Fish in Motion

[Zen685]

I've been working on my photography lately and I thought I'd take some pictures of the my fish. I think I over saturated the pictures a little in the edit but overall I'm happy with how they came out. Let me know what you think.

Pictures were taken with a Canon XSi and a 50mm 1.8 II.

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[windyridge]

Gee I wish I could do that. Those are really good!

 

[Recty]

Clarity is good, but yes you over saturated and you didnt white balance, so the blue fish look purple and the green fish looks purple and the brown fish looks purple...

But sharpness is nice!

 

[JBen]

Look good to me, you should be happy. WB is off a bit as the above poster noted, easiest way to determine if your WB is off is look hard at anything that should be white and if you see a colour cast try to correct. Ive just started shooting my tank and am discovering how tricky this is.

My pick would be the last.

J

 

[Reef Bass]

+1 for generally sharp, clear and needing wb tweak (shoot RAW). I suggest cleaning up the marine snow. It is very distracting. And I think you'll find the picture feels much better when it is gone.

Personally I take pride in NOT adjusting saturation with my pics, especially in this world of unscrupulous and dishonest vendors who seem to think the right way to sell product is with pictures where they shoot with heavy actinic lighting and crank up the saturation.

 

[Zen685]

Thanks for all the feedback!

The WB is actually closer than you think. I'm running a very blue/red bulb combination right now. The regal tang did turn out purple when I tried to put the yellow back into the sail fin's stripes but I think the sail fin came out more true because of it. I'm editing RAW files in Digital Photo Professional so there's really no way to remove the "marine snow" I tried to use the manual dust delete feature but it wasn't really made to do big edits. The next time I shoot I'm going to turn the pumps off. Maybe that will remove some of what's showing up.

 

[bumski667]

Nice shots. The nifty fifty is a proven winner.