Fish photography

[Rab]

Garry recently mentioned taking pictures of fish.
These are a few of my efforts.

Parkinson's Rainbow Fish


Clown trigger


Goldfish variety


Swordtail


Copperband


More can be seen in my gallery album Fishy things

[Garry]

Re: Fish photography

From seeing these and recognising some of these fish. These were obviously taken I some large public aquarium. Yes?

If so. What was your set up, Rab. Were you able to use tri-pod? Or are these hand held, and is the lighting purely from the building and aquariums ?

Really enjoyed seeing these, and the fish in your gallery.
All very well photographed.

[Rab]

Re: Fish photography

From seeing these and recognising some of these fish. These were obviously taken I some large public aquarium. Yes?

Thanks Garry but of the 5 above only the Trigger and Copperband were in Public Aquaria. the other 3 were in friends fish tanks.

All are hand held, very few with flash (it generally kills the colours or creates havoc with reflections). I generally underexpose - keeping the shutter speed up - and then tweak in DPP. Tripod is not used much because most often you are tracking the fish around the tank.

I'll go through the album and if I can I will log them as Public Aquarium or home tanks.

[Garry]

Re: Fish photography

Thanks for the info. I didn't think you would have used a tri-pod.
I seldom use flash, and couldn't see that it could be used for the reasons you stated.

[Rodbender]

Re: Fish photography

I went to sealife a few weeks ago and they do not allow flash which is good considering how most of the public have no regard for the fish. Biggest problem was the finger marks all over the glass. Getting the lens almost in contact with the glass helps with reflections. Poor lighting is another problem. Still I managed to get a couple of reasonable shots. See below.

[Garry]

Re: Fish photography

Two nice shots, Ron.

I like Moray eels. I have seen little and large. They can look quite intimidating.
How long would you say this one was ?

[Rodbender]

Re: Fish photography

To be honest Garry I have no idea. What you can see is about 2 foot long and 10 inches thick. I have found that the glass and water tend to make fish look bigger so this size I give could be wrong.

[Ian]

Re: Fish photography

Interesting - I have had a 120 litre freshwater tropical tank for about 12 years and it's currently populated by 8 variously coloured Platys (all males!) and five Pepper Corys (all but one of which are rather small as they are quite young).

I got rid of the old internal filter and pump this year and last year switched to LED lighting. The plants tend to go bonkers and I have to slash them back periodically. I'm adding liquid carbon daily, not CO2 gas. I currently have a problem with hair algae but at least BGA, which was a problem for a long time, seems to have been fixed by the switch to a larger external canister filter.

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Fish photography

Some of my platys this evening - eagerly awaiting a feed!





I forgot to include the exif data - these were shot on an OM-D E-M1 with12-40 Pro @40mm and f/4 (1/400th top and 1/100th below) @ISO 3200.

Ian

[Rab]

Re: Fish photography

Nice healthy looking fish.
My last aquarium was 500 litres planted dutch style but sadly I only have some very poor film prints of it. I just keep a pond now