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Posted 21 December 2007 - 11:12 PM

Hey Uland did you take a picture of a male Leptolucania as well or just the female? I had these fish one time and if I am recalling correctly the males have overly pointed posterior portions of the dorsal and anal fins and a lot more bright orange/yellow color on the fins.

The males are really quite stunning just in a tiny package. Here's one from a NANFA report which is nice but still doesn't show the full depth of color. I've seen them with deep gold and flashes of green really beautiful.
http://www.nanfa.org...e0303/pygk2.jpg

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Posted 21 December 2007 - 11:17 PM

I really love your pictures Teleost. It must have taken you a lot of practice to get them looking that good. I need to make me a photo tank like that so I can get some fairly decent shots of my fish. I have your pictures as the background on both of my computers; one is the Central longear from the Kankakee and the other is one of your swampfish pictures. :D

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Posted 23 December 2007 - 12:27 AM

Wow Teleost, I guess I have missed this thread, excellent photos of E. evergladei, E. zonatum, and L. ommata. I guess I skipped this thread because i figured all of these photos were in your photo album that I have looked through, looks like someone needs to update their photo album!

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Posted 23 December 2007 - 01:12 AM

Steve,
It did take me while to get it to this point but I had good advice. It really came down to the right equipment and a point and shoot camera that can take decent macro shots. I'm glad you have them as your computer background. It's not me that does the good work...it's the fish that are beautiful!

Blake,
I've been really lazy :blush: I need to sit down and make the appropriate folders and post my photos in the gallery. Up to date I've only posted photos from trips.

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Posted 23 December 2007 - 01:27 AM

Steve,
It did take me while to get it to this point but I had good advice. It really came down to the right equipment and a point and shoot camera that can take decent macro shots. I'm glad you have them as your computer background. It's not me that does the good work...it's the fish that are beautiful!

Blake,
I've been really lazy :blush: I need to sit down and make the appropriate folders and post my photos in the gallery. Up to date I've only posted photos from trips.


Maybe I'll be able to build me a nice photo tank soon. How big are yours?

I need to get a better camera. I use a Fujifilm Finepix E550 and just recently started using a Fujifilm Finepix 58000. Both of those belong to my grandparents. I have a Vivicam Vivitar something. I forget the rest of the name, and I don't have it with me right now. It's not exactly the best at taking tank shots.

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Posted 23 December 2007 - 01:31 AM

I have a wide range in size of photo tanks. From 3" to 24". I use the 12" tank for 95% of my photos. I'm working on a topic to demonstrate how to build them. I've just been busy with other things. Hopefully the holidays will let me catch up.

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Posted 23 December 2007 - 01:46 AM

I have a wide range in size of photo tanks. From 3" to 24". I use the 12" tank for 95% of my photos. I'm working on a topic to demonstrate how to build them. I've just been busy with other things. Hopefully the holidays will let me catch up.


I would definitely be interested. I want to build me some for shots of the fish I don't get to take home, and the ones I do get to take home for that matter.

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Posted 26 May 2008 - 08:27 PM

I took a photo this afternoon of my captive Orangespotted Sunfish (Lepomis humilis) and thought I'd post it here.
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Posted 26 May 2008 - 09:27 PM

Did you cut and paste that on to a white background?

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Posted 26 May 2008 - 09:45 PM

Did you cut and paste that on to a white background?


That photo does have the background removed and replaced with very light gray. I'm practicing a few methods of shadow elimination. I suspect this method would work best on dark backgrounds.

Below is the same fish with gray photo paddle in the shade instead of the white paddle and direct sun in the above photo.

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Posted 26 May 2008 - 10:16 PM

Wow Uland, these are amazing.

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Posted 26 May 2008 - 11:49 PM

Wow! Beautiful L. humilis!

Blake

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 08:48 AM

That's a beautiful fish!
How old do you think that fish is and how big?
At what age/size do they start to get that color?

Edited to add one more ? What did you use for lighting to bring out the irridesent sheen without reflection?

Edited by mikez, 27 May 2008 - 08:49 AM.


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Posted 27 May 2008 - 09:10 AM

Mike,
I guesstimate the fish is almost two years old and this fish is about 4". They color up at home at or slightly under the 3" mark but this is based on captivity in a 55 gallon tank. The wild stock this fish came from, are much smaller and less colorful at this time of year. Local wild OSS will often have color at a pretty small size.

I was done taking photos of the family yesterday afternoon and still had to clean up my photo equipment from Saturday so I decided to get at least one photo of a captive fish. I just set my aluminum table in the front yard and used my typical photo tank. My paddles have different colors and I used the shade of a tree to help knock out shadows. The light is sunlight. I've found that light backgrounds tend to help eliminate reflection while the darker your background the more problems you encounter. Since both the light gray and white backgrounds are light, I have no problems with reflections. I really missed this fishes peak color a few weeks ago (it had lots more blue).




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