First Attempt Of Taking Pictures Of Fish

[a1wonder]

Last week after two months of begging I actually convinced my friend to let me use his digi cam to take pictures of my fish and after another week of waiting for him to take them off his camera I now can share a few with you.

Please be kind these are my first attempts of attempting to get a clear shot of my beauties and none of these pictures turned out clear enough to show their true coloring an uniqueness.

My only male betta

a picture of my largest tank (hopefully will be upgraded in the next couple of months)

cute little cory that is claiming no responablity to knocking over one of my custom plants

 

[a1wonder]

Here is my resently adopted kissing gourami who has survied two tank burst (at a neighbours house and lived to tell the tail). While she wouldn't get out of most of my pictures I attempted to take should wouldn't also stay still. This is the best out of 20 attempts.

And my red hook one of which would stay still long enough for me to snap

 

[BlueIce]

beautiful fish and for the first time taking fish pics these are very good

 

[Angry_Platy]

I like the betta setup...the bamboo looks good

 

[Vip]

cool piranha

 

[Ben]

the pic of the pirahna is awsome

that tank looks really big and so does that kissing fishm what size is the tank?

 

[a1wonder]

the pic of the pirahna is awsome

Piranha
*looks madly into the tank for the killer fish j/k
actually I don't own a single piranha I think the fish you are refering to is the Schreitmuller's Metynnis (Metynnis hypsauchen) or also known as the Red Hook Silver Dollars. They will grow no where close to the same size of their reliatives the silver dollar or the a piranha.

I'll see if I can get my friend to come over once more and take a couple better shots of the fish I find in comparison to silver dollars they kind of sparkle like jewels.

The large tank in the photo is a 33 gal long I got it used but it's a custom made one it's 18 high and 36 long (I belive maybe longer can't remeber off hand). If I got an upgrade that I could afford than the tank would just become deeper which isn't really a priorty at this time (planning up and saving for a 60gal+ to make a noticeable differance).

I noticed that some of my pictures turned out really burry I was attempting to use macro mode with no flash can anyone sugest ways on improving this. I was warned "never to use flas" the camera takes about 3.4mb pixel so I guess I can just up the quality.

 

[fufanu360]

i thot that looked like a silver dollar, my silver dollars have orange on there anal fins too but not quite that much

 

[a1wonder]

Due to the poor quality of the picture you really can't tell, but the fins are actually tipped with a deep dark red very far from orange.

This is really encouraging me to drag my friend over here again to take better shots.

 

[parker313]

For the macro mode, you have to be as close as possible and still targets help a lot too. For the faster fish, I'd actually suggest using the action mode instead. You might not get as crisp a shot as a still fish with macro, but I've had better luck for faster fish using action mode.

 

[cometcattle]

Great pics. Your SD is beautiful.

 

[a1wonder]

Thanks very much for the very nice comments.

I'm off to look up the manual how to use actions shot. if I'm using flash will it really show up in the picture? IOW will there be a huge star burst because of this?

 

[parker313]

The big thing I noticed about using flash is that it just reflected off the fish - either the scales or the slime coat and I had trouble getting a good shot. The best way to avoid a reflection off the glass is to angle your camera slightly. Your pics had plenty of light in them though, I don't think a flash would add to your pic quality.