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05-15-2008, 07:59 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Utah
Posts: 73
|  Whats the secret?? What is the secret to taking good pics of your fish and various other things in your tank..... All my pics turn out like garbage.
__________________ 2gal betta (Jimi Hendrix III) 30gal 1 common pleco, 1 serpae tetra, 2 24 karat gold platies , 3 painted platies, 2 tiger barbs |
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05-15-2008, 10:32 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,242
| I'm not sure if you have read through this post yet, but cichlidman has a pretty good stickied post in the FW rate my tank forum that gives a lot of good info on how to take a good picture. Aquatic Photography: A Personal Experience Personally for closer up pictures of my fish I will have the flash on and put my camera on micro mode (looks like a picture of a flower on my kodak cam) so it will try to focus on closer up objects. Then I will get as close as I can with the fish still in focus and take the picture. You want to make sure that you have your camera at a downward angle so the flash doesn't reflect off the glass right back into your camera's lens. Once you get a few pictures, put them on your computer and see which ones actually look good on there. This is where you can do a little bit of editing (nobody has to know  ). I mentioned before to get as close as you can with the fish still in focus, this doesn't have to be as close as you want your picture to look though. With digital cameras producing much higher quality pictures these days, you should be able to crop the picture down to just the fish and it will appear to be a close up shot of the fish and still be a very clear picture. This has been the trick I have used to get good shots of my fish. Here are a couple examples below of the original shot followed by the cropped version of that same shot.   
__________________  10 gal planted tank (click for my journal) Plants: Wisteria, anacharis, java fern, java moss, cryptocoryne lutea and red wendtii Fish: 2 German Blue Rams, 2 Neon Tetras, 2 Cardinal Tetras, and 2 Otocinclus Vittatus 10g Native (click for journal) 1 Baby Sunfish (unknown species), 1 Johnny Darter, 1 Blacknose Dace, 1 Yellow Bullhead Catfish 75 gal native tank coming soon |
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05-15-2008, 05:54 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Arizona
Posts: 936
| 1. Tilt the camera downwards 2. Use flash (unless you have a fish that hates that, my swords love it, dumb fish...) For the ultimate experience: Buy a Nikon Coolpix 4800 and use the close-up feature. Dang, I love that thing! 
__________________ 20g 1 Betta - Finfin (m) 3 Swordtails - Starlet (f), Smrt (f), and Neo (m) 4 Peppered Cories - Hobbes (f), Wasabi (m), Mini1+2 (?) 2 Black Neon Tetras - bleh, they're just tetras6.6g 3 Sword Fry - born Apr. 29 to Starlet 1 Sword Fry 1 Unidentified Snail - Snail (?) 5g 1 Dwarf Puffer - Weebo (f) 2 Otos - Gabi (?) and Sonja (?) Mini Habitat Empty |
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05-15-2008, 07:20 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gibsonburg, OH
Posts: 1,466
| I think that lighting is key to getting good shots. I hate to use the flash because it washes out the colors of both the fish and the tank. I turn all of the lights in the house off, so that just the tank light is on. Then I turn the flash off on the camera. Pictures turn out really crisp and bright, which reflects exactly how the tank looks in person. It also helps to use a tripod because then you don't have to worry about your arms shaking or anything.
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