Lion in the sun

[IPT]

I am totally amazed at what this little P&S camera can do!! The light in the office at the end of the day is insane with natural sunlight hitting the front of the tank from the side. Only certain pieces or fish get illuminated. Contrasted with the blue of the tank lights it looks amazing.

Earlier in the day

 

[fullmonti]

great combo of light sources! & beautiful tank too

 

[Recty]

Very cool Warm colored fish definitely benefit from natural lighting. My tank used to get some morning sun through the patio door windows and my clown trigger with all his yellow top looked amazing during that period. I wish I had taken a picture, doh.

 

[maroun.c]

Great lighting on the last two witht he last one being a tad overexposed at least on my monitor...
in photography early morning light and late afternoon lighting is referred to as golen light and I think it is what you captured in those two pics

 

[IPT]

Yeah, the light was pretty cool. The golden hours, is usually how I have heard it referred to. I remember reading something from the late Galen Rowel to the effect of "I don't photograph things, I photograh light. Give me great light and I'll give you a great photograph".

Yeah, the last one is a tad hot. That even with the exp comp dialed down to -2 stops. I could probably tweak it some in the RAW file. It looked more accurate (still a little hot though) on my home monitor. It looks more blown and all the colors a little desaturated (on the first two) here on my work computer.

Thanks for the compliment on the tank. HAd a bad crash (temp) a while ago and some pieces took a beating. All in all it is doing well though. Could do with a little less algae and would like to see a few pieces re-establish themselves after the crash. It's a 75, I have a 120 to move it too. Need to get drilling that tank and spruce up the stand so I can swap it over!!

 

[maroun.c]

"I don't photograph things, I photograh light. Give me great light and I'll give you a great photograph".

Very true. it is the light reflected of your object creating the image.

 

[IPT]

Thanks for the compliments.

My Frogspawn took a severe beating. Went from like 12 heads to maybe 5. The favia on the bottom took a beating in general because the Leather above it just shaded the heck out of it and then was basically laying on it. That was totally my fault for being lazy.

There were two factors that caused issues. The first was ALK that creeped up (and CA) to wicked high levels. I hadn't calabrated the LM3 in a long time and simply was not testing my parametrs enough. Things started looking not good and that is when I figured it all out. On the very heels of that was the major issue that did most of the damage. It is a tank in my office and the building did some maintance on the heating system. The radiator was right behind that tank. The temp was pushing 90 degrees and I have no idea how long. That was high enough to trigger the temperature cutoffs for all the lights. Of course it all happened over the weekend. So my weakend/stressed corals needed to withstand crazy high temps and no lighting for two days. Overall I probably got off lucky. I could have lost everything.

 

[IPT]

took the nicer body to the office. The light is just too fun not to play with!

 

[IPT]

Dang clouds.....I was looking to get some other images tonight!! No sunlight today though. At least not enough to create the the beams and lighting to overpower the tank lights.

 

[xjdiver]

Those last two are stunning, the sunlight really brings out all the detail of the lion. Absolutely gorgeous! What species is that lion? And also, what was the original resolution of those images before you uploaded them? If they were in their originals with watermarks off to the side they would make great computer wallpaper!