Color Tweakers

[Kevin S.]

I've noticed a few people posting corns for sale lately with obviously tweaked photographs (cranking the saturation up on okeetees especially). It's one thing to adjust brightness a bit to compensate for a dark exposure or the flash washing a snake out, but this just seems like blatant misrepresentation to me-especially considering the lack of subtlety that makes some of them look neon. Just wondering if anyone else had noticed the ads I'm talking about and if you think they might fool anyone into expecting unrealistically colorful corns?

 

[Pugsley]

I'm sorry to say, unless they pick a really obvious wrong color, I'd not know that it had happened.

 

[yojoe05]

I'd have to agree with Pugsley, unless its obvious where it created lines in the photo somewhere else or the colors were just extreme I wouldn't even be able to tell.

 

[diamondlil]

Gorgeous snake! I do love the effect of the famous 'blue bowl' on the reds and oranges, but that's as far as I go on enhancing my own photos. Trying different lighting to replicate what I actually see in real life means I might show several images of the same snake. And that's it. I'm no digital whizz and don't plan to try to be one. If I was in the market for buying, I'd want to see multiple images of the same snake if I suspected photographic chicanery........
For example, this little RO keeper really is this eye-popping. Makes me catch my breath with how intense his colours are. So if I cheated on the colour saturation, I'd only be fooling myself! When he's a bit bigger and less flighty I'll see if I can do blue bowl pics of him, but he's so bright he already looks like I've hand-painted him!