New kids in town - Page 2

Delphinus · #1 01-24-2010, 09:30 PM

Thanks. Yeah, that's about the discard rate for me as well. Guess that's par for the course then .. I was just playing around with the camera settings and found that I was shooting in JPEG instead of raw, so I changed that and will see how things change from here on. The thing that annoys me is that I have the ISO equivalency set to 1600 which is enormous and explains the graininess but the shots are way too unusably dark if I don't have it that way. Maybe it's just a limitation of how much light the lens lets in???

Delphinus · #2 01-24-2010, 09:37 PM

I think the angels might be . er .. what's the word. Dichromatic? Dimorphic? Serial .. no .. um .. sexual sequential hermaphrodite (ok I looked that last one up on wiki). Eventually the female might turn into a male so you could always start there and see where it goes?

lastlight · #3 01-25-2010, 05:41 AM

Wow that last shot especially shows how beautiful the fish really is. Your videos didn't do the colors and details justice...wowzers =)

Delphinus · #4 02-24-2010, 08:52 AM

Just messing around with a camera tonight, there were a couple keepers.

Check out the girth of the lavender .. I think he approves of the autofeeder.

That's the best shot I have of him tonight. He's a fast little bugger and impossible to photograph. You can tell they are from the surf zone. Also as soon as he realized I had a camera he made himself scarce. As soon as I put it away he was out again and up at the glass, taunting me. "Hey, what's up? Aren't I pretty? You need a photo of me to show other people how pretty I am." I'm pretty sure it was the camera actually that had him spooked. People he's more or less associated with food so is generally pretty friendly otherwise.

I'm amazed at how much this guy can change colours. At times he (she?) can be as blue as a tropical cloudless sky.. Ok, you can't see it HERE in this particular photo, just use your imagination OK? Sheesh.

Doesn't really fit in the theme of this thread but too lazy to post it somewhere else..

And, hmm ok I guess I did manage a second sorta-passable shot of the lavender. I love how his caudal fin is becoming swallow-tail-ish-esque..

Thanks for looking..