Photos of Guppys

Hello:

I did some first photos of Guppys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/

Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.

--
Miguel M. Yalán
http://mmyv.com

Miguel wrote:
Hello:

I did some first photos of Guppys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/

Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.


OK, I'll bite. They are blurry pictures of pretty colored fish. Too
blurry to be of much interest.

Russell

Miguel wrote:
Hello:
I did some first photos of Guppys
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/
Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.
Blurry.
Taking photos of fish in an aquarium is not an easy task.
A couple of tips from someone who doesn't claim to be an
expert, but has taken a few OK fish photos.

1. Make sure the glass is spotlessly clean, inside and out.
2. Make sure your water is nice and clean. With my tanks, I
find the few days after a water change are about the best time.
3. Boost your lighting - put a couple of desklamps with 18W
CFL's or similar over top - get as much light as you can
into the tank. Maybe use side-lighting also.
4. Lift your ISO - bearing in mind that noise increases as
the ISO increases. With my Samsung GX10, 800 is about as
high as I can go while still retaining reasonable detail and
not a lot of noise.
5. Use a lens that can focus at a reasonably short distance.
6. Use manual focus, set the lens to a fairly short
distance, then focus by moving your body with the camera
back and forth.
7. Watch out for reflections. I find it best to shoot in a
completely black room except for the tank lights (which are
constrained by the hood). I don't use a flash, but if you
want to use one, be wary of relfections.

I decided to upload a few photos of my wet pets to my very
neglected flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdaj

On 2009-02-01 20:22:15 -0800, "Miguel" said:

Hello:

I did some first photos of Guppys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/

Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.

I would go along with what Doug said as well. A macro lens or the macro
setting on your camera might help, too. Light falls off very quickly in
water, so you want a lot of light, but you do not want to see
reflections of the light in the glass.

It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years
ago:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjc...&bgcolor=black

It

is a salmon swimming up the creek in my yard. These salmon like very
shallow water; they will slide over wet rocks and even cross roads in
rainstorms.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:
It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years ago:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black



Nice! I snooped through all the photos using the slide show function,
and quickly found you have duplicates of each and every one: some naming
convention or other, in that each photo has a version named as the
above, and also as:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning-20Salmon-2019&bgcolor=black

The top one was probably up loaded as, and the % get added to show the
space (top URL).
http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjc...00024/Spawning 20Salmon
2019 bgcolor=black

A nice collection of shots, though.
--
John McWilliams

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 07:53:09 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2009-02-01 20:22:15 -0800, "Miguel" said:

Hello:

I did some first photos of Guppys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/

Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.

I would go along with what Doug said as well. A macro lens or the macro
setting on your camera might help, too. Light falls off very quickly in
water, so you want a lot of light, but you do not want to see
reflections of the light in the glass.

It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years
ago:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjc...&bgcolor=black

It

is a salmon swimming up the creek in my yard. These salmon like very
shallow water; they will slide over wet rocks and even cross roads in
rainstorms.

I get a page with no images and instructions to download. Cutting off
the specifics after the "/" brings me to the album, and I can go from
there to Page 2 and the salmon.


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

On 2009-02-02 08:21:18 -0800, John McWilliams said:

C J Campbell wrote:
It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years
ago:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black


Nice!

I snooped through all the photos using the slide show function, and
quickly found you have duplicates of each and every one: some naming
convention or other, in that each photo has a version named as the
above, and also as:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning-20Salmon-2019&bgcolor=black

Yeah.

I was noticing that earlier. I have to fix that.

A nice collection of shots, though.

Thanks.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

On 2009-02-02 11:25:17 -0800, tony cooper said:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 07:53:09 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2009-02-01 20:22:15 -0800, "Miguel" said:

Hello:

I did some first photos of Guppys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245465519/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3246296758/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmyv/3245471907/

Always It's interesting to know your opinions and appreciations.

I would go along with what Doug said as well. A macro lens or the macro
setting on your camera might help, too. Light falls off very quickly in
water, so you want a lot of light, but you do not want to see
reflections of the light in the glass.

It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when you
are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple years
ago:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjc...&bgcolor=black

It

is

a salmon swimming up the creek in my yard. These salmon like very
shallow water; they will slide over wet rocks and even cross roads in
rainstorms.

I get a page with no images and instructions to download. Cutting off
the specifics after the "/" brings me to the album, and I can go from
there to Page 2 and the salmon.

Okay, thanks. I may have to fiddle with it. Of course, with my web
writing ability, I will probably make it worse.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:
On 2009-02-02 11:25:17 -0800, tony cooper
said:

I get a page with no images and instructions to download. Cutting off
the specifics after the "/" brings me to the album, and I can go from
there to Page 2 and the salmon.

Okay, thanks. I may have to fiddle with it. Of course, with my web
writing ability, I will probably make it worse.


tony-

Try the links in my post upstream a few, esp. the one with dashes (and
sans % or spaces.)

--
john mcwilliams

John McWilliams wrote:
C J Campbell wrote:
It takes a lot of practice to get decent pictures of aquarium fish (or
any fish, for that matter). The only time you want blurring is when
you are trying to show motion, as here in a picture I made a couple
years ago:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning%20Salmon%2019&bgcolor=black



Nice! I snooped through all the photos using the slide show function,
and quickly found you have duplicates of each and every one: some naming
convention or other, in that each photo has a version named as the
above, and also as:

http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjcampbell#100024/Spawning-20Salmon-2019&bgcolor=black

This link works, the one above with percent signs does not, nor the one
below. There's a php function, I think it's htmlsafe() that fills in the
spaces but it's better to use underscores & avoid spaces.


The top one was probably up loaded as, and the % get added to show the
space (top URL).
http://gallery.mac.com/christopherjc...00024/Spawning 20Salmon
2019 bgcolor=black

A nice collection of shots, though.


--
Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
www.baynatives.com

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