Show me your sps master piece - Page 4

Piper27 · 04/30/2014, 09:34 AM

1mbrews8 thoes are nice but they are technically other people's masterpieces! Just kidding, would like to see them when they are grown as well. The wwc piece with yellow polyps looks like it could be pretty cool.

1mbrews8 · 04/30/2014, 10:28 AM

oops!

) Didn't know the "your" meant "my own" and not just one we owned.. lol!

Piper27 · 04/30/2014, 11:12 AM

I am sure the op didn't mean that, I was just playing around.
Personally I have always found it rewarding to be able to buy wild stuff and have a "Brown" acro turn into a beautiful, "one of a kind" piece. The whole process of making sure they are clean and healthy, all the way to the finding the right lighting they like to get the true colors to come out.
Buying the named pieces has its perks, and my tank might not have a ton of crazy colored stuff in it, but I am definatly more happy after putting in all the work.

ivan osornio · 04/30/2014, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

still a frag but very unique

This one can be a show piece !!!!!

ivan osornio · 04/30/2014, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piper27

I am sure the op didn't mean that, I was just playing around.
Personally I have always found it rewarding to be able to buy wild stuff and have a "Brown" acro turn into a beautiful, "one of a kind" piece. The whole process of making sure they are clean and healthy, all the way to the finding the right lighting they like to get the true colors to come out.
Buying the named pieces has its perks, and my tank might not have a ton of crazy colored stuff in it, but I am definatly more happy after putting in all the work.

100% true
but sometimes you want to get some aquaculture or tank raise to show the wife the colors so she can forget you for paying big$$$ for it

tripdad · 04/30/2014, 02:02 PM

Ryanrid, that looks a lot like a frag I got off the $20.00 rack at my LFS. Was whitish flesh withe grey/ purple tips. Turned into a Myagi tort. Sometimes the best part is seeing what they become.

ryanrid · 04/30/2014, 06:12 PM

this peice is more red than the photo show, here is a pic i took, got it free from a collector brown and he asked to take it back to for a photo in his holding tank once he saw in tank, here is a pic i took a month back (im crap photographer)

my brother also has a peice for safe keeping sahin

ivan osornio · 04/30/2014, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

this peice is more red than the photo show, here is a pic i took, got it free from a collector brown and he asked to take it back to for a photo in his holding tank once he saw in tank, here is a pic i took a month back (im crap photographer)

my brother also has a peice for safe keeping sahin

Nice picture!!!

ivan osornio · 04/30/2014, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

still a frag but very unique

No disigners name or special whatever THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL CORAL.
I know there is more coral that we haven't seen some where on someones tank and we just need to find it

ivan osornio · 04/30/2014, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

this peice is more red than the photo show, here is a pic i took, got it free from a collector brown and he asked to take it back to for a photo in his holding tank once he saw in tank, here is a pic i took a month back (im crap photographer)

my brother also has a peice for safe keeping sahin

It's just me or this coral has yellow spots on it!!?
Or maybe flatworm bites!!?( I hope not )

trueblackpercula · 05/01/2014, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivan osornio

It's just me or this coral has yellow spots on it!!?
Or maybe flatworm bites!!?( I hope not )

Looks normal to me

Tweaked · 05/01/2014, 05:00 AM

Looks good from my house

ivan osornio · 05/01/2014, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trueblackpercula

Looks normal to me

I really hope that there no flatworms bites because having this markings it will make more unique

I blow out the picture with my iPhone and still see the yellow spots on it

rodneyri · 05/01/2014, 05:57 PM

Nope its normal, I have the mother colony which has the same yellow markings when you look closely.

ryanrid · 05/01/2014, 07:24 PM

how about the name cherry blossom for it?

Piper27 · 05/02/2014, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rodneyri

Nope its normal, I have the mother colony which has the same yellow markings when you look closely.

Got a picture?

ivan osornio · 05/02/2014, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rodneyri

Nope its normal, I have the mother colony which has the same yellow markings when you look closely.

