Critique another photo for me...

[baymonkey]

What Aperture and ISO setting are you using?? Do you use a flash, or just the natural light? One more, how much tweaking are you doing in photoshop?
BTW, love your pics, you have to upgrade to CS2 it's a whole new world...

 

[jleithiser]

The pics are great! I really like the one with the clowns together!

 

[n_sarno]

Nice photos, except I'm not a huge fan of the black and white one.. i think family photos.. landscapes etc its different.. But coral and fish are much to beautiful to be captured in black and white.. JMHO
Nick

 

[nm reef]

Originally Posted by baymonkey
What Aperture and ISO setting are you using?? Do you use a flash, or just the natural light? One more, how much tweaking are you doing in photoshop?
BTW, love your pics, you have to upgrade to CS2 it's a whole new world...

When shooting the aquarium I normally shot in AV mode and use the largest aperture possible...with these that was f 4.0 (using Canons 17-85 f/4.0-5.6 lens)
For aquarium shots I like ISO of 100 most of the time...no flash...
editing consists of levels...maybe a slight curves adjustment....I sometimes adjust shadows & highlights...maybe hue & saturation...fairly basic stuff in an attempt to produce photos that represent what my eye sees.

 

[saltn00b]

wow you use only ISO 100 ? do you get most of your shots coming out very blurry?
i seem to only get quality pics when i manually adjust shutter speed or turn it up to ISO 400 (my camera's max ISO)

 

[lion_crazz]

NM, your pictures are beautiful. My favorite is the color photo with the clowns. That is absolutely frameable (not to say that the other two are anything short of amazing).
I am not crazy about the black and white either. You posted some incredible landscape photos which were black and white not too long ago(all of which I had to save because they were so beautiful), but I am not really crazy about this aquarium black and white.