How to correct the photos or need a new camera?
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gregr
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The only one that is subpar is the clownfish and it looks like you shot that pic at an angle to the glass. Try to keep the camera square on to the glass to reduce distortion. That Sony is a good camera, a little old but very capable. I've used it and found it to be kind hard to get used to, but still capable. The Rebel or any other dslr will be much more flexible in what you can do with it, but of course that comes at a price.
t5Nitro
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Any hints as to how to make them better? The only one I photoshopped was the first pic and I tried to take out the date on it which didn't work and put a border on it.
I guess I have a question on how to take macros, should I be close to the tank to 'try' and get close to the coral? Sometimes it gets close without making it go blurry but sometimes it goes blurry real fast when zooming in. That, or should you stand back a bit and zoom in all the way and crop it or how do you do it?
I guess out of all of those I like the first 2 pictures and I'm not real sure how I got them. Anything you can do to the backgrounds to make the pictures look a little nicer? I have photoshop elements 5.0, it has a lot of tools to use in the program I just don't know what to do to the photo.
Thanks.
I guess I have a question on how to take macros, should I be close to the tank to 'try' and get close to the coral? Sometimes it gets close without making it go blurry but sometimes it goes blurry real fast when zooming in. That, or should you stand back a bit and zoom in all the way and crop it or how do you do it?
I guess out of all of those I like the first 2 pictures and I'm not real sure how I got them. Anything you can do to the backgrounds to make the pictures look a little nicer? I have photoshop elements 5.0, it has a lot of tools to use in the program I just don't know what to do to the photo.
Thanks.
gregr
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For the backgrounds you can try blurring them to smooth out the specs and such. The blur tool is also the sharpening tool (hold the mouse down on it and you get the other options). Select a brush size around 30 pixels or so and smooth away.
For the close-ups you can get as close as 4cm away from the subject but I'm pretty sure you need to have the lens zoomed all the way out to be that close. Try a tripod if you have one, and the self-timer too. To get a lot of depth of field try aperture priority and an aperture of f8. If you want narrow depth of field (and a nice smooth out of focus background) try an aperture of f2.8. The smaller the fnumber the less depth of field you get. Also, the smaller the fnumber the faster your shutter speed will be.
For the close-ups you can get as close as 4cm away from the subject but I'm pretty sure you need to have the lens zoomed all the way out to be that close. Try a tripod if you have one, and the self-timer too. To get a lot of depth of field try aperture priority and an aperture of f8. If you want narrow depth of field (and a nice smooth out of focus background) try an aperture of f2.8. The smaller the fnumber the less depth of field you get. Also, the smaller the fnumber the faster your shutter speed will be.
