Raw macro

[maxalmon]

Playing around with raw macros today, got a few more images to edit and upload.

 

[klepto]

cool shot- what is your light source for this shot?

 

[maxalmon]

Thanks.. Lighting is 250w Phoenix and actinic, about 12" away.

Here is another

 

[maxalmon]

And another

 

[klepto]

Looks like daylight almost!
nice work on balancing your temp in raw.

 

[maxalmon]

Thanks, just wish I had more corals to photograph....I got rid of most everything about 6months ago as I was going to get out of the hobby then I changed my mind after I had gotten rod of my rarest stuff, now I have to restock.....

 

[maxalmon]

These were fun to stage, took a while, lighting is a little off..

 

[Slakker]

Awesome shots!!

Did you move your light around to light all of these perfectly, or is there some other trick?

 

[maxalmon]

My tank is designed in such a way that I have multiple areas that I can use for lighting, shots were done with a single MH and then the corals were staged or moved around untill I got the pefrect lighting (well almost)

This shot is a little irritating as I can't move the cloves and the xenia behind it is distracting, but makes for an interesting shot

 

[IslandCrow]

Very nice! The EXIF data says no, but did you use flash for any of these. The lighting is excellent, especially in the first one.

 

[maxalmon]

No flash, This is a small tank (40g) with a foam back system that I designed specifically for coral photography. Let me dig up the thread on it's build and it may help other to understand how I stage my shots. Funny how the first shot was taken after I moved the polyps off the stage and placed it on the bottom left side of the tank away from the lights.
Jim

 

[maxalmon]

Here is the link to my foamback tank that I've used in all these photos. The tank was designed for photography so that I would have areas of the tank that had unobstructed areas so that I would not have any background noise, there's an area in the middle where the back of the tank has no foam and I have a pure black background.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1483341

 

[maxalmon]

Next I'm going to try some HDR shots

 

[BobCReef]

I really like the clove polyp shot. I would crop out the xenia, you may lose a polyp or two but would be worth it

 

[maxalmon]

These are corals from a fellow reefers tank.

 

[klepto]

mmm- what kind of monti is that second shot? and the first colony is a..?

 

[maxalmon]

(the above 2 corals are from a fellow reefers tank)
The second one is Atlantis Pink Polyp....3rd one I'm not sure....I'll ask the guy who owns the tank/corals.. I've got about 50 photos from the shoot today, Bob has some incredible corals, lots of acans to follow

 

[Slakker]

The first photo (of the most recent post) looks like a hydnophora to my untrained eyes.

Great shots!!!