Playing with the camera
 

Here's a few shots, trying to tweak the camera. And a better lens and tripod would help :)

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/9.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/1.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/2.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/3.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/4.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/5.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/6.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/7.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd101/reef_raf/8.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...eef_raf/10.jpg

Those are some sweeeeeet:biggrin: shots

WoW!!! Love the variety of SPS you have in your tank (and fish too)! Boy, would I love the opportunity to see your tank, live! I could spend hours and days playing with my camera in front of your tank ( I would even pay you LOL)! Awesome tank (from one Van Isle guy to another.
PS what are you shooting with?

RR, you're welcome over anytime, you can even take pictures for free -lol

I'm using a Nikon D40 with stock lens, having trouble with white balance for starters, gotta run them thru photoshop to clean them up. It sucks, because the colors are much nicer in person. I'm going to try a box for the top down shots, and keep playing with settings. PM me closer to the weekend and see if we can get you in here.

Brad,

Will do! Try setting your WB to 10000K. I find manual adjustment to the WB better. Have fun with it! I know it is frustrating at times but so is growing and caring your reef, right? Now you have two bad and expensive habbits LOL

I don't have that option (as far as I know). A bunch of presets, then a custom that gives me an error most of the time, and crap pictures the rest of the time :)

Gorgeous man. Looks better everytime I see it. In the first pic on the right... is that a pearlberry? looks a lot like the frag I just picked up...

Thanks. Not sure which one you mean, but I didn't buy anything called a pearlberry :)

Try increasing your ISO, to increase your shutter speed. This would help as most things in the tank move.

If you are shooting through the glass, turn off all the room lights and get as close to the glass as you can. Also try to shoot at a perpendicular angle so the diffraction doesn't mess with the auto-focus.

Wow some really nice colonies going on there. Were these all 1" frags six months ago??

Tony, most of them were, although some were stunted colonies from my previous tank. Nothing more than 3 inches tho, so everything has done well in 6 months.

sweet looking tank & scaping. great colors.

Thanks!

:shocked!: Wholley doodle Brad. Is it ever doing good. Nice pics.....nice corals.

Looking good Brad. Well deserved results. Its gonna fill in nicely.
More pics.... ya!

Tyler, you're alive!! I sent you an email last week, haven't heard back :) How's your tank??

did you set your custom with a piece of white paper becide the tank so the tank lights are on it? lots of new growth and new corals since I was there last

Steve

Steve, that's what I tried, but kept getting an error on the camera...

Wow! Lookin' fine Brad. Those Caps are specially nice.

Looking fantastic. Great pics. I cant for the life of me figure out how to take nice true looking pics like yours. I looked back at several pages of your many many posts to see if you have a thread about the pictured tank but couldnt find one. Do you have one so the rest of us can see whats under the "hood"? I would love to have results like this one day in my sps tank. Great job!
Thanks
Dave

Dave, I don't have a tank thread, just never have the time. It's a pretty simple setup, 180g, 75g sump, ATO, large DIY Ca reactor with Mg media added, carbon changed monthly, use a Zeo reactor and supplements, 3 x 400w Raium MH with supplemental actinic. 50g water change every other week. ER CS8-3 skimmer cleaned often. 1/2hp chiller plumbed remotely to keep things cool, feed at least once a day, usually twice. 2 inch sugarsand on the bottom, probably would rethink that decision :)
Apex controller to keep it all going (not a requirement, just easier). That's it. Pretty easy.
Look up Dez's TOTM thread, he goes into great detail on his stuff, with a simple lazy approach, and it works really well. Pretty much my philosophy, without the huge water changes -lol

Edit: forgot flow. 2x Tunze 6100 streams. Run different profiles from Apex depending on light cycle. Might add a wavebox if I can figure out how to fix it :)

Thanks. Easy sounding. You and Dez clearly have a knack for things sps.
Either way... Very, very nice!

Nice stuff Brad. I especially like the red Digi, color looks insane.

I cant wait to see what it looks like in April:mrgreen::mrgreen:.

not too bad for a rookie:mrgreen:

Brad, this is really a GORGEOUS "little ocean" with dominant sps corals you have created in there.

Brad I stole this pic for my phone background, b-e-a-utiful

where was I when this was originally posted?.....and why exactly do you not post more pics???.....thats a saweet looking tank you have there mang