Dez' Tank Journal

[BlueTang<3]

what lens do u use to shoot your pics ??? lighting and flow ?? I wanna learn to take shots like u.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

what lens do u use to shoot your pics ??? lighting and flow ?? I wanna learn to take shots like u.

Hey Wes, I actually just use a waterproof point and shoot. It's an Olympus Stylus tough that I use for vacations. It was fairly inexpensive. Just stick it in the water, and take pictures. I leave all my flow on, and mostly it's just the 14k halides that are on when I take pictures because I have to take my T5's off to access inside the tank. There are no colour corrections on any pictures because I don't even know how to do any of that, but the colours are generally true to real life. Hope this helps.

[BlueTang<3]

interesting i know those are ur colours seen the tank could stare into it for days

[Dez]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

interesting i know those are ur colours seen the tank could stare into it for days

The ones taken through the glass are all the growth sequence ones and they are pretty much all out of focus. It's too hard to take pictures through glass. I don't use a tripod though. I find the top down and in tank shots much easier.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Dez

Hey Wes, I actually just use a waterproof point and shoot. It's an Olympus Stylus tough that I use for vacations. It was fairly inexpensive. Just stick it in the water, and take pictures. I leave all my flow on, and mostly it's just the 14k halides that are on when I take pictures because I have to take my T5's off to access inside the tank. There are no colour corrections on any pictures because I don't even know how to do any of that, but the colours are generally true to real life. Hope this helps.

Sadly I have the same camera but any underwater shoots I've tried to take in my tank never turn out very good What exact settings are you using?

[Dez]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Sadly I have the same camera but any underwater shoots I've tried to take in my tank never turn out very good What exact settings are you using?

I just use the underwater macro setting and turn the flash off. I find that the flash washes out everything, even when taking regular pictures outside of the water. The flash on that camera is a little "strong". I'm pretty happy with the camera as it's the first digital point and shoot I've bought new. All my other digital cameras were hand me downs from my dad to my brother to me, so this is a treat.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Dez

I just use the underwater macro setting and turn the flash off. I find that the flash washes out everything, even when taking regular pictures outside of the water. The flash on that camera is a little "strong". I'm pretty happy with the camera as it's the first digital point and shoot I've bought new. All my other digital cameras were hand me downs from my dad to my brother to me, so this is a treat.

Hummmm flash off good to know. My pic.'s look washed out, but I've never turned the flash off, I'll have to try without a flash. Thanks for the advice

[Dez]

Since I sold some frags recently. I used that money to invest more into my reef. Here are some pictures of the goodies. I'm pretty excited.

Here is a tabling acro:



Another purchase today - Hawaiian Flame Wrasse. Absolutely no one is bothering him in my tank. I was quite worried about my twin spot hog bothering him but I got lucky. He was eating frozen food at the store so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Sorry for the fuzzy picture, he's a fast swimmer.


I also bought a clam last week:


And another one:


And a pink pocci:


Pretty excited about my purchases. I bought a couple of other things that are sitting in my frag tank to see if they colour up at all. We'll see. Thanks for looking.

[Parker]

Thou shalt not covet thy forum members tank!

Beautiful Tank Dez!

[Dez]

A few random quick shots from tonight:

Yellow Acro - good growth tips


Unknown smooth yellow acro


Purple Pocci, my friend started this as a tiny frag, and it was about half this size when I got it a few months back.


Elegance - my one clown fish goes in here once in a while.


Standard run of the mill pokerstar - I have a feeling my other corals are gonna shade this one , but I can't get it off because it's encrusted all over my live rock.


Unknown baby blue/teal stag. Started as a small tiny white frag that I found out a day later was INFESTED with red bugs the next day. Treated the whole tank for red bugs and this coloured up so nicely. Defnitely one of my favs.


Green Hulk Monti - I have no idea what kind of monti it is but I am diggin these growth tips pattern. This coral has changed so much since I got it.


Lemon Lime Gemmifora I think - LOVE this coral. Slow grower. But I'm finally getting multiple growth tips and encrustation.


I call this my Rusty Acro - when I got it from my friend, it was rust colour, now it's got a pink hue to it. I'm excited for this to grow out. It's probably grown by a third already.


Snappy's Orange Grove - this was just a single nub when I got it. I am digging the thick growth.


Rare baby-blue polyped digi - what a fast grower. I've always liked the digi's growth patterns.


Lobsterboy-bi's pineapple express - this started out as one branch. I like it.


I have no idea what this is, but I like it. ID anyone?