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Originally Posted by laurabolyard  ok, maybe not so much the camera, but settings. for example i probably will not use close-up if Im 4-5 ft away (or will I?) |
I have been really tied up with home and work and have not been around much.
The close-up mode is great if you want to take a picture of an individual coral for instance but not for taking pictures from a few feet away. It gives you really great detail but very shallow depth of field, that is the amount of the picture from front to back that is in focus.
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ISO being on 400 or 800 will depend on what? If there is light in the room, some natural light? The flash doesnt even come on because there is so much light in the tank with both halides on. I know that thats another factor that makes others advice difficult.
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ISO 400 is usually fine for full light shots but you may find 800 is better when all the lights are not on. 800 may be useful if you are trying to use a faster shutter speed in order to stop action.
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I guess right now I am working on iso, aperture and shutter speed, and distance setting. I found thhat shutter speed priority left me with dark pics, aperture priority seemed to to work well for close-ups, but not when taking some steps back to get a whole tank shot.
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When you use shutter or aperture priority do you have a choice of what shutter speed or f-stop you are going to use?
