Can you imagine a LFS like this?

naesco · #1 03-12-2009, 01:26 AM

I am far far from being an expert but the fact that there are angels in SPS tanks at a 'leading' LFS leads me to believe that these are 'photo shopped'
Can someone tell?

brizzo · #2 03-12-2009, 01:40 AM

Wow .. now that's fish porn ..

Trigger Man · #3 03-12-2009, 01:59 AM

All those corals, I'd probably leave without a kidney, arm, foot etc, anything they would take for corals.

Snappy · #4 03-12-2009, 03:20 AM

I guess it's ok....you know if you like corals & that sort of thing.

That is one sweet set up.

fishoholic · #5 03-12-2009, 03:28 AM

WOW!

Naked Wookie · #6 03-12-2009, 03:41 AM

def shop the angels have a whiteish edge around them and doesn't look as well blended, the chromis on the other hand looks legit to me.
edges are to sharp/jagged like someone cut them and you can see tiny bit of jpeg compression that and resized the one, especially the ones layered on top of each other needed to blur and soften edges into the background to make it seem little realistic

GreenSpottedPuffer · #7 03-12-2009, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Naked Wookie

def shop the angels have a whiteish edge around them and doesn't look as well blended, the chromis on the other hand looks legit to me.
edges are to sharp/jagged like someone cut them and you can see tiny bit of jpeg compression that and resized the one, especially the ones layered on top of each other needed to blur and soften edges into the background to make it seem little realistic

Always has to be someone...

I was going to ask your experience with photoshop but then realized if you had any, you would understand where the halos/artifacts come from and it has nothing to do with the pics being altered.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #8 03-12-2009, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by naesco

I am far far from being an expert but the fact that there are angels in SPS tanks at a 'leading' LFS leads me to believe that these are 'photo shopped'
Can someone tell?

No apparently they just do keep them in the tank. Not photoshopped at all. This is the real deal. I have heard about it for a while now but only finally seeing pics because they are finally open to the public.

Someone asked about the angels in the thread. Not sure what the answer was though.