My new tanks (image intense)

[KwajRocks]

 

[KwajRocks]

Kyle - The purple tipped SPS in the 5th photo is your baby.

 

[KwajRocks]

If any one is from Auburn, you might recognize lots of these guys as Rollins. They are out of this world. He has done a magnificent job with these corals. They are not all in these pics, and even so, the pictures do not do them justice.

 

[Mariner]

Lori,
Wow, awesome tanks! Nice pics! Thanks for sharing.
Mariner

 

[MaryBebo]

Whooo HOooo AWESOME Lori, Those are great !!!!!!!

 

[KwajRocks]

Thanks y'all. Sorry it took so long. Now I have to try to take some clearer pictures.

 

[Nitroq2]

THose are awesome.. Another tip on the pics, shoot all full tank shots late in the evening when the sun is down and turn off all lights in the house just leave on tank lights. Use manual focus if possible. That will help alleviate some of the bright back lights that are interfering with the pics. Also move on up and shoot with the camera as close to the glass as possible when you are shooting closeups of the corals. Great job looks like you have the posting of them down to a science now.

 

[kng]

Wow Lori! You were right about that acro. Your tanks looks great!

 

[KwajRocks]

Thanks for the tip Allen. I will try tonight. The halides stay on until 7 so, I will have plenty of time to take pics. Thanks for the help.

Kyle - The picture does the coral an injustice. It is really purple and has a very unusual growth pattern. It seems to "whorl" a bit if you will. It also has some babies in two other places in the tank. They are fast growers.

 

[tjswan]

I WOULD love to see a picture of a purple tang!!!

 

[KwajRocks]

tracey,

Here is your baby. He is fat and happy and very friendly, he does not have the usual purple tang attitude.

 

[KwajRocks]

Allen, I tried the nighttime picture taking, and it worked great. There was no glare on the glass, and for the coral that was close to the glass I could really get some good shots. The problem is that it is hard to get a full tank shot because I have to back up so far, everything is out of focus.......

 

[Nitroq2]

Second pic is a picture of the month shot save that one when they call for LPS submit it. Third one looks good. First one and full tank looks like maybe you are letting the camera pick its focus point and it focused to the left side of the the tank which caused the right (closer side) to blur. If you can manual focus, try that on the full tank shots. What kinda camera you shooting with? Either way the tanks look great and I am just jealous Also just looking back it could have focused on the black box thing at the lower left of the picture. Maybe thats a chair back not sure. If you could move it out it might focus to the tank. Again the tank itself makes up for the slight focus issue.

 

[Rollin]

Now I want to see one of those webcams that you can control from the web so I can sit and watch everything go.

Make that happen will you?

 

[andyjd]

I tried a web cam on my 90, it could not cope with the light coming from the tank

 

[Nitroq2]

Don't get a webcam, and axis PTZ Security cam, that would be the ticket. Its a little more expensive but will allow it to adjust the focus and lighting. Its also IP based so you nat an IP to it and you have full control with pan tilt and zoom. and the zoom is incredible.

 

[KwajRocks]

OK Chris and Allen, remember I just learned to upload pictures. I can however take videos with my camera. It is a Minolta DIMAGE Z1. I know it can do alot of things that I don't know how to do yet. I have a good one of my clams spawning and my sump somewhere in my library of pictures. I am going to try to upload those and post the link, when I find the video.

BTW, the box is a set of bright shop lights I use to work under the tank at night.

 

[Nitroq2]

I have the Dimage A200 I love it. A quick read on the Z-1 shows it has manual focus as well as Spot Auto Focus where you can select a specific spot to focus. You might want to do that and set the spot to the center so that it will focus center every time. I understand the new camera I have had mine a while and still haven't figured it out.

 

[KwajRocks]

Many thanks for the help! I will get out my manual and see what I can figure out. I think you are right about the center focus, because I have seen the focus square on one side of the viewing window as of late. I guess I have accidentally hit a wrong button somewhere.

 

[scothew]

Hey Kwaj, another trick on your shots.. are you using a tri-pod or anything to keep the camera steady?

If not, do so.. even a chair or book shelf or something works great. Also in order to minimize any motion blur, when your camera is on something steady to hold it.... set the automatic timer.. that way you push the button and the timer starts, giving you enough time to get your hand away from the camera and prevent any movement.. that will help provide the sharpest pictures possible.