My good friend kraash's Tank

[rams]

I want to first stop and say thanks to Reef Bass, TitusvileSurfer, Misled, xtm & Recty for taking the time to post in my question thread. You all gave me some ideas and more confidence in my skills. Still learning but I was able to use what I have learned and apply them this weekend. Our club had a killer bash at one of our distant members digs. I was looking forward to taking some snap shots. His user name is kraash and I would like to thank him for having us over and giving me the opportunity. Here it goes... and xtm & Reef Bass I expect more criticism. thanks for looking

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random Tank shots...

 

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some Fish

 

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beautiful clams...

 

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corals...

 

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and more coral...

 

[GW81]

wow, those sticks are enormous! i may have missed it, but what size tank is that?

 

[DOTZ]

That's a killer tank!

 

[Recty]

It's a great looking tank, you did a good job with the photos.

In my mind, the white balance isnt correct, but maybe that's really the way the corals are supposed to look?

 

[rams]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14731274#post14731274 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Recty
In my mind, the white balance isnt correct, but maybe that's really the way the corals are supposed to look?

I know that tank is really that blue...

4-400w Reeflux 20ks on Coralvue electric ballasts and 4-54w ATI blue plus t5s ran by an Icecap 660

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1609609

 

[Recty]

Good deal... I'm surprised he doesnt run a little bit warmer lighting to bring out some more of the yellow and red tones, but to each his own I guess.

 

[Reef Bass]

Yes, at first the shots looked a bit blue to me as well, but if that's how it is...

Lovely tank. Beautiful corals.

Nice job with the photos in general. To me, they look like decent tank shots and subject shots v. macros of subjects, but that's just a matter of description. I personally find "full subject" shots less visually interesting than macro "piece of subject" shots unless I am contemplating buying the subject or evaluating its overall condition, in which cases a full subject shot is exactly what I want. I think the 2nd to last and last shots demonstrate this. Those clam mantles would make excellent macro fodder.

The third image looks washed out / overexposed to me.

The black areas in the 3rd and 2nd to last pics look a bit too inky for my taste. I would like to see at least hints of detail in those areas.

Good job with the fish. I like the mandarin shot particularly although it's a bit dark. I can see where you're deliberately not center composing the fish, which is good. Unfortunately the remaining background / right half isn't all that visually interesting. The way the fish is posing and looking at the camera work well for me.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

I really love the shot of the mandarin! What a neat pose. I'll try to comment more in-depth on some of these later.

 

[rams]

Reef Bass: The more I take photos of tanks the more I would like a real macro lens. It is like a glimpse of a whole other world going on in your tank "details". I noticed after taking a break from viewing my original pics that photobucket does take a lot of the resolution out of the photos. They seem a lot darker shadowed, less sharp and detailed. Thats what you get with compression I guess. Now I really understand why it would be important to go for your own less restrictive photo site or your own peice of the web. As far as the fish shots go... its all in the crop. You all were right it does make the subject more personal and livelier.

Thanks for the comments so far. I already know what I would like to try different next time.

 

[Reef Bass]

Yeah, I hear the "whole other world" thing. I think that's part of my fascination with macros in general.

As far as your Photobucket issues, how big (file size, not pixels) are the files you are uploading and what filter ("reduce to") do you have selected when you upload?

 

[rams]

Start out with 4.5 to 5 M files uploaded to photobucket 800 X 600 (15" screen) - I haven't tried 1 M yet. I really do not want to eat up my space.

 

[Reef Bass]

My guess is it's your large file size which is causing Pbucket to reduce the size of your posted pics and thus to toss some detail. I use the "1 meg size" reduce to filter and post pics which are less than 1 meg. That seems to leave my pics unaltered although I haven't compared a downloaded posted pic to the original. Your pixel size is fine. Reducing your dpi resolution to 72 (screen resolution) will get you in at well under one meg without looking bad on screen.

 

[BLKTANG]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14728613#post14728613 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rams
some Fish

Is that a Yellow Scopas?

 

[Reeftanks6]

Wow what a wonderful tank!

 

[kraash]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14730998#post14730998 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GW81
wow, those sticks are enormous! i may have missed it, but what size tank is that?

Sorry I haven't replied yet, I'm a slacker

The tank is a 525g, 96''x36''x36''