New Camera :)

[hensonc4098]

Hi everyone

Finally got a DSLR camera after many months of pondering whether to get one or not, and I must say, it is FANTASTIC! I ended up getting the Nikon D3000 after reading that it was good for first time SLR owners (like me ) and I am so happy with how easy it is to get great pictures!

Anyway, enough chat - a couple of piccys (well, that is what you're here for )

Female Balloon GBR

Harlequins

Fat tummy - just been fed

FTS

Thanks for looking! Comments and constructive criticism welcome! Hopefully I'll have some more soon.

Claire

 

[razer121]

wow there some nice photos!! i think i may have to look into that camera....

 

[Bebobb]

I'm loving the tank shot that you have! That ram looks really small! Must be a juvinile! Hasn't had time to show it's true beauty.

 

[Scrotius]

nice shots!, Im a Canon user myself, what lens are you using with that?

 

[hensonc4098]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments

The Canons are good cameras - my auntie has a Canon, but I can't remember which model... I was quite tempted by a Sony from the point of view of it having the built in anti-shake, but the Nikon ended up winning

I took them just with the standard kit lens which is an 18-55mm VR (anti-shake) zoomed right in to 55mm and on manual focus as I find the autofocus is just a little too sluggish to keep up with the fishes movement. I then cropped the clearest ones to get what you see there.

The FTS I did in my room with no lights on and no flash with a slightly longer shutter speed of 1/4 second (I sat the camera on a box on my bed to reduce shake), on fluorescent 4 lighting and ISO 100.

I was quite lucky that when I was photographing the harlequins, I noticed on one of them a tiny little bit of whitespot and was able to nip it in the bud, whereas I may not have noticed it normally until it was worse.

I seem to have a bit of a green algae problem on the glass as this tank gets some direct sunlight during the day. I'm wondering whether to get a snail or a suckermouth loach or something to control it - I did have a couple of ottos in there but the tank wasn't really big enough to have enough algae to sustain a few of them... Suggestions? Otherwise it's once or twice weekly glass cleaning

Thanks again for looking - as always, comments and constructive criticism welcome

Claire

 

[Scrotius]

nice one you could probably get away with a higher ISO in exchange for a faster shutter speed, shouoldnt be able to tell the difference between 100 and 200 when you've scaled the shots down

twice weekly algae scraping! thats fast growth!
my plec does a good job keeping mine clean (apart from he contributes about 60% of the #105### in the whole tank), I find it doesnt matter how many snails you have, they won't hoover it up fast enough

 

[hensonc4098]

Ok thanks - I'll probably try that tonight and see how it goes

I know - the algae is crazy Its not even like I'm using lots of ferts or anything - I don't use anything, ferts or carbon and it grows like crazy Just goes to show what a bit of sunlight can do... What about a couple of ottos then? I have them in my other tank and they do a good job of cleaning up etc in there so maybe I could have a couple and suppliment them if needs be?

I've just spied my plec from my other tank on the glass so I'm away to try and get a photo of his mouth - he seems to have some kind of fungus thing in it which I want to put on here to see what people think

Thanks again

Claire

Oh #39#### - he moved before I got to my camera Oh well

 

[Scrotius]

never had ottos before, I can only vouch for Percy - my plec

 

[hensonc4098]

Haha good name

Plecs are great but just too big for this tank - it's only 10g I'll maybe "borrow" a couple of ottos from the other tank and see how they do

I will take more pics I promise, but just really busy just now with exams...

Thanks for looking

Claire

ps Still haven't managed to catch a pic of the plec lol

Edit - typo

 

[razer121]

never had ottos before, I can only vouch for Percy - my plec

omg my daughter called her plec percy how odd? lol

good luck with your exams...but get us some more pics!!

 

[hensonc4098]

good luck with your exams...but get us some more pics!!

Haha Thanks! I'll try! Not got many more fish to photograph though... S'pose the angelfish could be my next subject

 

[onebto]

Nice pictures I am so tempted to get a DSLR

Regards onebto

 

[hensonc4098]

All I can say is if you want great quality pictures, get one. I know they're expensive but trust me, they're worth it! I dithered over it for ages and eventually got one and am so glad I did. I'm planning on using this as a bit of a "camera for life" bar a cheaper compact that I'll use for places where I don't feel comfortable taking an expensive camera (parties etc) and maybe just buy additional lenses as I go along, but being only 16, the cameras got plenty time to show me it's true capabilities!

ATB

Claire

 

[hensonc4098]

Okay! As demanded, some new pics! There's only a couple and they aren't fantastic, but there we go

Young VT angelfish

Columbian Tetra

Plec

Thanks again,
Claire

 

[blodhi74]

Great pics.