Some random coral shots under T5's and UV

sphelps · #1 02-25-2013, 01:15 PM

Sweet pics man, nice to see you posting here again. Does this mean a build thread will be starting?

lastlight · #2 02-25-2013, 02:26 PM

sweet shots for sure!

what are these? i love'em:

Scythanith · #3 02-26-2013, 02:15 AM

I believe they are Zoanthids.

No names, just nice corals.

I will be once I get the tank here Steve. Build threads are boring without tank pictures!

krazykarl · #4 02-26-2013, 02:35 AM

Great Shots! I can wait till I get a Macro for my Nikon and lear how to adjust the WB correctly.

Scythanith · #5 02-26-2013, 03:09 AM

A good start for WB is to set your camera to custom WB (PRE). If you have a Nikon it likely looks like this on the top:

Hold down the WB on the left and spin the thumb dial on the right until the little "A" goes to "PRE". Hold down the WB button until it blinks "PRE" in the right window. You are now ready to take a picture of something that is near neutral grey in your tank. Make sure the lights in your tank are all on, and snap a picture of the blandest part of your live rock, white or grey it doesn't really matter. If the camera accepts the WB, it will blink "GooD", if it doesn't try again. Just try to fill the frame with the rock work. Now shoot away in your tank and the WB should at least be better than on "A" setting.

If you don't want to do all that you can try the cloudy WB setting or dial it up to 10,000K in the manual WB mode.

Have fun!

ckmullin · #6 02-26-2013, 03:18 AM

Have this same 105 Nikkor lens...it's a beauty!

(nice shots too)

daplatapus · #7 02-26-2013, 03:19 AM

WOW, wicked pics. I love that eyeball shot in the first one

Scythanith · #8 02-26-2013, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

WOW, wicked pics. I love that eyeball shot in the first one

It was hard to get a good focus on that guy. Had to switch to manual and just wait for his swaying to stop.

scubadawg · #9 02-26-2013, 04:02 AM

Great pics, I have the D800 and D700 in FF
Have the 105mm VR, the old 105mm and 60mm micro.
Actually I have 15 Nikkor premimum lens

Have 2 D200's and Light and Motion and Sea & Sea underwater housings.

I'm upgrading my housing to the Sea&Sea D800 housing and 2 - Sea&Sea YS-D1 Strobes in the next couple of months.

sphelps · #10 02-26-2013, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Scythanith

I will be once I get the tank here Steve. Build threads are boring without tank pictures!

Second time's the charm I hope