No, in retrospect the first picture does look modified. Another thing to remember is that a lot of decent coral pics are blown up representations of the actual piece. Because they are literally larger than life our eyes perceive them to be more colorful than the actual coral in real life. This is an optical illusion, and one reason why people often remark that a coral they bought online must have been photoshopped because it looks nothing like the picture once in their tank.
When you blow up a photo it pixelates out. It dosent gain super colors LOL!
Also people complain it dosent look the same more times than not because of either heavy actinic over the coral when the photo was taken for thier web site, or They dont relize corals will look different in there tank if the lighting is not the same wattage, bulb type, or kelvin.
Then there are those shops that do photo shop, but they are far and few between anymore. Most of them just use HEAVY actinic and use the flash on a low setting when they snap the pic.
Which is not realy as bad as photo shopping bacause the flash washes alot of the blue away and the glow.
It is still a litle deceatfull though. (you can usualy spot them right off the bat too, if the substrate looks a little to bright or the rest of the pic is darker)
I am not reffering to any photo's in this thread. Only those that do it and represent the photo as somthing for sale. Or steal pics to sell it.
Which recently happened to me!!! LOL! ( I found some one using my pic on ebay and there store front. TWO PEOPLE actualy. One was simply a miss understanding but the other is down right THEFT)
Also people complain it dosent look the same more times than not because of either heavy actinic over the coral when the photo was taken for thier web site, or They dont relize corals will look different in there tank if the lighting is not the same wattage, bulb type, or kelvin.
Then there are those shops that do photo shop, but they are far and few between anymore. Most of them just use HEAVY actinic and use the flash on a low setting when they snap the pic.
Which is not realy as bad as photo shopping bacause the flash washes alot of the blue away and the glow.
It is still a litle deceatfull though. (you can usualy spot them right off the bat too, if the substrate looks a little to bright or the rest of the pic is darker)
I am not reffering to any photo's in this thread. Only those that do it and represent the photo as somthing for sale. Or steal pics to sell it.
Which recently happened to me!!! LOL! ( I found some one using my pic on ebay and there store front. TWO PEOPLE actualy. One was simply a miss understanding but the other is down right THEFT)
No, you misunderstood me. I didn't mean blow the picture up...of course that would cause pixelation. With the pixelation proportional to the amount the photo was blown up. What I meant was that the picture was LARGER than the original coral. Say I take a high def photo of a red poker chip at 400 pixels, and displayed it next to the same photo at 1200 pixels. Even though the object was the same size, the eye will tend to believe that the 1200 pixel photo had more color just because physically in the photo there is more color. This is an advertising trick that has been used for decades. For example, view the photos below and tell me which one appears to be the most colorful.
They are an identical photo the only difference is the size...but the fourth one appears more colorful just because it fills more of the viewers eye.
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