Please post a picture I want to see it

porsche908 · 05/02/2014, 03:16 PM

Ladies and gentlemen, I been reading some of the post about this man's beautiful coral, I been a professional photographer since 1973 I have a masters's degree and a Cressman degree in photography, back in the day I had a big studio and we had a lab and process and printed our own photographs, There's all type of things you can do to enhance pictures. In this case I don't think so I have been doing professional videotaping for the last 25 years and have had video cameras coursing up to $25,000 that was back in the day now you can get a halfway decent video camera for around two or $3000 I looked at the Richards video ofhis tank and I don't see any Photoshop or video enhancement of this piece of coral, this is just my opinion, when you're photographing in your tank the blue light definitely tricks your camera and not giving a correct color it's called reciprocity failure this is when a camera cannot make out different colors due to different lighting situations. I don't see this in the photograph or the videotape. Richard you are a lucky man to have this piece, please make sure your perimeters or always correct so this piece will go on and on. Good luck Phil

sahin · 05/02/2014, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flamron

I haven't ever gotten an accurate photo from my iPhone because of the blue hue it causes.

So I guess that ones been iphoned, not photoshopped.

Quote:

Originally Posted by porsche908

Ladies and gentlemen, I been reading some of the post about this man's beautiful coral, I been a professional photographer since 1973 I have a masters's degree and a Cressman degree in photography, back in the day I had a big studio and we had a lab and process and printed our own photographs, There's all type of things you can do to enhance pictures. In this case I don't think so I have been doing professional videotaping for the last 25 years and have had video cameras coursing up to $25,000 that was back in the day now you can get a halfway decent video camera for around two or $3000 I looked at the Richards video ofhis tank and I don't see any Photoshop or video enhancement of this piece of coral, this is just my opinion, when you're photographing in your tank the blue light definitely tricks your camera and not giving a correct color it's called reciprocity failure this is when a camera cannot make out different colors due to different lighting situations. I don't see this in the photograph or the videotape. Richard you are a lucky man to have this piece, please make sure your perimeters or always correct so this piece will go on and on. Good luck Phil

Phil, thanks for your post explaining this. I am not way even close an experienced photographer as you are, but I've been taking fish tank photos and editing in various software for over 10 years, at first using PaintShop Pro etc and Photoshop for the past 9 years or so, and I couldnt detect any artificial enhancement either. Using Photoshop I can enhance the saturation or hue of individual colours whilst leaving the rest of a photo normal, without even using any of the advanced selection tools...

So anyone with even some basic Photoshop skills such as myself can tell when a photo has been enhanced.

The fact that anyone even thinks Richards photo may be enhanced or that the colours appear enhanced due to an artefact of using a camera phone is actually a testament to Richards skill as an SPS keeper.

FWIW most hobbyists dont go down this route...however, a good number of coral vendors do...

Besides, anyone artificially enhancing their coral photos beyond the real appearance are only cheating themselves.

sahin · 05/02/2014, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

my brother also has a peice for safe keeping sahin

Wow, that is just amazing. Seriously. Man, my tank is full...but this coral shot of your is sure making me feel like going Acro shopping for some nice pieces...

Bump for more Master Piece SPS!

ivan osornio · 05/03/2014, 06:14 AM

woow we are getting some nice pieces here.
Now I have a new must have list for my new tank

JN93 · 05/04/2014, 10:23 PM

There are defintely some insane colors on some of these sps pieces. very nice

Hentz · 05/04/2014, 10:26 PM

Before it RTN'ed

ivan osornio · 05/10/2014, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hentz

before it rtn'ed

you lost it?!!

ivan osornio · 05/15/2014, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

still a frag but very unique

How's your frag doing any updates ?
I will like to have a frag of that,if you ever frag it let me know !!

