A few new PICS

[Poseidon]

I bought a new lens for my camera, it is a 70-200 F2.8L from Canon... Now I can get good shots with out FLASH... All of these are without flash and under tank lighting only.

Hammer Coral


Yellow Tang


Blasto....

So whatcha Think?

[scubadude]

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So whatcha Think?

SWEEEEET!

Love the blasto! how big is that hammer...man that thing must send out monster sweepers...More pics

Rocky

[Minh Nguyen]

Mike. The picture and the tank looks great. Which ?Canon camera do you use? I got a Canon 35mm camera also, but find that for tank picture a good digital works best.
Minh

[Poseidon]

Mike. The picture and the tank looks great. Which ?Canon camera do you use? I got a Canon 35mm camera also, but find that for tank picture a good digital works best.
Minh

I do have digital!!! I have the Canon 10D DSLR. I am having trouble getting good pic's of my tank though, because I don't have a true "macro" lens. I have some items on my wish list like extension tubes and Tele-converters that will help get me closer to my tank subjects. But I have to buy the equipment that helps my Studio first, then I'll get toys!!!

Next on the list is a 17-40 F4.0L that will get me the wide angle I lack right now, on the 10D it works out to about 28-66mm because of the 1.6X Crop factor. On the DSLR's the image sensor is smaller then a 35mm frame, so all my lens either "appear" to get closer or simply crop the borders, depending on your glass is half full or empty view!! :LOL:

I'm going to try a few picture's using multiple flashes, but I'm still limited by my close focus abilities, these pictures were taken from more then 5ft away from the glass!!!

And Scuba that Hammer is HUGE!!!! it has 19 heads on it now, when I bought it, there was 2!!! It measures about 7.5" X 6" wide, when it is all closed up!!!

[Minh Nguyen]

I do have digital!!! I have the Canon 10D DSLR. .....
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I am envious. I am just too poor to afford a toy like that so I just stick to my Minolta Dimage Z1 and my Canon EOS Elan (Which I had for about 10 years now.
Minh

[zhenya]

Sweet shots,Mike
I know you have a great camera but something must be said about the hands that hold it and the eye that sees the subjects Great job,dude!

I have a poor's man camera CP-885 but for my needs it is just fine,after I bought the tripod I could notice the difference in the focusing. I would love to try one of this DSLR cameras but I don't think I'd know what to do with it

Minh, don't be so modest,your pics are fantastic as well ;)

[Poseidon]

Now Wait a Minute here....

Minh, I'm TRYING to get results like YOURS!!!!

and Gene your shots are flat out BEAUTIFUL... You guys are the ones I'm trying to Emulate!!! I just need a better lens...

[Reefland]

Man you guys think you;ve got something, it don't hold anything against our Kodak digi! Point, click upload and share and that will be made a heck of a lot easier when we get the Easy Dock.

Really, I don't know anything about camera's but what you guys are talking about sounds like you can spend more on the camera than the tank. For anyone looking for a nice, simple camera that can take decent pictures, look at the Kodak's.

[Poseidon]

Man you guys think you;ve got something, it don't hold anything against our Kodak digi! Point, click upload and share and that will be made a heck of a lot easier when we get the Easy Dock.

Really, I don't know anything about camera's but what you guys are talking about sounds like you can spend more on the camera than the tank. For anyone looking for a nice, simple camera that can take decent pictures, look at the Kodak's.

Yup you sure can!!!

I do wedding and Senior portrait photography on the side, thats why I spent so much, but here is a break down,

Camera: $1495.00
Lens 1 : $389.95
Lens 2 (used) $800.00
Flash : $329.95
Mem Card 1 Gig : $299.95
plus all the Studio stuff I bought.... Geesh I have 2 really expensive Hobbies!!!

But I can get shots like these:

[zhenya]

This is some nice work,Mike Shot those in the studio,eh?
I got inspired by your words and took couple of pics today
Same CP-885 with macro mode on and a tripod,I don't know how I did without it all this time...

[Poseidon]

Yup thats what I want to GET!!!! Problem is a really good macro lens for my camera is...... $700.00!!! Ouch!!! and as of right now no one is paying me to take pictures of my tank

Great shots Gene!!!

[zhenya]

Thanks,Mike

The reason I bought the coolpix is becouse it had a good macro capabilities and it was cheep,I think I spent somewhere around 400 bucks for it.
And,Like Scott said, it's basically point and shoot once you get familiar with it.
But, it can not be compared to the shots I've seen from your camera...the colors,clarity and depth of field...I just can't get those with my el cheepo cam.

[Reefland]

Awesome pictures Gene!

[Poseidon]

A few more for fun....

Capanella


Blasto


Niger Trigger

[Minh Nguyen]

Here are a few pictures I took today from my tank.

[Poseidon]

I just can't get that close yet!!! I can enlarge an area, to a point of course but I want to be able to get down to 4-6" range, right now, I'm at 15-18 with my 28-135 and 5Ft with my 70-200... So I have a ways to go!!!


This is a crop of my CApanella... About 200% I think

[Minh Nguyen]

I just can't get that close yet!!! I can enlarge an area, to a point of course but I want to be able to get down to 4-6" range, right now, I'm at 15-18 with my 28-135 and 5Ft with my 70-200... So I have a ways to go!!!


This is a crop of my CApanella... About 200% I think

It is a little blurry.

I can only get good close up on corals right in ther front of the tank. I can't zoom in on the coral in the back very well.
Minh

[Poseidon]

Yup thats why I don't post them...

Maybe if I were to close the lens a little and use a tripod I know I can get better depth of field that way.... I'll have some more tinkering to do!!!

[zhenya]

Mike,

I love the trigger shot I think the bluriness comes from our screen resolution and not becouse your shot was blurry,at least that is what I think

Minh, that is some nice camera work, very crisp pictures

I usually shoot from about 4-5" away from the glass becouse the tripod won't let me come any closer but before I just used to press lens right up against the glass and focus with macro mode on.I hate using zoom feature as I think it degrades quality.
Here's a shot I took today as well hoping to have a dicent depth of field but I think it bummed out

[Reefland]

I think the first one shows very nice depth Gene.