New toy, so posting pics!

[Palting]

Christmas came early, got a new caera. Taking a bunch of shots to get comfortable with it. Here are some noob photo shots from a noob reefer! Feel free to comment/critisize shots, tank, reef, photography, whatever!

FTS:

One of the denizens, name is Remus. His twin is called Romulus:

A zoa tower:

Blue mushroom rock, or is it purple?

A developing red mushroom rock:

The island of waving sirens:

 

[Palting]

Gorgoniam banished to an island:

Blastomussa enjoying the shade from an outcropping:

Two juvenile sps, soon to be battling for clear space:

 

[Palting]

An acro, don't know the type, yet, but seems appropriate for the season:

A pillar of Ricordea, one of two pillars:

I am coming pods, heh-heh-heh-hehhhhhhh:

 

[Palting]

The world is sooo heavy on my back:

 

[turboex901]

when i read the first sentence and saw your avatar, i thought you meant to type i got a new carrera! i see now you meant camera. nice tank!

 

[Palting]

Lol!! I wish! Thanks for the compliment.

If only it were that easy, just transpose the m from camera with an rr and get a carrera. But, this new addiction is eating up resources, so the cars in the avatar will have to be the same cars for a while.

 

[scubasteve06]

Nice camera and shots Palting! What kind of camera did early Santa bring you?

 

[Palting]

Thanks, Steve. It's a Canon EOS 60D DSLR with 18-135 mm lens. Back in the day, I had a collection of filters, lenses, and a collection of techniques for shots. In the present day of electronic wizardry, you just have to press a dookickey and twirl a thingamajig, and presto, shot is done. Now, I just have to figure out how to convert my ancient manual techniques to this electronic whatchamacallit

Here's a plain Jane full auto of a rescued frogspawn:

And here is one where the camera was outsmarting me at first. In full auto, the central part of the candycane is bleached out because the darn camera looks at it all adjusts for the whole pic. I went to full manual, and it still got bleached out despite anything I did to shutter speed and aperture. Stumped me for a while, until I realized the darn camera was compensating my compensating by slowing down the ISO! No such thing in my day!. Finally made the ISO manual as well, and I got the shot:

 

[bigdoug]

Nice shots palting, might have to get me one of those thingamajigs, but first have to figure out why my livestock is perishing one by one........ so much to learn and only so much time.

 

[Palting]

Sorry to hear that, bigdoug. I'll check out your posts and see if I can help.

 

[scubasteve06]

Keep on twirling the doohickey...I'm sure you'll get the whatchamacallit down pat soon enough

 

[bhammer]

That's a nice body. Too bad you still don't have that collection of lenses, if they were Canon. That's where things start getting real expensive.

I think I take the majority of my aquarium pictures with a 16-35/2.8. That allows me great close-ups and more broad range. It'll focus down to just under 1'. If I want to get the whole setup, I use my 18-135/3.5-... It's a great all around lense. The only real advantage to the other lense is the f stop.

 

[Ryan-UF]

A bit off topic but that is a very pretty mandarin, don't see them that dark for sale in Cali all that often.

Good shots, keep it up! Photography can be a fun hobby.

 

[scubasteve06]

Yea ryan most the ones I see are lighter gray with just green 'targets'. They don't have that orange ring around the green ring like Palting's does.

 

[Palting]

Thanks for the compliments and replies, guys.

bhammer, you are a bad influence . The 18-135 is a 3.5, so it works OK. I am lusting for a lens that will show me a single polyp on an acro without me actually dunking the camera into the tank. Any sugggestions? For now, I'll just have to be content on cropping and blowing up the pics.

Ok. Moonlight shots:

Zoa tower under the pale moonlight. Pics don't quite pick up on the luminescence of the polyps. Any tips?

 

[scubasteve06]

Wow palting your tank takes on a whole different look when the moon lights are on! Have you ever thought about going to a more blue MH bulb? It really compliments your tank tons! What are the K of your MH's?

 

[Palting]

The MH 15K. Any more blue, I'd get less growth though. Or do I have it backwards? Anyway, that pic is with blue moonlight LED's, 5 watts, and the pic is lighter than real life.

Red flower anemone. I think I'm getting the hang of this flourescence. Digital certainly makes experimenting cheap! No wasted film!