05/01/2014, 05:00 AM	#87
Tweaked FUP&A Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Madison, CT Posts: 7,722	Looks good from my house __________________ DSA 105 Pro, Cebu Sun-Radiums-M80 Ballasts, 4 T5's, XHO LEDs. Through Wall 55g Sump, 10g Frag and 29g Display attached, Vertex V6, 3 mp40's, Gyre, 2 mp10's, GFO, Carbon, Pellets - 10g Bar Tank

05/01/2014, 05:57 PM	#89
rodneyri Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 822	Nope its normal, I have the mother colony which has the same yellow markings when you look closely. __________________ Too poor starphire - 7ft Reef - Profilux 3 - GHL Doser 2 - Bubble King - RD3 Speedy - Vortech QD40 - Radion G4 Pro -P̵a̵c̵ ̵S̵u̵n̵ ̵

05/04/2014, 10:26 PM	#98
Hentz Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Posts: 2,016	Before it RTN'ed __________________ A Reef in the Desert: 120 Gallon (4x2x2) - MP40 x2 - Gyre 130 - ATI Sunpower - Simplicity Pump/Skimmer - Controlled by Apex

04/30/2014, 09:34 AM	#76
Piper27 I love bengals Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Manassas Virginia Posts: 2,512	1mbrews8 thoes are nice but they are technically other people's masterpieces! Just kidding, would like to see them when they are grown as well. The wwc piece with yellow polyps looks like it could be pretty cool.

04/30/2014, 10:28 AM	#77
1mbrews8 Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: forsyth, ga Posts: 209	oops! ) Didn't know the "your" meant "my own" and not just one we owned.. lol!

04/30/2014, 11:12 AM	#78
Piper27 I love bengals Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Manassas Virginia Posts: 2,512	I am sure the op didn't mean that, I was just playing around. Personally I have always found it rewarding to be able to buy wild stuff and have a "Brown" acro turn into a beautiful, "one of a kind" piece. The whole process of making sure they are clean and healthy, all the way to the finding the right lighting they like to get the true colors to come out. Buying the named pieces has its perks, and my tank might not have a ton of crazy colored stuff in it, but I am definatly more happy after putting in all the work.

04/30/2014, 02:02 PM	#81
tripdad Frustrated Stick Gardener Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: near chicago,Ill. Posts: 701	Ryanrid, that looks a lot like a frag I got off the $20.00 rack at my LFS. Was whitish flesh withe grey/ purple tips. Turned into a Myagi tort. Sometimes the best part is seeing what they become.

04/30/2014, 06:12 PM	#82
ryanrid Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: sydney australia Posts: 1,425	this peice is more red than the photo show, here is a pic i took, got it free from a collector brown and he asked to take it back to for a photo in his holding tank once he saw in tank, here is a pic i took a month back (im crap photographer) my brother also has a peice for safe keeping sahin

05/01/2014, 07:24 PM	#90
ryanrid Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: sydney australia Posts: 1,425	how about the name cherry blossom for it?

05/02/2014, 03:16 PM	#93
porsche908 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Kenner La Posts: 69	Ladies and gentlemen, I been reading some of the post about this man's beautiful coral, I been a professional photographer since 1973 I have a masters's degree and a Cressman degree in photography, back in the day I had a big studio and we had a lab and process and printed our own photographs, There's all type of things you can do to enhance pictures. In this case I don't think so I have been doing professional videotaping for the last 25 years and have had video cameras coursing up to $25,000 that was back in the day now you can get a halfway decent video camera for around two or $3000 I looked at the Richards video ofhis tank and I don't see any Photoshop or video enhancement of this piece of coral, this is just my opinion, when you're photographing in your tank the blue light definitely tricks your camera and not giving a correct color it's called reciprocity failure this is when a camera cannot make out different colors due to different lighting situations. I don't see this in the photograph or the videotape. Richard you are a lucky man to have this piece, please make sure your perimeters or always correct so this piece will go on and on. Good luck Phil

05/03/2014, 06:14 AM	#96
ivan osornio Moved On Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: alhambra ca. usa Posts: 312	woow we are getting some nice pieces here. Now I have a new must have list for my new tank

05/04/2014, 10:23 PM	#97
JN93 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 51	There are defintely some insane colors on some of these sps pieces. very nice