Hey guys,
After recently seeing Jedi's thread and the amazing shots they're taking. It got me motivated to pull out the D5100 camera & tripod and give it a shot myself.
Now I've never been particularly great at photos, but will occasionally take the odd one that I feel is decent or semi proud of (including outside of reef photography). I don't have that much practice up my sleeve as I'll only pick up the camera once every blue moon for a brief time or a single group of shots nor do I consider myself to be any decent but I've always been envious of those who're able to capture beauty in a shot.
I had a quick read of the how to take pictures of your corals thread that's pinned in this sub forum, mainly reading the first post.. tried to figure out the settings on the camera and away I went.
Here's a few shots that have some things I like - would be great to get some feedback/advice as who knows, maybe it'll keep me motivated to keep practicing and produce some better stuff!
I was happy with the focus on the blenny hiding in the rockwork and that you can make out some details around the works like algae etc. Not a fan over the overexposed sand, or the motion blur from the xenia.
I don't know much about the details of the shot but I'll provide the info that I can read in the photo details.
f/5.3 - 2 sec exposure - ISO-100
Probably one of my clearer images I've done of this morph
f/11 - 1.3 sec exposure - ISO-100
This one is also one of the clearest shots I think I've taken of this group.
same settings
Thanks for looking!
After recently seeing Jedi's thread and the amazing shots they're taking. It got me motivated to pull out the D5100 camera & tripod and give it a shot myself.
Now I've never been particularly great at photos, but will occasionally take the odd one that I feel is decent or semi proud of (including outside of reef photography). I don't have that much practice up my sleeve as I'll only pick up the camera once every blue moon for a brief time or a single group of shots nor do I consider myself to be any decent but I've always been envious of those who're able to capture beauty in a shot.
I had a quick read of the how to take pictures of your corals thread that's pinned in this sub forum, mainly reading the first post.. tried to figure out the settings on the camera and away I went.
Here's a few shots that have some things I like - would be great to get some feedback/advice as who knows, maybe it'll keep me motivated to keep practicing and produce some better stuff!
I was happy with the focus on the blenny hiding in the rockwork and that you can make out some details around the works like algae etc. Not a fan over the overexposed sand, or the motion blur from the xenia.
I don't know much about the details of the shot but I'll provide the info that I can read in the photo details.
f/5.3 - 2 sec exposure - ISO-100
Probably one of my clearer images I've done of this morph
f/11 - 1.3 sec exposure - ISO-100
This one is also one of the clearest shots I think I've taken of this group.
same settings
Thanks for looking!