Hazara Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Playing with my new cam - unfortunately the kit lens absolutely sucks at macros, and wont deliver a sharp image at this sort of range. I'm also playing with some new photoshop methods. Wather change and glass scrubbing over the weekend so hopefully I can do better! http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/hazara/glowlight-1.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNOWKIWI Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Wish I could take a photo as clear as this!!! What type of camera and lens are you using? I have tried to take photos of my tanks, but so far none are good enough to put on this site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazara Posted January 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Hi snow - I'm using an eos 400, but I don't recommend it (not the stock kit anyway). The lens is not so good for closeup work - in fact it stinks. Was a lot easier with my old fujifilm finepix s5000 and a simple adaptor. Play with your camera settings photographing plants first - see what angles etc work, fish are more luck than anything else IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNOWKIWI Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Thanks Hazara, I also have a Canon, Eos 350D though, I haven't tried it with tank photos yet, I was using an Olympus FE-170 in Macro mode, but I might charge the batteries for my Sony Cybershot, as I have had good success with other subjects in the past. It's just a case of getting around to it though!!!! I am due for a bit of glass scrubbing and water changing myself over the weekend, so will maybe give it another try, a couple of hours after the maintenance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilknieval69 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Another nice photo hazara Just wondering, how do you do the cool edging around your photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Various photo editing programmes will do border for you evil. I think the key to Hazara's quality in the pics is the amount of light he uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilknieval69 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 yea I've had a play around in photoshop but cant get it to do borders like hazaras ones. The picture is still there, but is darker and distorted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazara Posted January 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 Hey guys thanks for the kind comments! I just use the onboard camera flash, but it takes a while learning which angles work (my tank is a bowfront so it's really tricky). Also setting the camera to manual and really stopping it down, with as higher shutter speed as the flash can synch with makes quite a difference. LOL I think I understand that - I'm a self taught person. Also knowing a bit about photo touchup software helps - I spent a lot of time on this photo as an experiment. The borders I use - the older film frame ones are from my previous camera - I used a full frame print border I scanned and applied that to all my finepix s5000 photos. The new border is simpler - just a 50% black soft light fill. There are hundreds of programmes that can add borders, but the fancier the worse in my opinion! @ Snow Try the 350d in manual and dont be afraid to take a hundred or more photos using different settings! I swear the kit lens from the 350d I tested was better than the 400d, photos were a little sharper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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