Macro - 1st HM

War Coral

Corals have pigments that fluoresce under blue wavelengths of light which reduces the energy content of the light.  This is a species of Favites that is flourishing in my reef tank. The LED lights in my tank are full spectrum, but biased with blue/violet portion of the spectrum.  I adjusted the white balance in Lightroom to get the colors as close to what my eyes are able to discern for natural color and used a light profile generated with a Spyder Colorcheckr 24.  I also under-exposed the photos to reduce the hot areas in the center of each polyp. I need to continue to work on this type of image as I am not totally satisfied about the results. K5 IIs 180 mm f3.5 (1/13 sec at f10, ISO 400)  17 image stack PMAX retouched for ghosts and cropped for comp....................................Jim