GlennF's 300 gallon mixed reef.
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A few critical readers broached the subject that many posted photo looked unnatural and exaggerated and drew the conclusion that it couldn't be otherwise that they must have been post-processed with photoshop or lightroom.
In short, no photos are post-processed because it is a time-consuming and inefficient way of posting. Moreover, it often misrepresents reality.
Here, the problems are tackled differently.
- It starts with getting the most out of the lighting, so that the result (growth and colour) is also satisfactory to the eye.
- Then we set up this lighting for the camera so that it can do something with it directly.
- Because we use a predominantly blue spectrum in marine aquaria, every photo will be blue. That's why we set the white balance correction to 10K Kelvin.
By carrying out the above steps properly, you basically don't have to edit all photos afterwards to get a decent result. This will save you from boring operations and you won't be tempted to overdo things either.
Here you can see what you can achieve with the right lighting, camera setting (2sec) and direct posting(5sec). It doesn't get any more effective than this with post-processing all the photos
Fishes are an indispensable part of our aquarium ecosystem. They are part of it and you want to enjoy the colourful splendour of these fish both live and on camera. That doesn't work under tight blue light. You can also see from the colours of these fish that there has been no messing around with photo editing programmes and filters.
In the first photo, the exposure is set slightly darker on camera. Not excessive but just to reduce the haze/reflection of the lights on the frontscreen.
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
In short, no photos are post-processed because it is a time-consuming and inefficient way of posting. Moreover, it often misrepresents reality.
Here, the problems are tackled differently.
- It starts with getting the most out of the lighting, so that the result (growth and colour) is also satisfactory to the eye.
- Then we set up this lighting for the camera so that it can do something with it directly.
- Because we use a predominantly blue spectrum in marine aquaria, every photo will be blue. That's why we set the white balance correction to 10K Kelvin.
By carrying out the above steps properly, you basically don't have to edit all photos afterwards to get a decent result. This will save you from boring operations and you won't be tempted to overdo things either.
Here you can see what you can achieve with the right lighting, camera setting (2sec) and direct posting(5sec). It doesn't get any more effective than this with post-processing all the photos
Fishes are an indispensable part of our aquarium ecosystem. They are part of it and you want to enjoy the colourful splendour of these fish both live and on camera. That doesn't work under tight blue light. You can also see from the colours of these fish that there has been no messing around with photo editing programmes and filters.
In the first photo, the exposure is set slightly darker on camera. Not excessive but just to reduce the haze/reflection of the lights on the frontscreen.
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
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The Treef1200- New update
Everything is going just fine. Some large colonies has been removed to make space.
This tank is running on TRC for 16 months now
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https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
Everything is going just fine. Some large colonies has been removed to make space.
This tank is running on TRC for 16 months now
[URL unfurl="true"]https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome[/URL]
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
People nowadays are more about highly overprices and hyped corals under overexposed blue light and orange filters.
I like all corals, because keeping a wide variaty is the greatest challenge of all.
The challenge includes choosing the right nutrients levels and type of lighting.
It's a very light cladiella, depending on conditions it can show green polyps
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
I like all corals, because keeping a wide variaty is the greatest challenge of all.
The challenge includes choosing the right nutrients levels and type of lighting.
It's a very light cladiella, depending on conditions it can show green polyps
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
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In de 90's i was still into malawi ciclides.
My saltwater adventure started in 2004. So you may say I had the luxury of starting with a broad spectrum of affordable and relative modern technology like skimmers, calcium reactors and the early days of chemicals adjustments.
Due to modern day reefkeeping methods we now can succesfully grow many species we couldn't keep alive before.
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
My saltwater adventure started in 2004. So you may say I had the luxury of starting with a broad spectrum of affordable and relative modern technology like skimmers, calcium reactors and the early days of chemicals adjustments.
Due to modern day reefkeeping methods we now can succesfully grow many species we couldn't keep alive before.
https://youtube.com/user/glennfhome
