A dozen or so new macro's...

[Blazer88]

Here is the product of my new Sigma 150mm F/2.8 EX macro lens, so far I'm pretty happy with the lens. Enjoy!

Plate Coral:

Yuma Ricordia:

Blasto Merletti:

Sunset Monti:

Unknown Monti:

Flordia Ricordia:

 

[Blazer88]

Onto the SPS shots:

These last three are my favorites:

 

[edwing206]

Now that's what you call close!
Nice pics.

 

[livestockvendor]

Super Pciture.

 

[sltpro-07]

:eek2: :eek2: :eek2: the florida ric is sooo close i can smell it....lol
GREATEST pics ive seen and i thought i was good your the man..

what cam and how much $ for the lens and cam?

 

[nUgZ]

Great work as always!!

 

[ataylo13]

Gotta love Macro's... Awesome shots. What camera?

 

[BLKTANG]

:eek2: :eek1:

 

[Blazer88]

Thanks for the comments everyone. ataylo13, the camera I'm using is a Canon 30D. The tank I shot was beautiful, I really wish I had that type of diversity of corals in my livingroom

 

[t5Nitro]

Great pictures! Keep up the good work

 

[2fishy]

Those are amazing pictures and the photo's in your little red house are just stunning!!!:eek2: :thumbsup: I hope that I can learn to take pictures like that!

 

[Rosseau]

I really enjoyed these ones Blazer.

 

[Blazer88]

Thanks for the comments guys. I need to update my flickr account since I haven't updated in a while, I probably have 70 more pictures to add.

 

[danskim]

Wow. Beautiful.

 

[louist]

Very nice! You are doing a great job with the 150

The dynamic range of these photos seem to be very high. Did you use fill flash or adjusted it in PS/LR? Or is it a product of your tank's lighting?

 

[Blazer88]

Louis, I don't have a flash (well, onboard but I never use it) so I just used the light from the tank. I would just adjust the curves/levels to try and expose the main part of the coral as best as I could.

 

[Blazer88]

These next two were experimental more than anything. I stacked two tele-converters (2x, 1.4x) plus extension tubes just to see what type of magnification I could get. At the minimum focusing distance (about 5"-6"), I can only fit about 4mm-5mm in the frame and the DOF is that of a hair. The image quality starts to take a dive pretty quickly with 2 TC's + tubes but I thought it was neat to see an SPS polyp up and personal. I'll have to play around with this setup a bit more and see if anything useful comes from it.

 

[Jeff]

Very very nice

 

[cybertec69]

Fantastic pictures, seems like a great looking tank.

 

[internetreefer]

Nice picture