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You have an amazing collection!
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Thank you! Been a long time in the making
 
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Oh I will be following along on this. Those are some pretty special pieces.
I’m really excited and a little nervous lol. I’ve had the Brain Freeze before. Got a nice piece from @FarmerTy a couple years ago and it was growing out nicely with no issues at all for about a year, until the sea hare apocalypse :( Broke my heart to lose all that growth but I’m optimistic that I can do it again. I am a lot more conscious of putting anything in the tank that doesn’t/shouldn’t belong, now.
 

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Hello R2R’s,
I am starting this thread because I’ve slowly been acquiring some beautiful frags and I would like to attempt to document the acquisition as well as coral progression. Id like to share my pics here so they aren’t just sitting in my iPhone camera roll where no one sees them but me lol. Enjoy!

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BKChem Jumanji


BKChem Flaming Sunrise


BKChem Cpt. Crozier brothers
I’ll have to work on a sharper image of these guys...
I'm enjoying your thread, makes me want to add to my collection. If you are ever selling any frags let me know, maybe we could meet up at a swap somewhere, i try to go to a few of the Ohio area swaps every year.
 
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I'm enjoying your thread, makes me want to add to my collection. If you are ever selling any frags let me know, maybe we could meet up at a swap somewhere, i try to go to a few of the Ohio area swaps every year.
Hi Joe462. I actually post frags for sale in the R2R forums quite often. I am in the process of trimming back some colonies to sell after New Years. You can keep an eye out or just PM me.
I generally don’t do swaps.
 
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This is one that I really can’t get a good shot of, with the DSLR. For some reason I can’t capture the colors that the eye sees without doing major photoshopping. Which I don’t like to do. So I’ve put a DSLR shot with an iPhone 11 Pro shot with orange and yellow filters to show the difference.

CC Disney jr
Purchased exactly 1 year ago. I have taken 2 frags from it. So it’s kind of a slow grower for me.

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IPhone shot. This is actually what your eye sees while the blues are on. I just can’t get those colors or “pop” with the DSLR.
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This is one that I really can’t get a good shot of, with the DSLR. For some reason I can’t capture the colors that the eye sees without doing major photoshopping. Which I don’t like to do. So I’ve put a DSLR shot with an iPhone 11 Pro shot with orange and yellow filters to show the difference.

CC Disney jr
Purchased exactly 1 year ago. I have taken 2 frags from it. So it’s kind of a slow grower for me.

DSLR SHOT
F606A9A1-7A4A-4799-BF4B-E180CEDA0D07.jpeg


IPhone shot. This is actually what your eye sees while the blues are on. I just can’t get those colors or “pop” with the DSLR.
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Not the fastest grower for me either. How much par are you giving her? I get some crazy colors on mine with 450 par but I also use a much whiter spectrum than most
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Not the fastest grower for me either. How much par are you giving her? I get some crazy colors on mine with 450 par but I also use a much whiter spectrum than most
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Beautiful Charlie! And that looks closer to a full spectrum shot than mine. I don’t see anything attractive in mine in full spec. It really is incredible under blues though...

What is that shot with?

I got it at 360-380. Blues at 85%, whites at 15% under good old fashion Ocean Revives!
 

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Beautiful Charlie! And that looks closer to a full spectrum shot than mine. I don’t see anything attractive in mine in full spec. It really is incredible under blues though...

What is that shot with?

I got it at 360-380. Blues at 85%, whites at 15% under good old fashion Ocean Revives!
Just my iPhone X with a diy brown clip on filter. Hydra 52 hds @ rb, v, uv at 120, b 50, r &g at 20 and w at 27
 
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This was a no name piece I picked up about 8 months ago. He’s usually super hairy but I put his polyps in to show his beautiful skin.

This is another piece where the DSLR just doesn’t pick up the variation in colors well. Especially the blues. I’m really going to have to figure out how to accurately capture those. Opinions on this piece are encouraged : )

SRC Seabreeze
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This was a no name piece I picked up about 8 months ago. He’s usually super hairy but I put his polyps in to show his beautiful skin.

This is another piece where the DSLR just doesn’t pick up the variation in colors well. Especially the blues. I’m really going to have to figure out how to accurately capture those. Opinions on this piece are encouraged : )

SRC Seabreeze
67D8647F-D1B0-44BF-9404-A2283F666476.jpeg

What DSLR do you use? How are you shooting it?

I have a cannon T3i, and it has a custom white balance and that works pretty well for me. Some times i have to try it a few different times based on the lighting and the coral i'm shooting. The cannon is the only one i have any experience using though. This is a JF jolt grow out i'm trying to get started.

I don't use a tri pod or anything, i apparently didn't hold this one steady enough, so they aren't perfect but the color is pretty accurate.
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this is a picture i took with the auto whitebalance setting and it still gets washed out by the blues, under blues.
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this one has a little bit of white light and again the custom whitebalance a little easier to shoot them that way in my opinion
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What DSLR do you use? How are you shooting it?
I used to do graduate photography before the reef tanks came along. So I’m pretty knowledgeable but not a master by any means. I use a Nikon D750 body w/ both 60mm & 90mm Nikon macro lenses. In my experience, Nikon bodies are just not as good at setting custom WB under reef lighting conditions as Canon is. I actually had to put a brown filter on my lense and then use spill over light from my fixture on my WB cards to get the custom setting to go over the standard range. It simply would not calibrate to the cards when they were held under water.
The Seabreeze pic was taken with that custom WB setting with no filters. However, my lights were on all blue spectrum and I’m sure that is the problem with capturing the proper colors. I will try to get a full spectrum shot of it today and we can compare ;)
 
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I attempted some DSLR shots in full spectrum and they still didn’t turn out right compared to the eye. So I tried several phone/filter combinations and came up with this shot. Single yellow filter, lights at 85% blue & 15% white. It’s probably the closest to what the eye sees.
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My buddy @coralbeauties banked this frag with me back in early October. It started encrusting and it’s getting some nice color. The skin is looking super healthy too. It’s only in about 270 PAR right now. Will probably move him up to 325 next week...

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Vivid Insanity

My buddy @coralbeauties banked this frag with me back in early October. It started encrusting and it’s getting some nice color. The skin is looking super healthy too. It’s only in about 270 PAR right now. Will probably move him up to 325 next week...

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Looks great Jesse. Looking happier then mine:)
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This is one that I really can’t get a good shot of, with the DSLR. For some reason I can’t capture the colors that the eye sees without doing major photoshopping. Which I don’t like to do. So I’ve put a DSLR shot with an iPhone 11 Pro shot with orange and yellow filters to show the difference.

CC Disney jr
Purchased exactly 1 year ago. I have taken 2 frags from it. So it’s kind of a slow grower for me.

DSLR SHOT
F606A9A1-7A4A-4799-BF4B-E180CEDA0D07.jpeg


IPhone shot. This is actually what your eye sees while the blues are on. I just can’t get those colors or “pop” with the DSLR.
A71DC504-86DA-41C3-B337-C4B07C29DA56.jpeg
Not the fastest grower for me either. How much par are you giving her? I get some crazy colors on mine with 450 par but I also use a much whiter spectrum than most
1C538233-6178-4567-9D18-1B088E7E5887.jpeg
Here’s mine sitting right at 400 par
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