picture taking

[mickela]

I have a 8 mp kodak easyshare and I am able to get beautiful pictures of my 40 breeder tank but when I try to take pictures of my 48 gallon bow front everything comes out blurry,wrong colors etc.Can anyone give me an idea of how to do this I know the glass being bowed is part of mt problem and I dont use flash.

<a href="http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/mickela-2007/?action=view&current=101_0289.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/mickela-2007/101_0289.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
my 40 breeder picture

<a href="http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/mickela-2007/?action=view&current=101_0281.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/mickela-2007/101_0281.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> amd this is the 49 bow
any ideas would be great.

 

[nwrogers]

I am not sure what the trick is but I agree the curved front will make it harder for taking photos. If no one here can help you can always try out the photography forum. If you figure it out let me know because I would also like to know…

 

[mickela]

Nate the photos I took of your tank were awesome on my computer but when I went to walmart and had them printed off they all had a purple tint to them so I'm not sure what happened here

 

[fatrip]

you will not be able to get good pics of the bowfront. it is very difficult to near impossible to get a fully clear shot of the tank because of the curved glass. the only shots you will get, and they may come out blurry as well would be a FTS, but even that will be a bit blurry. the reason for this is also the way the camera auto focuses on things in the view finder. since on that camera you can not point focus it will be even harder to get a FTS that is clear as well.

with your pics at walmart, did you do any editing in the walmart kiosk? if not they might have some sort of auto white balance that would make the purple hue in the picture.

 

[mickela]

Well I guess this means I am gonna have to sweet talk the hubby into a new tank lol

 

[jacksonpt]

Does the lens have threads around it? Some cameras have threads around the lens to take adapter rings so you can use additional lenses with the camera (fish eye, tele, wide angle, etc). If yours does, buy the adapter ring but not any of the other lenses.

Screw the adapter ring on the camera, then put the ring right up against the glass. Use your macro focus (assuming the camera has one), and take pics when the room is completely dark except for the tank.

 

[mickela]

nope no rings on this one just the way my luck goes!!

 

[fatrip]

that would only work if you had a very very wide angle and even then it would be nearly impossible to get the whole picture in focus becasue the lense would have to be the exact angle as the glass. Plus if you could find a lense with that angle you would need a camera that would beable to put different lenses on. just screwing on another lense on top would only distort the photo more because of the way point and shoots take the photo.

but anywho, deff get a new tank...lol..or get some top downs. just get a small 2.5g tank and place it just below the water and you dont get the reflection of the lighting off the water. that is how i got Nates top down photos.