How Do You Guys Get Such Good Pictures Of Your Fish

[HurleyInferno]

seriously, my pictures are always blurry and you can never see the true beauty of the fish

 

[liz2]

Feed the fish, clean tank front, proper setting on camera, use standby, and lots of patience!

 

[PoptartShop]

Having a nice camera really plays a big part in it
I have a Canon & it's very nice; takes great clear pictures.
My HP camera that was cheap, doesn't take good pics at all of my fish.

 

[Robotochan]

I use the Camera on my Sony Ericsson K800i and most of the time the fish move before I get a chance to take a picture, end up with a close up shot of some Vallis

Although I sometimes get good shots like this one:

 

[poopsydrew]

dont feel bad I am awful at photos but heres my secret to good ones...

ask the gf if I can borrow her 1,000 dollar camera (shes a photo major) and the photos take themselves

Drew

 

[liz2]

Robotchan that is one clear picture....looks as if he might swim away any second

 

[ronanphilip]

there is some vgood info in this thread click here

 

[zippa]

I use the Camera on my Sony Ericsson K800i and most of the time the fish move before I get a chance to take a picture, end up with a close up shot of some Vallis

Although I sometimes get good shots like this one:

thats a real nice pic. i also use a k800i but dont get anywhere as good as those shots. any pointers?

 

[devon_charm]

I have a Finepix and tend to take lots and lots of pics then go through and use the better ones. For exampli i think i took 10 pics of the fish in my avatar and 7 were fuzzy. also strong lighting in the tank helps. You can also try puting him in a Ltr jar with a glass lid and a torch facing down through it this way your boy can't move too much, add a mirror or another betta next to him and you get some great poses

 

[jenis]

I have a Kodak Easy Share, the C875 one. It has a lot of different settings and a x5 zoom and 8MP so it's pretty good!
They are under $300, pretty good deal. (in the USA anyways.. bought mine there and saved over $100)
I also sometimes use a string light to light above the bowl because my place doesn't have very good lighting and turn the flash off.

 

[BlackRoseImmortal]

I usually take my pictures at night. Make sure all the lights are turned out except the aquariums lights.

 

[jennybugs]

Take millions of pics. For every ton I take only a handful are worthy of a second look.

Apart from that there are loads of technicalities but I take my pics with flash or at night with a fast shutter speed. It's luck of the draw for me as I'm stilll learning how to use my big camera to its full potential.
I'm getting there though

I won't tell you how many hours I spend sitting in front of my tanks taking pics

 

[Robotochan]

thats a real nice pic. i also use a k800i but dont get anywhere as good as those shots. any pointers?

I use BestPic and Document settings and just pray to god he stays still
Also, doing Auto Levels and duplicating the layer and setting it as Overlay with an Opaque level of around 30 -60 in photoshop helps

 

[juiced1300]

I use a Nikon D70 and lots of light. I think a lot of people forget that their eyes are much better at collecting light than any lens, so what you see is not what the camera see's. So light up the tank till it bugs you, then your right on the money
Heres a pic I took when I first got my delta tail "Ray". I need to take some new pics as now there's real plants in the tank, a long and low clear planter with gravel and miniture stem plants, a small java fern and a bed of java moss in the foreground. He uses the java moss for a bed at night, plus theres filters on my betta tanks now so they stay clean, no cloudy water what so ever =)