A simple Bonzai Acro photo
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Reef or Die
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Great pictures. Definitely got some skills!!
Scythanith
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105mm f2.8 nikkor VR.
And yes, it's a Meteor Shower Cyphastrea.
Thanks for all the comments!
Scythanith
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Here it is yesterday under the full lighting. I know I messed up my DoF but I really liked the polyps in the base area. I couldn't open up my aperture as much as I would have liked due to the sway of the polyps, etc. I would have had too much motion blur.
Reef Bass
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I see your point about the interesting nature of the polyps in the base and thus why you chose to set your focal plane there.
There is an unfortunate reality where objects in the foreground which are out of focus can be very distracting, and that is at work here.
Might I suggest both using a tripod (and remote shutter release or self timer) and turning your pumps off. Turning your pumps off will reduce / eliminate polyp motion and using a tripod with either remote shutter release or self timer will allow long exposures that will work with smaller aperatures / greater DOF. Plus it is very difficult to handhold a 105mm lens for 1/50th of a second without some motion blur, just from being human and not a fixed surface. Some people can do it. I cannot.
There is an unfortunate reality where objects in the foreground which are out of focus can be very distracting, and that is at work here.
Might I suggest both using a tripod (and remote shutter release or self timer) and turning your pumps off. Turning your pumps off will reduce / eliminate polyp motion and using a tripod with either remote shutter release or self timer will allow long exposures that will work with smaller aperatures / greater DOF. Plus it is very difficult to handhold a 105mm lens for 1/50th of a second without some motion blur, just from being human and not a fixed surface. Some people can do it. I cannot.
Scythanith
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Hi Reef Bass, thanks for the help. I am familiar in all the techniques you have pointed out. All my equipment used is listed on the first post. I was using the RRS tripod during this picture. The one thing I didn't do that would have helped somewhat would have been to shut the pumps off, but I was a little too lazy that day haahaa! Plus, using the 105 f2.8 nikkor, even at f/32, ~1.5 feet away from the subject would give me a DoF of about 2.7 centimetres. Which in hindsight would have yeilded a nearly in focus foreground. And since I didn't want to lean over and kill the vortechs, motion blur (even with the tripod, VR shut off, etc.) would have defeated the purpose of shooting the polyps.
I will shoot it again today, and do it right. I will post it up here once I get it done.
Cheers,
Scott
I will shoot it again today, and do it right. I will post it up here once I get it done.
Cheers,
Scott
