How do you take nice clear pictures of your plant tanks? Mine came out dark.

John

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Aug 16, 2002, 11:13:39 AM8/16/02

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How do you take nice clear pictures of your plant tanks? Mine came out
dark.

I could barely make out the plants. I even had my aquarium lights on.

It also has a big ugly white thing on the glass which is a reflection of
the flash.

How do you guys take such beautiful clear pictures that show the plants
clearly and nicely lit.

Thanks.

Dave Millman

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Aug 16, 2002, 1:34:37 PM8/16/02

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John wrote:

> How do you take nice clear pictures of your plant tanks? Mine came out
> dark.

Here are the bookmarks from my FAVORITES list, which I compiled about 3
months ago:

http://www.webphoto.com/tips/tip4.html
http://www.vectrapoint.com/main/photo/fototips.html
http://members.rogers.com/silverwindstudio/photo/howto/aquarium/aquariumhowto.html

http://characin.com/photography/web-show/A-01-intro.html
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http://hem.bredband.net/maxstr/aquarium_photo.htm
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http://fishgeeks.com/faqs/photog.htm

Dave

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Aug 16, 2002, 1:44:34 PM8/16/02

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John wrote:
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>How do you take nice clear pictures of your plant tanks? Mine came out
>dark.

I just prop the camera on something, aim it towards
the tank and frame the picture, shut off the flash,
turn on the timer and click.

dvs...@iland.net

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Aug 16, 2002, 4:08:35 PM8/16/02

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Try a digital camera without using the flash. I can get some wonderful
pictures doing this. I can only assume a conventional camera (35mm)
will give the same result, but havn't tried it, since I get instant
results with the digital.

You'll also want to use a backdrop behing you and the camera to block
any background light to avoid glare on the glass.

LeighMo

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Aug 16, 2002, 7:05:04 PM8/16/02

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>How do you take nice clear pictures of your plant tanks? Mine came out
>dark.
>
>I could barely make out the plants. I even had my aquarium lights on.
>
>It also has a big ugly white thing on the glass which is a reflection of
>the flash.

Don't use flash photography to take pictures of your tank.

Wait until night time, turn off the room lights, turn off the flash on your
camera. Then take pictures. They'll come out much better.

Leigh

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ddaquaria

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Aug 17, 2002, 9:31:30 AM8/17/02

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in article MPG.17c6b6732...@news.earthlink.net, John at
jo...@nospam.com wrote on 8/16/02 10:13 AM:

If you don't have the benefit of owning a digital camera...
1. don't use flash
2. with an SLR - use both the manual and auto focus when needed
3. with point and shoot - focus on the wall (or object) behind the tank,
hold down the shutter half way, then move to the object in the tank. Press
the shutter all the way now. Sometimes you get a good one, and sometimes
you don't.

big D
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Aug 21, 2002, 8:23:04 AM8/21/02

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I use no flash, set the cam to a macro mod and keep all background
lights(In the house) off. If you have a high end cam you cn mess with
aperture and fstop and such to create the effect you want.

Marcus

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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:13:39 GMT, jo...@nospam.com (John) wrote: