Orange-spotted Pipefish

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David Novo

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I have been struggling with making the pipefish below look consistent (the color of the posterior section of the fish is different from the anterior). Any ideas?

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To me this looks quite natural. The only thing that might distort the colours is more light from the strobes on the posterior portion - picking up the reds better. But - the subject appears parallel to the sensor plane and evenly lit so my first inclination if I saw this come out of my camera would be that the fish is actually that colour?? All I can suggest is reducing ambient exposure and trying again. I can't see anything you could do post processing wise without the risk of introducing colour casts where you don't want them.
 
I have been struggling with making the pipefish below look consistent (the color of the posterior section of the fish is different from the anterior). Any ideas?

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Did you apply a gradient filter to the picture, to tone down a lot of exposure in the lower right versus less in the upper left?
 
To me this looks quite natural. The only thing that might distort the colours is more light from the strobes on the posterior portion - picking up the reds better. But - the subject appears parallel to the sensor plane and evenly lit so my first inclination if I saw this come out of my camera would be that the fish is actually that colour?? All I can suggest is reducing ambient exposure and trying again. I can't see anything you could do post processing wise without the risk of introducing colour casts where you don't want them.

Thanks.

Did you apply a gradient filter to the picture, to tone down a lot of exposure in the lower right versus less in the upper left?

No. :/
 

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