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Started by Guest_teleost_* , Jan 01 2007 03:50 PM

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#1 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 01 January 2007 - 03:50 PM

Since I've not been in the water recently I thought I might make myself productive and snap a few photos.

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I've had most of these fish for some time now. In the past I had a very hard time getting photos of these fish. After 162 pictures, these are the best I could come up with #-o

Thanks Skipjack for the Flagfish, he's a beaut.

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#2 Guest_fisgokie_*

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Posted 01 January 2007 - 05:58 PM

very pretty fish... how did you get them to turn out so well? i cant ever get mine to sit still to tak epictures of them?

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#3 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 01 January 2007 - 11:11 PM

very pretty fish... how did you get them to turn out so well? i cant ever get mine to sit still to tak epictures of them?

I put them in small tanks and hope they calm down. Since less than 4% of the photos are any good, you can see they rarely sit still the way I want them to.

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#4 Guest_Duckman77_*

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 03:31 PM

Wow! Your pics are really getting good! Maybe you could put together a north american native identification log and get it published??

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#5 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 03:59 PM

Wow! Your pics are really getting good! Maybe you could put together a north american native identification log and get it published??

Aw shucks

Thanks.

I'm still working on the photos. I doubt the fish will ever sit still though. I just need to win the lottery so I can go to each stream in each state and photo all of them. I'm sure my wife would love that :^o

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#6 Guest_dsmith73_*

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 04:45 PM

Great shots. Superior photo tanks make it much easier to get good shots, huh? I can't wait until I can find some time to sneak off to the garage and get some shots in.

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#7 Guest_frog&cichlid_ chica_*

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 12:13 PM

Those are some great pictures.. what kind of camera are you using? Macro lens? =D>

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#8 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 02:04 PM

Those are some great pictures.. what kind of camera are you using? Macro lens?

Thank you for the nice words. I use a canon A520. This model has been superseded by theA530 & A540. Both of which have greater pixel counts than my 520. I believe you can buy the A530 for as low as $150.00.

I set the camera to "macro" mode, point and shoot. I'm really not a photographer by any means. I don't use any special lens, just the out of the box camera.

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#9 Guest_frog&cichlid_ chica_*

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 06:32 PM

Cool - nice work.

I use a Canon Powershot S3 IS and it has a macro and supermacro function. That's what most of my pictures and my husband's pictures are taken with. We really enjoy it. :mrgreen:

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#10 Guest_bearskookums_*

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Posted 14 January 2007 - 02:26 AM

Wow nice pics teleost! I really like the fish in the 2nd and 3rd pic...cool blue looking. Whats the closest distance you can photograph in macro mode? My camera is a Sony DSC-S90 and has 4.1 Megapixel...I think same as your camera...but my pics don't look anything close to yours at all...might be my camera's CCD imager...I can only go as close as 4 inches...so I usually have to zoom and crop my pics so that lowers the quality...

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#11 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 14 January 2007 - 03:37 AM

Wow nice pics teleost! I really like the fish in the 2nd and 3rd pic...cool blue looking. Whats the closest distance you can photograph in macro mode? My camera is a Sony DSC-S90 and has 4.1 Megapixel...I think same as your camera...but my pics don't look anything close to yours at all...might be my camera's CCD imager...I can only go as close as 4 inches...so I usually have to zoom and crop my pics so that lowers the quality...

I'm not sure what I'm doing right here. I honestly think it's the camera. The original photos are about 13" wide.
It seems the distance from the subject varies slightly with light availability but I think 6" seems to be the limit.

I believe the real magic is setting the camera to take the largest pictures possible and providing lots of light. With large photos I can straighten and crop the photos as needed without sacrificing quality.

Here's the photo after I straightened/cropped it but before I reduced it for posting on the forum.
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#12 Guest_bearskookums_*

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Posted 14 January 2007 - 06:36 PM

Hmm...teleost...it might be the lighting thats making my photos grainy...will try to get a small observation tank and see if I can bump up the lighting and take some more pictures...