Macro shots of sps corals
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You will have to upload them to a site like flickr first.
woodnaquanut
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Beautiful corals.
I like your compositions and exposures. Focus seems soft. Are you using a tripod?
I like your compositions and exposures. Focus seems soft. Are you using a tripod?
Hi woodnaquanut
I did use tripod and remote shutter,i generally have trouble with the focus by soft do you mean not sharp. I used tamron 90mm macro lens and on a couple i put a small ext tube which i received today to see what difference it made .I am new to photography and its a learn as i go process i was as close to the glass has i could get when i get a reasonable picture i have used the trim function to enlarge them magnification.
Bill
I did use tripod and remote shutter,i generally have trouble with the focus by soft do you mean not sharp. I used tamron 90mm macro lens and on a couple i put a small ext tube which i received today to see what difference it made .I am new to photography and its a learn as i go process i was as close to the glass has i could get when i get a reasonable picture i have used the trim function to enlarge them magnification.
Bill
rickztahone
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You wouldn't happen to have an external flash would you?
Reef Bass
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You are very close to embedding your pictures. In Photobucket, when an image is selected, tap the Share button and Get Links. Tap the IMG code box. That will copy the necessary code to embed your pic. Paste that directly into your post. No need to use the post card icon. When you preview your post, you should see your photo at whatever size you uploaded it to Photobucket.
sps , Thanks for the help with posting . I have not got a ext flash please critque .
Bill
http://s1272.photobucket.com/user/m...ral pics/DSC_5611 Medium_zps4mkwfn6j.jpg.html
Bill
http://s1272.photobucket.com/user/m...ral pics/DSC_5611 Medium_zps4mkwfn6j.jpg.html
Reef Bass
colors and textures
Much better! Thanks. Feel free to add a carriage return between images to separate them a bit and especially following the IMG tags when you're adding text to stop text from jutting out to the right of the bottom of the pics.
Very nice corals. Good job on your husbandry.
That second to last digitata seems to be veiled with a vermetid snail web. I'd put an end to that personally.
I agree the photos could be sharper. If you are already using a tripod and remote shutter release, then perhaps you are not shooting straight through the glass? That's very important. Also focus manually.
I checked the EXIF info on a couple and see you're using a relatively high ISOs (2000-2500) and very small aperture (f22). If you are using a tripod and your pumps are off, then dial that ISO way back to even 100 and go for longer shutterspeeds. You can see noise in your tighter cropped images.
I would also open up your lens more to say F10-13. I get your desire for greater depth of field, but at smaller apertures, diffraction can become an issue and is likely a significant factor contributing to your loss of sharpness.
Very nice corals. Good job on your husbandry.
That second to last digitata seems to be veiled with a vermetid snail web. I'd put an end to that personally.
I agree the photos could be sharper. If you are already using a tripod and remote shutter release, then perhaps you are not shooting straight through the glass? That's very important. Also focus manually.
I checked the EXIF info on a couple and see you're using a relatively high ISOs (2000-2500) and very small aperture (f22). If you are using a tripod and your pumps are off, then dial that ISO way back to even 100 and go for longer shutterspeeds. You can see noise in your tighter cropped images.
I would also open up your lens more to say F10-13. I get your desire for greater depth of field, but at smaller apertures, diffraction can become an issue and is likely a significant factor contributing to your loss of sharpness.
DubiousMaximus
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I want a few frags. White table acro, green tip branching moti...all of them really. Very beautiful!
Im not a photographer but yes some seem soft focus over sharper
Im not a photographer but yes some seem soft focus over sharper
reefbase
Thanks for the advice on the settings i will try that when i take some more shots in few weeks time,it was interesting to note your comment on the pumps off as i had not tried that and have 2 x gyres,1 x vortec and a tunze running on the tank its been a big factor in the corals surviving and doing well.
Bill
Thanks for the advice on the settings i will try that when i take some more shots in few weeks time,it was interesting to note your comment on the pumps off as i had not tried that and have 2 x gyres,1 x vortec and a tunze running on the tank its been a big factor in the corals surviving and doing well.
Bill
Reef Bass
colors and textures
Yes, flow is good. However, when taking pictures, turning pumps off stops water motion and that allows longer shutterspeeds without motion blur. Motion blur is likely another contributor to the lack of sharpness, particularly at the shutterspeeds you are using (1/20, 1/25). In addition, polyps tend to extend in the lack of current which makes for better images. Plus detritus settles so less marine snow in the pic.
Great collection of corals. Nice photos too.
I think if you tighten up the focus you can have really great shots.
+1 on Reef Bass's comments.
A few of the shots with the white/lighter colored corals could benefit from ~one f-stop less exposure to bring out the details.
I'm sure Nikon has something similar but on the macro/very close up shots i use the electronic viewfinder and there is a function to magnify a portion of the viewfinder image (and move the focal spot around). This allows me to use manual focusing to really fine tune the focus on that part of the picture. On these shots you won't have a lot of depth of field so you want to the focus to be on a particular thing - probably the polyp close to the shot and you can use this technique to get a very sharp capture of the focus of you composition.
I think if you tighten up the focus you can have really great shots.
+1 on Reef Bass's comments.
A few of the shots with the white/lighter colored corals could benefit from ~one f-stop less exposure to bring out the details.
I'm sure Nikon has something similar but on the macro/very close up shots i use the electronic viewfinder and there is a function to magnify a portion of the viewfinder image (and move the focal spot around). This allows me to use manual focusing to really fine tune the focus on that part of the picture. On these shots you won't have a lot of depth of field so you want to the focus to be on a particular thing - probably the polyp close to the shot and you can use this technique to get a very sharp capture of the focus of you composition.
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