Wrath's Marans

[thistlewick]

a turquoise & red filter in lightroom:

want some navy blue eggs?

or we can just make them any color we want...

Maybe perhaps it's possible chickens are laying these eggs, but it's TOO easy to just manipulate an image.

 

[thistlewick]

Is your avi one of your illustrations? If so, it's lovely! (Well, if not, it's lovely anyway, but you know what I mean.)

Did you study art, or is this something you've learned on your own?

No, it's an AI generated image, but I have been an illustrator, I could have done it - I am just super lazy, I swapped from drawing and painting to photography about 15 years ago and I've even stopped doing photography.

I'm happy to use my subscription to Midjourney to make an avi for anyone who would like one, I can make it very customized. Midjourney is a paid AI tool and a very good one.

 

[ChaosMom]

Ahh, that's wonderful that you were an illustrator! Probably 2/3 of the children's books that I bought when mine were young (born in the 1980's) were chosen for the illustrations.

One of my favorites, and now I've read it to my two grandsons as well:

 

[TexasBlues]

You guys are right it’s so easy to adjust the settings on a photo to completely change the colors in the shades.
That said I do not doubt that they have amazing eggs. I just wanted to point out that most of the egg sellers take pictures that are darker and more saturated in color Than they are in real life. With a photo taken a direct sunlight there’s there’s no way to hide.

 

[wrathsfarm]

You guys are right it’s so easy to adjust the settings on a photo to completely change the colors in the shades.
That said I do not doubt that they have amazing eggs. I just wanted to point out that most of the egg sellers take pictures that are darker and more saturated in color Than they are in real life. With a photo taken a direct sunlight there’s there’s no way to hide.

I took a look at the page. Everything is colorful and vivid. Eggs, vegetables, flowers, etc

 

[TexasBlues]

I spent 3 minutes picking pictures off of FB of people making the eggs look darker than they really are.

 

[Island Coppers]

Most cameras have automatic exposure adjustments. If you want Marans eggs to look darker take the photo with a white background. If the background for any picture is the opposite on the color spectrum it will punch up that color. For example, a green background will make any red color look more vivid. When you see a white background that looks somewhat grey, the camera has automatically under exposed the shot making it look darker. The color of the light source makes all the difference, daylight is the most honest I think. The other thing about Marans eggs is that they get darker as they age, so it's too easy to fudge the photos.

 

[TexasBlues]

Most cameras have automatic exposure adjustments. If you want Marans eggs to look darker take the photo with a white background. If the background for any picture is the opposite on the color spectrum it will punch up that color. For example, a green background will make any red color look more vivid. When you see a white background that looks somewhat grey, the camera has automatically under exposed the shot making it look darker. The color of the light source makes all the difference, daylight is the most honest I think. The other thing about Marans eggs is that get darker as they age, so it's too easy to fudge the photos.

You’re exactly right.

 

[wrathsfarm]

I'll take some multiple pics and see what they do...

 

[Island Coppers]

wrathsfarm​

Try using a blue background in daylight. Blue is the higher energy end of the spectrum and the camera's automatic adjustment will make the picture darker and bias it toward warm brown