Photographing Your Fish

[allan078]

I've tried many times, and failed. They're just too quick to focus on, and autofocus just wants to focus on the tank all the time. I'm generally not a bad photographer, but i cannot for the life of my photograph my fish! (not well, anyway!)

Any suggestions?


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[Axyadbad]

This should be useful..this forum seems to have everything....
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/19038-taking-great-fish-photos-how-to/

 

[awolace]

Set your camera to manual focus and focus on a particular spot. Change your settings to shutter priority and select a fast shutter speed. 1/500 or bigger. Your camera should select a high ISo to compensate and wide aperture. Then just wait for the fish to enter the frame. May take a big of practice and will definately be easier on a dslr as there's no shutter lag but you'll get there.

 

[allan078]

Thanks

I've got a dslr so I'll give it a go!

 

[Gvilleguy]

Agree...with dslr manual focus is the way to go. A lens with a lower F stop is also helpful for letting in light and stopping movement without a flash. I bought an F1.8 this summer and noticed a big difference.

 

[allan078]

Well i went away and tried it. Thanks very much! With the increased shutter speed i couldnt get enough natural light in, and the built in flash just reflected on the glass. I used my external flash with it pointing skywards, worked a treat! Here's the results.

Heavily pregnant guppy in her birthing tank.

One of my platies

 

[Gvilleguy]

Excellent pictures! Look at the grains of sand...great focus.

 

[allan078]

Thanks! I'm well happy with my new fish photographing abilities lol.

One more!

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I think this is my entire problem with my camera... I can't adjust the shutter speed far as I can tell!