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    this may sound dumb but i can never get good pictures of my tank and its residents.....i always seem to get glare or blur....any advive would be appreciated

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bailey's Dad
    this may sound dumb but i can never get good pictures of my tank and its residents.....i always seem to get glare or blur....any advive would be appreciated
    Picture taking is an art of it's own for sure and can be difficult when taking pictures of our tanks. What kind of camera are you using? For me, the trick is to stay about 1" from the glass, not use the zoom feature and try to aim the camera downwards a bit away from the Metal Halides.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bailey's Dad
    this may sound dumb but i can never get good pictures of my tank and its residents.....i always seem to get glare or blur....any advive would be appreciated
    MiaReefer gave me some suggestions too about this. A tripod stand will help according to her. And take lots of pictures from every different angle, she suggested around 40, but you'll only use about 5 or less. This is true, because i have tested it.. And the sad part is. It's still blurry. Just gotta keep on practicing and being patient and know when to shoot when that moment arrives.

    Thanks Again! MiaReefer!!

    BTW I use a Kodak Easyshare
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    Glad you like it and hope that you will visit more often.

    I too use a Kodak Easyshare and it is a pretty nice, inexpensive camera. The key as you mentioned is to take hundreds of photos using different settings; find the setting that works best and then take another hundred to get 10 decent pictures to turn out.

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    How technical do you want it????

    A tripod helps yes, but here are some things to remember Shutter speed is the key for stopping movement! ANything above 1/60 should be enough to stop a swimming fish. Also the "program" mode of your camera tends to over expose by about 1/2 to 1 stop. And here is the best secret, if you underexpose a picture, even by as much as 2 stops you can bring the highlights back using Photoshop. The worst thing that we can do to a digital picture is OVEREXPOSE since once the highlights are gone they are gone forever!!

    If your camera has a manual setting option, play around with it, using 1/60 as a starting place.
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