!

butts182 · Mar 11, 2011

returnofsid said:
Only you will be able to tell, for sure, if the photos represent a true image. When you look at them, do they look like the photos? Although, you could send them to me, then I could look at them, look at your photos, look at them some more, look at your photos some more....admire my new beautiful Zoanthids, and then report back!

I agree that they should represent the way the coral looks...a lot of people say that some pics are too blue, but some people like their tanks that way...others don't...they first few pics look like they are saturated, and the last 2 look more regular, fwiw

foxhuntr · Mar 11, 2011

well the polyps in the pics are alittle more pink than they are with the naked eye......but depending on the lighting sometimes they look like that in person.. the only thing that changed from the first 3 pics to the last 2 pics is the lighting....like i said the one halide came on....it came on as i was taking the the pics....