My 65 Progress

[Monza28]

My camera is an Olympus sw770 (point and shoot). Its supermessible so some of the pics I posted earlier were taken "in tank." I take most of my shots in macro mode. But was wondering if someone had any other pointers or links to how to take better aquarium photos.

[CarmieJo]

Great tip #1, if you are planning on taking pictures first clean the glass inside and out. Great tip #2, if you see a once in a lifetime event happening rule #1 does not apply! Grab the camera and start shooting.

Macro mode will allow you to focus closely but gives you a very shallow depth of field. (Depth of field is how much of your tank from front glass to back is in focus.) This is great for corals but often not for fish.
I think that a tripod is a great tool and use mine all the time.
Play around using flash/no flash. Shooting at an angle or very close to the glass can help prevent the flash from glaring back at you.
I like to take pix of my tanks at night because light from the window makes reflections/glares on the aquarium during the day. I turn out the room lights too.
Take lots of images and throw away the bad ones! But, learn from the bad shots - why is it bad?

[Monza28]

Thanks for the tips Carmie. I especially liked the ones on not using macro mode for fish and on shooting at an angle to the glass/close to the glass with flash. I have a hard time catching the fish without flash but I hate the glare I get with flash. I'll be sure to try this out.

[Monza28]

I figured I would add some newish pictures to my thread to bring it back to life.

pink tipped plate coral


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my flame angel peeking out from behind the rockwork

[CarmieJo]

Ricky, your tank is looking great! I love the plate coral.

[Monza28]

Originally Posted by CarmieJo

Ricky, your tank is looking great! I love the plate coral.

Thanks Carmie, unfortunately the plate coral is acting strangely, it likes to infalte and deflate a lot. I've read this is pretty normal for long tentacle plates though. I also read that they usually dont survive when placed on the rockwork, anyone have any experience with these corals? I been target feeding mine cyclopeeze which it seems to love. I'll post pictures of it inflated and deflated in a minute. I hope this is truly normal behaviour for them. I read that they do this to try and gain bouyancy to move. Mine seems to try and move away from the rocks and towards the front glass.

[Monza28]

It does this at least once a day :-\

[CarmieJo]

Ricky, I have a short tentacle plate and it inflates and deflates on a regular basis. It also moves around. They do like to be on the sand. Mine eats anything that floats by and I target feed it mysis.