some of my Anemone & Clownfish pix

[mobert]

Wow, a few of my favorites and new ones too! Thanks for the eye candy!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13986533#post13986533 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
your tank seems really tall just wondering how easy it is for you to conduct manitanance. in my tanks its a pain in the *** but I have long arms

I have long arms and long fingers

Seriously, though....
for work in deep aquariums I couldn't do it without my bucket of tools: magnets, tongs, grabbers, dowels, powerheads etc. etc.

 

[heller792]

The clown in the first pic has some mighty teeth, wouldnt want to be bitten by her/him

 

[WDLV]

Too coo-el!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

 

[OrionN]

Well I am short with short arm. Working in my 30 inches deep and 30 inches wide aquarium is a pain in the ....
Nice pictures as always

 

[jtdesigns2]

amazing pics! I have a few questions if you don't mind me asking - what camera are you using? and what lighting for the aquarium?

currently i take pictures through the glass with a macro attachment on my canon xsi. I have two tanks and in the newest one i have 250w metal halide 20,000k. And it is completely washing out the color in my pictures.... i need to play around the iso and speed when i have time.

because of the quality i'm presuming that you have underwater equiment...


any tips?

thx,
Jt

 

[Novacaine]

nice looking onyx

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

thanks for all the compliments so far.

I use two stock cameras for my pix:
Canon Powershot A510 and Powershot A560. These are inexpensive point and shoot type cameras. I shoot through regular 1/2" thick glass on my 225 gallon aquarium. Lighting is a combo of halides, VHO actinics, sunlight and camera flash.
No underwater equipment used.

tips: learn to use your cam: play with manual camera settings and get your fishes used to seeing a camera. Use shutter speed of 1/60 sec or faster. Higher ISO makes pix grainy so choose a lower ISO whenever possible. Use flash when taking pix of fishes. Select the largest size picture your camera will allow and take lots of pictures- it's simple to delete any bad pictures.

 

[jtdesigns2]

these pics are incredible - especially after hearing how you do it...

thx - i will play around with my iso.

 

[Gator Pit]

Thanks for the beautiful pictures. Amazing.
It's nice to know there is hope for those of us with point and shoot cameras.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

 

[jasonrp104]

I've said it before: You have one of my favorite tanks on this site.

 

[vwwanksta69]

nice pictures

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

this gigantea attached to rockwork (completely above sand bed) several months ago

 

[2Addicted]

My tank wants to be just like yours when it grows up. That gigantea and the mag are intense! I love the pictures!

 

[davocean]

Beautiful tanks/nems/clowns, and amazing pics!
Hard to believe you're getting all that w/ P&S cams.

 

[clowns101]

Nice pictures!He has grown alot IMO.Looks like he has taken out a few corals behind him I see?

EDIT:What type of camera do you use?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

thanks for all of the nice feedback

Nice pictures!He has grown alot IMO.Looks like he has taken out a few corals behind him I see?

EDIT:What type of camera do you use?

this gigantea killed a number of corals (mostly Acropora) when it attached up on the rockwork.

99% of my pix are taken with a Canon A510 Powershot on manual mode.
The remaining pix (mostly the extreme macros) are taken with a Canon A560 Powershot

 

[clowns101]

Sorry to hear about your acros.I would hate to lose mine.

Nice pictures with that camera.I had no idea they had this capability.

So your getting the macros with this camera right?

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/digital_cameras/powershot_a_series/powershot_a560