improving pics of full tank w/halides on

[gpodio]

Wow! Just take a look at the difference between these and the first one... owesome!

 

[Flipturn88]

Even better, thanks. I can't decide which side I like better! Both are beautiful.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Thanks to everyone that offered their help and suggestions.
I still have a lot to learn about taking great aquarium pictures.

 

[AngelReefer]

nice tanks everyone

 

[Jay Luto]

Gian,

Good recommendations.

 

[gpodio]

Jay! What are you doing here? You are not about to pass over to the dark side are you??

Good to see you on RC!

 

[DMK]

nice improvement. i heard u can place a piece of scotch tape over lense too. i know it sounds getto, but does it work?

 

[mako56]

Hey Gary, What did you use for settings?

 

[jdieck]

Something that also seem to help is the use of a polarizing filter, it takes away a lot of the reflections,

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6876207#post6876207 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mako56
Hey Gary, What did you use for settings?

I took so many pictures that I'm not really sure of the settings used on those last few pics.
I used a cheapo tripod. (Boy I need to replace that sucker!)
I can tell you that my f stop was between 4.5 and 5.
Shutter speed was 1/30 to help minimize "fish blur" (but I got some anyways. Dang that Convict!)
Some exposure compensation was used, too.
I took a lot of pictures and sorted through them. I can't tell you how many hours of bad TV programming I missed.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6876381#post6876381 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jdieck
Something that also seem to help is the use of a polarizing filter, it takes away a lot of the reflections,

Thanks for reminding me. I used to have a polarization filter but I sold it along with my old 35mm gear.

 

[jdieck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6877957#post6877957 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
Thanks for reminding me. I used to have a polarization filter but I sold it along with my old 35mm gear.

Sorry, don't shoot the messanger

 

[gpodio]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6875598#post6875598 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DMK
nice improvement. i heard u can place a piece of scotch tape over lense too. i know it sounds getto, but does it work?

Could you be referring to using scotch tape over the flash to diffuse it?

I'm too anal with my lenses to give it a try, I freak out at the first sight of a finger print on the protective filter

 

[Frisco]

In the new Photoshop CS2, there is a feature for creating HDR (high dynamic range) images, which should address this problem. You take a series of RAW or TIFF pics of the same image with the range of different exposures required to get everything in the image exposed properly and then combine them together in PS into one of these HDR images. I haven't tried it, but it sounds easy enough to do and would fix this issue.