Best shot yet of tricolor anthias

[Anonymous]

I actually got this with running with the flash. Saturated the colors just a tiny bit in PS, which also dropped out the last of the background.

 

[Anonymous]

John, what do you think about photoshoping pictures and the affect it has on the "reality" of the shot?

I see some major photoshoping in the studio at work...they put two people together were in seperate pictures, into a scene they were never near, wearing different color cloths, and basically make an ad out of pieces of other pictures....close enough for ad work, but don't you think photoshopped pictures have less artistic value than pictures that are unaltered?



Nice shot as always BTW.

Lets see some more shots of your coral beauty. :wink: :lol:

 

[Wampatom]

This is a beautiful shot. The colors are great and the whole fish is in focus. This almost never happens to me. Did you use flash or aquarium lighting?

Here is my view on photoshopping a picture. For photojournalism and scientific documentation, nothing but cropping and adjusting levels and contrast. For fish and corals, adjust anything so long as the end result matches what I have “seen”. I don’t enjoy seeing unnatural colors. I feel justified in increasing saturation to correct for the weaknesses of the camera. Here is where I am guilty, when the camera unnaturally enhances or distorts colors, I tend to leave them rather than de-saturating them. For ads, posters, and pictures that the viewer knows are unnatural—anything goes.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm with wampatom, for the most part. I rarely do anything to my shots other than balancing the levels, sometimes adding some saturation to match what I see with my own eyes, and sometimes some unsharp mask to try and remove some motion blur or something. Admittedly, I've been guilty of 'garfing' a couple of shots, mostly early on in my photographic exploits, but I rarely do that any more. I find that if I saturate the photo too much, it starts losing a lot of clarity and detail definition.

 

[Anonymous]

Lets see some more shots of your coral beauty. :wink: :lol:

Howzis?

I'll see what I can dig up of that other coral beauty. ;-)

 

[ozadars]

thats a great shot John!
Why didnt you changed the anthias' eye color into black, IMO this blue color made the pic a bit blurry looking

 

[Anonymous]

Good question Selim. I didn't even notice the bluish tint to the eye. Usually they're a pretty cool faceted blue/green color. Might have to PS this one to black and see if it looks better!