Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: four_by_ken on December 27, 2013, 04:35:20 PM
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I have always doubted a lot of the fish pictures I see on the internet... but lately I am a skeptic on anything that looks good.
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Too easy to correct faults with computers. Every picture I take is untouched. (other than cropping them)
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Agreed. Most pictures I see on my search I take with a grain of salt, some are more obviously doctored up. I'm glad to hear you don't mess with yours. I've seen too many ruby red peacocks so red that they have a red aura around them.
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Heck, 90% of mine are taken with a cell phone. ;D
The other thing that people dont always remember is that so many of the pictures are taken when the fish are in breeding color too. 1-3 days of the month they look like that.
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Are you suggesting that you'd prefer to see pictures of fish that aren't colored up instead? :P
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OH Man, I agree with you. There are a lot of misleading pics on the net. (if it;s on the internet.. It must be true!) lol
One thing that I found out a later date was that a flash will show different colors on a fish at times. So it's best to take a photo with lights on in the tank, at night and with a slow shutter speed. although you may not the most crisp photo ever, you'll still get a more accurate depection of the fishes actualy visible color.
The only thing that I've ever felt okay with doing to a photo was increasing the brightness of it and cropping it. Sometimes theres just not enough light in the photo for some reason but it's still a good photo. But that's on a rare occassion anyhow as I've learned to not take photos of fish that at the end of the tank. I use shorter lights than the tank on most of my tanks. Center of the tank has the most light.
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How about this one... realistic representation of the fish?
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this about sums it up for photoshop