Healthy Big vs Skinny Orange Sea Star Comparison

[EmilyB]

WOW Rich

You guys are going to shame me into figuring out my camera....

[Delphinus]

You guys are going to shame me into one day BUYING a camera...

I tried taking a panorama last night with my wussy 1.0Mp A50 from like .. I don't know ... 1960 or something. It turned out horrible. Might be worth something as a Picasso knockoff though. ... Gonna try again tonight maybe. But man I wish I had something different ....

PS. Sam, what do these orange stars eat? Are they as fussy as the other linckia's? They look similar to linckias. I'm not sure I'm going to try another linckia until I have a much bigger tank, my burgundy linckia didn't seem to do well in my 72g.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Samw

See, I still have a lot to learn. Thanks Rich. I'll make white balance the next feature to learn on my camera. Steve, I have started using the Autolevel option on my photo software lately. Is that what you mean? I'll try posting pics with and without Autoleveling and compare later. Other than that I don't do any white balancing with my software as far as I can see.

ya I am still sort of a auto level junkie, but it does some funly things.. when it does a auto level it picks what it thinks should be white and then bases the color off that for everything else so if your white is a little on the blue side all the other colors are going to be skewed also.

I find if you use a proper white balance on your camera you will get more "Proper" colors out of the camera instead of the "blue aura" so many of our pics have.

Steve

[Samw]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

PS. Sam, what do these orange stars eat? Are they as fussy as the other linckia's? They look similar to linckias. I'm not sure I'm going to try another linckia until I have a much bigger tank, my burgundy linckia didn't seem to do well in my 72g.

Yes, they can easily be mistaken as Linkias as the author of the link above also states.

I don't target feed them and I've never watched them eat anything. They crawl on the glass a lot so they must be eating the film of algae. They seem easier to keep than Linkias and Fromias. I haven't been able to keep Linkias and Fromias alive for any length of time. Whereas with these, the first one I've had for 5 months so far and the other for 4 so far and they don't show any signs of rotting.

[sumpfinfishe]

Sam,
It's too bad your not going to be there on Sunday or I could have given you a quick lesson on white balance, and then you could have given me a quick one on macro's

Drop me a line if Seth can't make it, otherwise I'll let him pry it out of my hands