Ya gotta love this beautiful fish. I never have a problem asking her to pose. Most of the shots were taken from several feet away with a 105 mm macro lens. I set my lights step back and wait till she's in cruising distance from the "sweet spot" for my lights. Then all I do is raise my hand and she will freeze and flair her fins. All of these photos were shot using the lowest possible ISO on the Nikon D300 (LO-1)which is the equivalent of ISO 100. I increased the output capacity of the flash units to 200% and shot using 1/250th of a second @ F29. If you are up on your camera basics....that's a lot of light needed to get that high aperture. It gives me a lot of detail and color.
This first shot was my normal setting with flash, ISO and aperture (200, 1/125 @f22)
These are the much more "high end" photos. You can see a detail difference...or at least I can.
The fish really did all the work. I've been asked several times "what happened to her fins." Nothing. She just has these beautiful trailers at the end of all of her fins.
The end
This first shot was my normal setting with flash, ISO and aperture (200, 1/125 @f22)
These are the much more "high end" photos. You can see a detail difference...or at least I can.
The fish really did all the work. I've been asked several times "what happened to her fins." Nothing. She just has these beautiful trailers at the end of all of her fins.
The end
gorgeous
, lovely little fish .