need help with tight close ups please

[klepto]

Wow Titus- great points! I feel like a student in class...

VB- keep shooting and dont give up! posting more and more pics and working on thoughtfully taking better images willl only better your skills (even w/ out RAW or other luxuries).

yeh shooting through a bowfront will make getting a sharp close up near impossible...Unless you shoot through the sides.. which limits you greatly.. If you can set up a 10- go for it, you can get creative with backgrounds and get exactly the lighting/angle you need on subjects.

 

[vbsaltydog]

Thanks Klepto,

I have a 10g in my garage that I can use but there are only a few subjects that can be moved as most are attached to stationary rockwork plus I don't really like the idea of stressing the corals during the moving back and forth and that also means that I need to keep both tanks at the same temperature, etc. ehhhh.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Thanks Kelpto!

I think setting up a 10 gallon tank would be a wonderful idea. In fact, I think every photographic reefer should do it. You can set the tank up like a light box! This space will be geared 100% to photography and nothing else. That is it's only purpose.

Go get some white printer paper, wax paper, or some type of diffuser. Cover this with the sides of your tank and have to flood lights pumping light in. You could paint the background black and become a photography machine!

When to shoot is easy...just keep the tank empty. When you do a 10 gallon water change...drain the water into the photo tank. You are obviously already working with your tank and have time set aside. Que the lights, place a subject in, and shoot away. I don't know how polyp extension would work, but with a little thought I think this could be the start of something great.

 

[vbsaltydog]

Thanks for the kudos and for the suggestions. I will set something up and update the thread as the project progresses.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Check this out.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=281524

A 10 gallon tank has the potential to offer photographic conditions far superior to any display tank.