HIgh End Pack + Beginner Pack

ronnie · May 22, 2015

Email sent on the first pack plus a couple in the second pack.

ifarmer · May 22, 2015

these are clearly with post enhancement. I do edit photo from time to times so I know.
why not show us a photo of the corals taking with your phone camera.

TCK Corals · May 23, 2015

ifarmer said:
these are clearly with post enhancement. I do edit photo from time to times so I know.
why not show us a photo of the corals taking with your phone camera.

We are willing to take cell pics for anyone who requests them. Just shoot us a PM. A lot of packs end up getting a cell pic prior to shipping them out to the buyer.

As far as post enhancement goes, yes we do clean our photos up, crop them, resize them, color/white balance them. When we shoot in RAW, we use Adobe Photoshop CC built in RAW editor (the window that pops up when you open a RAW photo, to white balance.

We don't run an abundance of white lighting over our systems, so getting that "sunlight" look is a bit impossible. I suppose we could have more daylight tubes on hand, just for photos, but moving SPS corals around for a photographs is enough stress on them already (blasting them with 8 daylights wouldn't be ideal)

We've tried using the cameras built in white balance adjustments, and some of the corals just look plain weird when shifted to a warmer temperature.

Here are two more versions of the high end pack:

Verson 1, is pretty much true to the eye. You can see the black eggcrate underneath the frags reflecting the blue lighting from our t5s

Verson 2 is after the "saturation" slider has been moved all the way to the right

Version 3 is just Ebay Style ULTRA!

FoD · May 23, 2015

I'll take the eBay Style ULTRA version please!

oscarcolino · May 23, 2015

Hi I'm new in sps I only have some montiporas and bird nest do you recommend the beginner pack or I should get some easier ones first thank u

TCK Corals · May 23, 2015

oscarcolino said:
Hi I'm new in sps I only have some montiporas and bird nest do you recommend the beginner pack or I should get some easier ones first thank u

The acropora in the beginner pack are extremely forgiving, and generally known as "easier" to keep as far as acros go

If you montipora and birdnest corals are doing well, these beginner acros would definitely be great "testers"

We'd also be happy to send a couple freebies if you are willing to pay for shipping, so you can try a couple out. Shoot us a PM