Photos of Guppys
Miguel
I did some first photos of Guppys
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/
Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.
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Russell D.
> Hello:
>
> I did some first photos of Guppys
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/
>
> Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.
>
OK, I'll bite. They are blurry pictures of pretty colored fish. Too
blurry to be of much interest.
Russell
Doug Jewell
> Hello:
> I did some first photos of Guppys
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/
> Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.
Taking photos of fish in an aquarium is not an easy task.
A couple of tips from someone who doesn't claim to be an
expert, but has taken a few OK fish photos.
1. Make sure the glass is spotlessly clean, inside and out.
2. Make sure your water is nice and clean. With my tanks, I
find the few days after a water change are about the best time.
3. Boost your lighting - put a couple of desklamps with 18W
CFL's or similar over top - get as much light as you can
into the tank. Maybe use side-lighting also.
4. Lift your ISO - bearing in mind that noise increases as
the ISO increases. With my Samsung GX10, 800 is about as
high as I can go while still retaining reasonable detail and
not a lot of noise.
5. Use a lens that can focus at a reasonably short distance.
6. Use manual focus, set the lens to a fairly short
distance, then focus by moving your body with the camera
back and forth.
7. Watch out for reflections. I find it best to shoot in a
completely black room except for the tank lights (which are
constrained by the hood). I don't use a flash, but if you
want to use one, be wary of relfections.
I decided to upload a few photos of my wet pets to my very
neglected flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdaj
Draco
I have to agree with Doug's thoughts and comments on the images. Your
autofocus seems to have focused on the glass of the aquarium instead
of the guppy's. So the subject isn't in focus. Secondly, if you are
going to shoot through glass do so at an angle to reduce and/or
eliminate reflections of the flash. I did not go into flicker to see
what your settings were or the type of camera you used. If it was a PS
then that could be one reason you didn't get the images you saw. If
you used a DSLR then you should try using manual focus and an off
camera flash.
Good luck and keep shooting. Learn by doing than by only reading.
Draco
C J Campbell
> Hello:
>
> I did some first photos of Guppys
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/
>
> Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.
I would go along with what Doug said as well. A macro lens or the macro
setting on your camera might help, too. Light falls off very quickly in
water, so you want a lot of light, but you do not want to see
reflections of the light in the glass.
It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years
ago:
http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black
It
is a salmon swimming up the creek in my yard. These salmon like very
shallow water; they will slide over wet rocks and even cross roads in
rainstorms.
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John McWilliams
> It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
> any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
> are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years ago:
>
<http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black>
Nice! I snooped through all the photos using the slide show function,
and quickly found you have duplicates of each and every one: some naming
convention or other, in that each photo has a version named as the
above, and also as:
<http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning-20Salmon-2019&bgcolor=black>
The top one was probably up loaded as, and the % get added to show the
space (top URL).
http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning 20Salmon
2019 bgcolor=black
A nice collection of shots, though.
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John McWilliams
tony cooper
I get a page with no images and instructions to download. Cutting off
the specifics after the "/" brings me to the album, and I can go from
there to Page 2 and the salmon.
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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
C J Campbell
> C J Campbell wrote:
>> It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
>> any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
>> are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years
>> ago:
>>
> <http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black>
Nice!
>
> I snooped through all the photos using the slide show function, and
> quickly found you have duplicates of each and every one: some naming
> convention or other, in that each photo has a version named as the
> above, and also as:
>
> <http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning-20Salmon-2019&bgcolor=black>
Yeah.
>
I was noticing that earlier. I have to fix that.
> A nice collection of shots, though.
Thanks.
C J Campbell
It
Okay, thanks. I may have to fiddle with it. Of course, with my web
writing ability, I will probably make it worse.
John McWilliams
tony-
Try the links in my post upstream a few, esp. the one with dashes (and
sans % or spaces.)
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john mcwilliams
Paul Furman
> C J Campbell wrote:
>> It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
>> any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when
>> you are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple
>> years ago:
>>
> <http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black>
>
>
>
> Nice! I snooped through all the photos using the slide show function,
> and quickly found you have duplicates of each and every one: some naming
> convention or other, in that each photo has a version named as the
> above, and also as:
>
> <http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning-20Salmon-2019&bgcolor=black>
This link works, the one above with percent signs does not, nor the one
below. There's a php function, I think it's htmlsafe() that fills in the
spaces but it's better to use underscores & avoid spaces.
> The top one was probably up loaded as, and the % get added to show the
> space (top URL).
> http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning 20Salmon
> 2019 bgcolor=black
>
> A nice collection of shots, though.
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tony cooper
Oh, I got to his full gallery. I just backtracked on the URL.
franklin tabbors
His problem isn't the chosen camera, it's in learning how to use any camera
properly.
When used correctly a P&S camera's extended DOF vastly helps in situations
like this. A good small sensor camera is far and above the better choice
for all macro-photography over any DSLR. Educate yourself. Get some real
experience with real cameras. Better yet, learn to become a real
photographer that doesn't just run around mindlessly re-spewing
net-nonsense that's being parroted by all the resident virtual-photographer
usenet trolls.
All that you are doing is revealing that you know nothing about real
cameras and real-world photography. Just as the rest of the inexperienced
idiot trolls in this newsgroup constantly do.
John McWilliams
client.
Not a biggie.
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John McWilliams
John McWilliams
> tony cooper wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Try the links in my post upstream a few, esp. the one with dashes
>>> (and sans % or spaces.)
>>
>> Oh, I got to his full gallery. I just backtracked on the URL.
>>
> Er, yes; I know. I wanted to see if the URL worked for you and your news
> client.
>
> Not a biggie.
Did it?
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john mcwilliams