Pico "Melody" by Redsea is alive!!! (pics fixed!)

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dragon79

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Sugar Magnolia said:
If Ron doesn't get to you this weekend, try posting the pic again next week. His 'puter is down according to his sticky post in his forum, and as he mentioned in it...he reserves the right to not answer questions posted while he's away.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthrea ... did=509466
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oh that so sucks! I read that info, but it does say Saturday it should be back up sometime, hopefully it may not get buried and also maybe somebody else may see it and help. I also may try to reply to it, to make it jump to the top again on Monday. Thanks for extra info Sugar.
 
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dragon79

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incysor said:
Steven,

Are you adjusting your camera's white balance when you take pics? The reason I ask is that all the pics of the 2.5g while very sharp seem to have a blue cast to them, which I assume is from the lights.

Looking at the anemones I was wondering how true the pics are to their actual color, and if that would make it any easier to identify.

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Your assumption is correct, it's getting the blue color from the lights itself, as no other lights are on when I get home. I could use flash, and blast it to show actual color as opposed to what it's getting from the lights. But when I look at it, small as it is......it does come to looking the same. I'll take a flash shot and compare.

As far as changing the white balance, I haven't it's on the regular setting. There is an option to change the balance around, I've done it once in custom mode and had it take day pictures with a blue tint to it.....came out cool. I'll play with the settings some more and take some different shots, whatever I can do can only help right? See ya.
 
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incysor

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dragon79 said:
Your assumption is correct, it's getting the blue color from the lights itself, as no other lights are on when I get home. I could use flash, and blast it to show actual color as opposed to what it's getting from the lights. But when I look at it, small as it is......it does come to looking the same. I'll take a flash shot and compare.

As far as changing the white balance, I haven't it's on the regular setting. There is an option to change the balance around, I've done it once in custom mode and had it take day pictures with a blue tint to it.....came out cool. I'll play with the settings some more and take some different shots, whatever I can do can only help right? See ya.
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I looked up the manual for your camera, and found it here:
http://www.nikon.com.sg/CATALOG/E8700_UserManual.pdf

On page 78 it tells you how to manually set the white balance by pointing it at the sand and hitting the appropriate buttons. That should get rid of the blue cast, and get your colors closer to true. You'll probably need to be shooting either M, (for manual), mode. Basically you should adjust your white balance for each tank you take pics of, because the lights will be different on each one. Usually I can set my WB by pointing it at the sandbed and clicking the appropriate buttons. What you're doing is telling the camera that under this lighting, this area should be white. It then adjusts it's sensors accordingly. This can be done by taking a white card and pointing the camera at it, say if you were shooting a pic of someone at night in a parking lot. But in the case of our tanks, there's usually a white sandbed handy.

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mikeguerrero

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Incysor,

Your are truly buff, man I really dig the way we ask you a question and within literally minutes you reply, now I see you looking up solutions for others by examining manuals on the internet. :D

Truly amazing, thanks dude....

Mike

p.s

If you need a spanish translator dragon or I can help.... and please don't tell me you also know Spanish :shock:
 
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dragon79

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incysor said:
I looked up the manual for your camera, and found it here:
http://www.nikon.com.sg/CATALOG/E8700_UserManual.pdf

On page 78 it tells you how to manually set the white balance by pointing it at the sand and hitting the appropriate buttons. That should get rid of the blue cast, and get your colors closer to true. You'll probably need to be shooting either M, (for manual), mode. Basically you should adjust your white balance for each tank you take pics of, because the lights will be different on each one. Usually I can set my WB by pointing it at the sandbed and clicking the appropriate buttons. What you're doing is telling the camera that under this lighting, this area should be white. It then adjusts it's sensors accordingly. This can be done by taking a white card and pointing the camera at it, say if you were shooting a pic of someone at night in a parking lot. But in the case of our tanks, there's usually a white sandbed handy.



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Yeah I read that too, on page 76 it talks about presets. I use those and it does that work for me. you can change the increments from +3 thru -3 the postivite numbers are a bluish tint (such as doing it manually or choosing "flouresent") negative numbers go to a yellowish color such as doing it manually or choosing "incandecent" or just straight using "auto" it automatically configures itself toward what's best suited. I'll try using each preset, also take one in auto, and also one with me manually adjusting preset as you stated it says in page 78. I'll see what I can do tonight with it. Adios.
 
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dragon79

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I got RC repsonses

Although I got some new feedback, the last post came from the Dr. himself, but had this to say....

"Hi,

The tentacle pattern, proportionality, and posture is indicative of a zoanthid. I think you are safe with this one.




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Cheers, Ron

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I wrote back to see if he was sure because I mentioned the new behavior of it moving around the tank where it finds a strong light source. I'll see what he says back...
 
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djconn

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Have you seen the replies yet? Looks like it is indeed an anemone! I think it looks really cool.
 
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dragon79

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dj

djconn said:
Have you seen the replies yet? Looks like it is indeed an anemone! I think it looks really cool.
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This is the final one I got from Dr. Ron

"Hi Steven,

Nice images! THANKS!!!

Well, now. It is an anemone. It doesn't look too much like the standard "majano." I don't think it is that particular pest anemone. It may well be a different small species that in some tanks could become a pest.

At this stage, I can tell you I can't identify it, so I can't really help a lot. If this were in my tank, I would let it be an watch it. If it began to reproduce a lot, I would remove it and its clones at that time.

Sorry not to be more definitive.


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Cheers, Ron

"There is grandeur in this view of life, …from so simple a beginning endless forms beautiful and wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." C. Darwin, 1859, “The Origin of Species."
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So DJ: this is a unidentifiable anemone, who wants one? lol J/P. Well so far there are two, I'll see if I begin to see double over the next couple of weeks.
 
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