Fish Tank Pics!

[stormbind]

I took a few pics of my other hobby and thought that I would share them with you guys. I hope you enjoy them!

 

[rallysman]

Awesome work. I have a ton of photos of my tanks (Which I'm greatly reducing the number of soon). They're not easy to get! That's for sure. If #3 would have had the entire fish in the frame it would have been awesome.

 

[stormbind]

I agree with you about number three. I was disappointed to not get a shot with the whole fish framed. That's a Pajama Cardinal BTW, and I will try to get a pic of the whole fish tomorrow for you.

 

[rallysman]

Cool I never did keep any salties. Just weird freshwater fish from Asia, Africa, and the Amazon.

Just sold 775 gallons of tanks a couple days ago

 

[HoboSyke]

If you really wanna get good photos using the technique you did then shut of your air pumps and filter(s) while you take pics..

When I shoot my tanks I use an off camera flash from above the tank, it sits in a home made light box. Light box is just a shoe box with tin foil stuck inside it to help bounce/reflect the light into the tank.

Typical settings for this is about can be anywhere from about 1/2 to 1/8 in flash power and about f/16 and 1/160-1/200s. I find is a good aperture to use as this helps keeps things in focus..

Here is a couple of examples using this type of setup.

 

[rallysman]

If you really wanna get good photos using the technique you did then shut of your air pumps and filter(s) while you take pics..

When I shoot my tanks I use an off camera flash from above the tank, it sits in a home made light box. Light box is just a shoe box with tin foil stuck inside it to help bounce/reflect the light into the tank.

Typical settings for this is about can be anywhere from about 1/2 to 1/8 in flash power and about f/16 and 1/160-1/200s. I find is a good aperture to use as this helps keeps things in focus..

Here is a couple of examples using this type of setup.

That's what I do with the exception of killing the filter. Frankenfilter keeps up enough to not worry about it

 

[HoboSyke]

Yeah I don't kill my filters or air pumps when I use flash. I was saying that for stormbind as he isn't using any and the slow shutters are showing up the air bubbles as streaks through his shots..

 

[rallysman]

Yeah I don't kill my filters or air pumps when I use flash. I was saying that for stormbind as he isn't using any and the slow shutters are showing up the air bubbles as streaks through his shots..

:thumbup::thumbup:

 

[HoboSyke]

How long you had your burindis Rallysman? Are they wild caughts?

My Blue Mobas are F1. Had em since tiny fry.

 

[rallysman]

How long you had your burindis Rallysman? Are they wild caughts?

I've had that big guy for 4 or 5 years. He was about an inch when I got him. A pet store special so I'm sure it's F10000 or something.

You're probably laughing at the Aussie Arowana since you could step out and go fishing for them LOL.

 

[Skelly]

Grrr! No fair. I can't keep any coral alive in my salt tank and my roomies killed two of my fish while I was away last summer.

 

[HoboSyke]

 

[stormbind]

Yeah I don't kill my filters or air pumps when I use flash. I was saying that for stormbind as he isn't using any and the slow shutters are showing up the air bubbles as streaks through his shots..

Yeah so I had my return pump off and my mp10 set on feed mode. Not much else I can do. I don't really want to unplug my mp10 cause then I have to reprogram it. No bubbles in a reef tank. What you see floating around is just various particulate in the water. I think I fed the fish not long before I started photographing so its probably uneaten food. Next time I am gonna shoot a couple hours after the lights turns on. This way hopefully no one will have made a mess and all the corals will be open.

I used to have an African Cichlids tank and Always wanted a Frontosa. Thanks for sharing!