why top downs ?

[lobsterboy]

could it be all in our heads...?

by this I mean, we get used to seeing our tanks on a daily basis and we get used to what we see as for color, but then you change the view and it looks tottally different something we dont see that often.

But I think its more on the right track of, the light is hitting the coral right on the top of the colony, and giving it more color and more energy.
I had to test this out, so I just fragged a piece of my green slimer, when i was holding it in the tank and rotated it, it looked like it had much more color.

[BlueAbyss]

I'm thinking also that the angle that the light hits it may affect the color also... when my green palys are in the center of the tank (light from directly above) they look bleached out unless they are on the sandbed (like they are reflecting or 'mirroring' the light). They look vibrant green and pink/purple when they are up on the rockwork near the sides of the tank, so it may have to do with reflection(?) within the coral's tissues also. I just noticed this today when I moved them to fill some space (never noticed the purple tones before).

[lastlight]

I don't have a theory but I will say I prefer your stylo head-on 100x. I've always preferred FTS over all the top-down coral pics.