A few photos

[Doodles]

Just photos from my first attempt using a DLSR around a month or so ago, not that good but not overly bad lol

The whole fish woulda been good:whistle:

 

[Big-B]

Nice crisp pictures.

 

[scatz]

they are great pics, especially as they are all fast moving fish, but yeah, the whole fish would have been good lol

 

[Stan]

They look good to me!

 

[macvsog23]

Fantastic photos
Great thing with DSL is you can take 300 shots look at them and pick the good ones with out having to send film away or make a contact sheet.

Down side is the delay even a super duper camera like the Nikon D3s is going to have a lag time even if it is measured in milliseconds fish sure move fast if they want to.

 

[Joby]

Some nice pics there :clap:

The first one gives me an idea for a whole new photo competition, guess this fish

 

[Doodles]

Thanks
I need to work out the settings on the camera better, hopefully borrowing one again soon plus using a tripod would help lol

 

[benmcfadden]

What camera were you using, I just bought a Cannon EOS 550D

 

[macvsog23]

A tripd is great for set photos
A good flash is a better buy. With a good flash and a "Fast" lens your almost in the boat.

I use a 60 m/m macro lens with a SB 29 ring flash I mount the flash on the hot shoe but it can be removed and hand held or cliped on the lens this gives me a better chance to catch the fish as they fly about in and out of focus.

 

[Doodles]

A tripd is great for set photos
A good flash is a better buy. With a good flash and a "Fast" lens your almost in the boat.

I use a 60 m/m macro lens with a SB 29 ring flash I mount the flash on the hot shoe but it can be removed and hand held or cliped on the lens this gives me a better chance to catch the fish as they fly about in and out of focus.

ok thanks Bob, and better lighting in the room would help too?

What camera were you using, I just bought a Cannon EOS 550D

It was a canon 450 that my other half borrowed from uni, he can get a 550 too, so hopefully that'll be next:yes:

 

[macvsog23]

Ok thanks Bob, and better lighting in the room would help too?
The problem with lighting is that DSL, cameras are quite sensitive to white balance, in the days of wet film your film was balanced to the Kelvin of the light so for daylight you used a film balanced to day light ect as the digital camera has no way of knowing the light balance it needs fine tuning sadly the more expensive cameras are the only ones that you can fine tune.
I am not familiar with cannon as i use a Nikon.
Some were on the camera your have a WB setting it will have several setting plus a way of setting for the Kelvin.
Mine comes under the "Shooting" menu. It is basically a way of telling the camera what sort of light your using ie flash daylight tungsten ECT
It is possible to make a L066 look like a L173 with clever use of the white balance

This link may help




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[macvsog23]

This link is quite good also

http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_white-balance.html

 

[Rabbit]

Nice!

 

[Zebra Pleco]

Nice Post

This link is quite good also

http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_white-balance.html

 

[Mooo]

They are fab photos, Rasbora are hard to snap a nice clear pic of them..You did well...Can only get better...

 

[Doodles]

Thanks guys and thank you for the info Bob
Ill have a read through the links.