How to take good pictures

[dmuczynski]

Any advice on how to take good pictures? As soon as I use flash, it does not look good. W/O flash it is too dark. would appreciate good photo taking advice.

 

[lion_crazz]

yeah, I am not the best photographer either so I am interested to hear how people take such amazing shots of their fish.

 

[bgriff]

Still learning/interested myself.. but I seem to have better success at night.. with all lights in room off except for tank.. no flash!

 

[lion_crazz]

Originally Posted by BGriff
Still learning/interested myself.. but I seem to have better success at night.. with all lights in room off except for tank.. no flash!
me too.

 

[jonny bolt]

I do the same thing.....turn out lights in the room and tv too, and use the Auto-Flash feature on my Sony DSC-S90. Sometimes the flash will reflect off the glass, but you can often get decent pics without the glare.

You can see a little glare in this one, top-right corner...

VGA size...

 

[hot883]

Originally Posted by Jonny Bolt
I do the same thing.....turn out in the room and tv too, and use the Auto-Flash feature on my Sony DSC-S90. Sometimes the flash will reflect off the glass, but you can often get decent pics without the glare.

You can see a little glare in this one, top-right corner...

VGA size...

Is that a puffer?

 

[jonny bolt]

Yup, Saddle Valentini Puffah. I porked him up yesterday...fed him a live mussle and a bunch of live Brine Shrimp. His belly was draggin' LOL

 

[bronco300]

i get the best pics when you put the setting on the flower....and without a flash, then make sure to either use a nice tripod or hold super still....

 

[bronco300]

here is another, i like the green one poking out....now tricks touch up, just my camera and when i edit it, cut it out of the group...but no touchups.

Luke

 

[misty7850]

I am just getting back together from a computer crash.. and lost most of my recent pictures. But I too either use macro. or the flower setting. And if you do use the flash angle the camera down slightly this will help decrease the glare from the flash.

 

[kdfrosty]

Originally Posted by misty7850
I too either use macro. or the flower setting. And if you do use the flash angle the camera down slightly this will help decrease the glare from the flash.
Precisely my method....I just never usea flash. I will sometimes turn off filters/powerheads if I am trying to take a pic of a coral in a spot with lotsa flow. If I am trying to take a picture of a fish, I will use the "sport" setting on my camera
I'd also recommend a good photo program (I use Photoshop) to do some cropping, etc. Oh, and crop before you resize.

 

[jonny bolt]

I finally figured out that when not using the flash, upping the ISO setting to 200 or 400 makes for way better pics lol, using the macro (flower) setting as well.

 

[kindbuds2k]

That's how this picture turned out with those settings.

 

[sweetdawn]

bronco in your second picture you have one of those Sundial Snails I think
very bad get it out if you havent already

 

[miked0523]

Yep I see it too directly under the polyps between 3 and 4 from the left.

 

[reeflaw]

I'm pretty sure I have Sundial Snails that are very small. What is the danger?

 

[hagfish]

If you don't have a tripod, setting the camera flush against the glass makes it much easier to hold still if you take a pic with no flash.

 

[nomad]

Sundial snails eat zoos.

 

[bronco300]

yea, good eye...i had gotten him out already...i think he already caused terror....but the zoos are still alive thankfully.