southstar066
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I am trying to learn more about shooting, especially fish. Please critic. and give advice for better shooting.
Blotchy anthias
Aussie Acans
Blotchy anthias
Aussie Acans
new pic
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Recty
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I'm far from an expert, but imo the anthias needed to be shot at a higher shutter speed to get rid of any blur from it being in motion. It just isnt a crisp picture.
The acan shot isnt bad, but it would benefit from having a bigger depth of field, to the point where you get all the tentacles in focus. You use a tripod? If not, you should. You can easily bump your fstop up to 9 or 11ish, and lower your shutter speed down to whatever you need. Just make sure you turn your pumps off a minute or two before you take the picture so it isnt waving in the current.
The acan shot isnt bad, but it would benefit from having a bigger depth of field, to the point where you get all the tentacles in focus. You use a tripod? If not, you should. You can easily bump your fstop up to 9 or 11ish, and lower your shutter speed down to whatever you need. Just make sure you turn your pumps off a minute or two before you take the picture so it isnt waving in the current.
southstar066
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Thanks for the imput guys, I am using a tripod. So raise the shutter to get ride of the motion blur. and how do you get the whole picture focused? would that be raising the F-stop. I would like to get the outside, tentecles and mouth all in focus. thank fior the help
Hookup
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When doing macro shots you'll have a very short depth of field... There are dof calculators on-line to give you an-idea of how narrow...
Image stacking is a good solution to this problem, but that technique takes practice and a specialized software tool.
Remember,
DOF is a factor of Focal Length and Focal Distance and Aperture. You can modify any of those to change the DOF.
To Increase your DOF you can do any or all of the following;
Increase F-Stop (Aperture)
Increase you Distance to the subject (Focal Distance)
Decrease your Focal Length
The challenge with macro photography is, you want to...
Minimize the distance to subject (get close)
And the light is typically "low" so you want to increase your Aperture
And our subjects are "alive" and move, so you need to increase shutter speed.. which often means opening up the aperture... Or going to Higher ISO, which could introduce un-wanted noise.
Hope that helps and doesn't confuse...
Increasing the F-Stop number (F8 increased to F22) creates a larger depth of field.
Image stacking is a good solution to this problem, but that technique takes practice and a specialized software tool.
Remember,
DOF is a factor of Focal Length and Focal Distance and Aperture. You can modify any of those to change the DOF.
To Increase your DOF you can do any or all of the following;
Increase F-Stop (Aperture)
Increase you Distance to the subject (Focal Distance)
Decrease your Focal Length
The challenge with macro photography is, you want to...
Minimize the distance to subject (get close)
And the light is typically "low" so you want to increase your Aperture
And our subjects are "alive" and move, so you need to increase shutter speed.. which often means opening up the aperture... Or going to Higher ISO, which could introduce un-wanted noise.
Hope that helps and doesn't confuse...
Increasing the F-Stop number (F8 increased to F22) creates a larger depth of field.
southstar066
New member
Thanks for the advice. I did the changes Fstop to about 20 and and shutter speed at abot 1/200 for fish shooting. Now all I am getting is dark black photos. What am I doing wrond. Thanks for the help.
panic
Premium Member
F stop is a little confusing to me too. I just remember that the bigger the number, the smaller the hole that light gets in. So you have to compensate with a longer exposure to let more light in with more time. I can get better, more rich colors this way (I think). The opposite goes with moving objects.
xtm
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The more you "stop down" (bigger f-stop number), the greater the depth of field... meaning, a larger area is in focus. If you want to isolate a small object and blur the background, you'd want to "shoot wide open" (lower f-number).
When shooting macro, you have to experiment until you find the sweet spot on your lens. Too shallow and you don't get good focus... too great of a DOF (usually above f/32) can sometimes produce diffraction.
Don't be scared to use higher ISO's as you can easily clean it in post.
imcosmokramer
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aussie acan shot is great
