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Message: <blockquote data-quote="o2manyfish" data-source="post: 11414737" data-attributes="member: 23041">I love macro photography of our aquariums. I think a great macro shot of just about anything is beautiful. I found that trying to 'capture' a 400g tank and showing everything in it was impossible.  So I gave up on all but the occassional FTS and focused on getting just some good photos. Sometimes the cell phone will rip one right off, and other times I will spend hours with a tri-pod, remote, dslr, $$$ Macro lens and shoot 300 photos just to get 1. [ATTACH=full]3170186[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170188[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170189[/ATTACH]One of the things I learned early on, with the help of Greg Rothschild, was on my 400g tank which was 3/4" Acrylic. Is that if you didn't shoot straight thru the acrylic, it would be impossible to get the 'perfect' shot because the light moving thru the acrylic at an angle was bending to some degree. [ATTACH=full]3170193[/ATTACH]So that limited my photo angles from either straight on. Or a god awful scary looking contraption of a large tripod, with a tripod arm - one end of which hangs a couple of water jugs full of water to counterbalance the 5 figure camera setup dangling in the middle of the tank for top down shots. Yes I did replace a DSLR when the strap holding a water jug broke and the camera dropped into the tank. Was I more upset about buying another Canon or that when 6lbs of camera equipment fell in the tank it broke an 8" arm of Oregon Tort off the colony -- Ponder that for a moment <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Last year we moved up to a 750g - Now the photos became even more impossible.... a) The Tank is 10' long - It sits in a room only 10' across. Try to shoot a FTS of a 10' tank when you can only get as far away as 6' in front of it. b) The tank is 48" from front to back - That's a crazy depth of field to bring into focus when shooting from only a few feet away c) The Tank is made from 1.5" Acrylic --- what's it going to be like shooting macro thru that. Since we started out with mostly frags, pulling out the macro lens and big camera hasn't been inviting yet in the big tank. So it's been all cell phone photos. [ATTACH=full]3170204[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170208[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170210[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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