New Macro Slider

[maxalmon]

I can't believe how much of a diff the "Macro Slider" made. The details are much better. All of these photo's are untouched, cropped only. Natural color......Prior pics of this zoa the colors were way off, I even think I mentioned that the colors were faded....The Tangerine Zoa's seriously look like this, they scream "look at me"....LOL

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This is tiny frag of my Superman, intense blue color with red polyps, none of this faded crap that people try and pawn off as a superman

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I kicked the setting to f9, what an incredible difference it made on capturing the true colors on all these zoa's

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[warlock_king]

alright now send me one of each and we're good. lol
Seriously though nice pictures, glad you finally got it figured out!

 

[fish addict]

Wow, everything is amazing! amazing pictures, amazing corals, you're my hero!

 

[estein02]

Now how come you didn't send me any of those zoos with the frag pack?! Seriously awesome photos!

 

[chilwil84]

love the crisp detail sweet pics

 

[myzislow]

NIce pics. the slider seems to really have helped. The pics look awesome as always.One question for you. In the frag packs you sent out, the superman monti that you included, is this from the marticultured piece you got from the Dr.s or of the original superman you got from viper? Just curious. I'm stoked either way. All of the corals you sent me are doing excellent and coloring up nicely. That large acro colony you sent is now a crazy neon green with an orangish undertone. The sunset is almost completely orange now

 

[maxalmon]

The trick to taking great pics is to play with the camera settings and get a feel for what everything does.
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The most important thing I learned was to bracket shoot, or rather take a pic, change fstop, take a pic, change fstop all the while leaving the camera focused on a single item, then go thru and view the photos and you'll start to see how the f stop will alter the depth of field and colors. Also, playing around with iso settings can have a huge impact on quality. Autofocus is worthless on macro subjects, all of the above were done in manual mode.... I could have saved myself a couple hundred bucks if I had known this before I purchased my AUTOFOCUS macro lens, could have just gotten a better quality manual lens.
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Just finished lunch and now it's time to play again...more pics in a while

 

[reefkprz]

WOW great pictures.

almost better than real life

 

[maxalmon]

Here's some kinda off the wall items...Ditata frag thats now growing on a little hill in the middle of some pom pom

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GI Joe zoa's...Tan with green speckles, pretty wild looking up close, not your average zoa.

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Huge polyps, about the size of a dime
white, purple & green, colors are way off on this one.

 

[grubsnaek]

what i dont even wanna take another pic with my piece..............

 

[wangotango]

Originally Posted by grubsnaek
what i dont even wanna take another pic with my piece..............

That's why I don't take pics of my tank too often. My tank looks pretty nice, but the pictures don't do it justice.
Wanna come over and take some pics max?
-Justin

 

[cleanrshrmpfan]

Originally Posted by maxalmon
I can't believe how much of a diff the "Macro Slider" made. The details are much better. All of these photo's are untouched, cropped only. Natural color......Prior pics of this zoa the colors were way off, I even think I mentioned that the colors were faded....The Tangerine Zoa's seriously look like this, they scream "look at me"....LOL

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This is tiny frag of my Superman, intense blue color with red polyps, none of this faded crap that people try and pawn off as a superman

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I kicked the setting to f9, what an incredible difference it made on capturing the true colors on all these zoa's

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what made the pictures better than they were before?
Because they look GREAT!!!

 

[maxalmon]

The details....If you look at some of my previous posts, the macro images are not that crisp or defined, especially the skirts on the zoa's....
Taken with macro slider, manual focus, f stop setting of 11...Some of the details may seem trivial, but learn enough tricks to capture a clean image and then you have incredible vs good...I'm still in the good stage

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Previous image taken with tripod and autofocus and program fstop

 

[cleanrshrmpfan]

Oh, I thought that it was some type of submersible camera. Thanks for the info.

 

[maxalmon]

Even a Yellow Polyp needs some respect everyonce in a while.

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Favorite zoa's

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.Anybody want to guess as to what coral this is

 

[anonome]

Ok, you have to stop.....you make us all look bad in picture taking!!!

Awesome pictures.....I want your camera now!! Hand it over!!!

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by Anonome
Ok, you have to stop.....you make us all look bad in picture taking!!!

Awesome pictures.....I want your camera now!! Hand it over!!!

LOL.....Thanks....I can get obsessed on things pretty quick, this is my newest obsession..