Late night photography

[melev]

While "juicing" more aiptasia tonight, I saw a few things I thought you might enjoy. Not a lot of late night photography gets posted on RC after all.

These images were taken with a <b>Fuji S602Z</b> in macro mode, 400 or 800 ISO, Aperature Priority, holding a flashlight on the subject. No flash.

I drizzled a few thawed mysis over the little plate babies, as their tentacles were extended. The top one grabbed one hungrily.

20 minutes later, it was fat-n-happy.

The suncoral enjoyed its meal, and here are a few images of its lovely polyps.

 

[melev]

The frogspawn rests at night. As you can see, it is only a few heads but I'm sure these will continue to split in the months to come.

Look at the sweepers on the Pavona!!! They coincide with the area that was stung by the frogspawn a few days ago. It appears to be defensive posturing against future attacks.

A finger Lobophytum polyp with some feeder tentacles visible.

Candycane doing the same.

A fighting conch.

A tigertail cucumber makes an appearance, but not enough to get a good picture.

Look at this urchin. Only at night with a flashlight do you see the 5 lines that form a star on its back.

 

[melev]

If you have some images from a late night expedition, feel free to post them in this thread. Let's see what you can capture, as lots of neat stuff occurs in the darkness of our tanks.

 

[myakkareef]

Marc those are really cool. I like the idea of the flashlight instead of flash...I am surprised the flashlight did not make things retract when the light hit them. The Pavona sweepers are pretty wild never relized they had sweepers like this...

 

[gregr]

neat stuff Marc. i love photographing my tank at night 'cause like you say, really cool stuff only comes out at night. i use a flash to find and illuminate the subjects but i do use a flash- the flashlight is just to find the stuff and light it up enough to get a focus.

 

[seahorsedreams]

I never even thought of taking night shots of the tank. Looks like I just found a new project!

 

[Phyl]

Nice photos!

Here's my contribution:

 

[gho]

Nice light paintings. A couple of sugguestions:
1) looks like some of them are over exposed - be sure to check the blinky highlights after the exposure.

2) try moving the flashlight around so that your entire subject is "painted" evenly with the light.

Pretty awsome work though. I usually shoot my stuff at night, but only because that's the only time I have available

 

[llpoolej]

Very nice photos!! I take my cheap flash off camera and move it around against the glass. Not a professional effect, but sorta works. I like the flashlight idea

I usually go to bed at night. If I didn't have to get up in the morning, I would be a night owl

 

[daddypugg]

Here are a couple that I got tonight. I am still trying to figure out the camera settings.

Great thread by the way.

 

[melev]

A few more additions, while Greg charges his camera's batteries.

Sweepers near the base of a Pavona.

A long sweeper on a Maze coral.

This guy was perched on my Plate Coral.

Aiptasia at night.

 

[Typo]

 

[jake2045]

My moonlight shots

My moonlight shots

I took these with just the moonlights on and long exposures.

Hope you like them.

 

[melev]

Nice job. Moonlights are really neat.

 

[modemfox]

Here are a couple that I got tonight. I am still trying to figure out the camera settings.

Great thread by the way.

Where I live those urchins are very easy to get wild... They over run the beach, and the jetties, and docks.

 

[gho]

A few more additions, while Greg charges his camera's batteries.

haha... Is that a hint? I actually did take a few, the other nite, and had one that seemed kinda interesting. Should I process it and post it for ya?

 

[melev]

Of course!

 

[gho]

Oh. Okay... Gimme a little bit. I was being lazy tonite!

 

[gho]

Okay... Here ya go - I was real lazy with this, so it's kinda crappy - taken handheld with a Sony DSC-F707:

 

[danieljames]

Cool theory on the pavonas possible defensive tactic. Never really heard anything like that before. I've always thought (with sps anyway), that there is a general winner. One stings the other, and the losers tissue dies and recedes.