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how to photograph extremely colorful fish?

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PHXAZCRAIG
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how to photograph extremely colorful fish?
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Actually, both photography technique and post processing.

I'm having issues getting a representative shot of certain fish, because they are highly colorful and over-saturate the camera sensor, apparently.

Here's an example - what can be done to photograph this species and get the result to look accurate?

In the example above, the purple/blue isn't far off, but toning down the brightness lost all the color in the yellow tail.

I've not done very sophisticated post processing here, just played with brightness, contrast, highlights and shadow sliders in Lightroom.   I suspect I'll need to play with tone curves.

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