I took some photos of a few fish that normally remain hidden among the others in a 300 gallon tank. Here's F0 A. Robertsoni from Rio Jutiapa in Honduras. The fish is also known as Red Cheek Robertsoni:
A shot of A. Nourisati...the Dilver Dollar makes the size of the fish deceiving. The SD is closer to the camera and about five inches in diameter (height). the Nourisati is about 8"
Some close ups of the beautiful fins of P. Fredrichsthali "La Cieba". Here's one with the background in tact.
This one I knocked out the BG in photoshop to make the fins "pop"
And finally...here's a High Dynamic Range photo of a single fish tank in the fish room. It currently houses some small grow outs. You can see them if you zoom in...but not that obvious overall. I tried it with this tank only becasue you can't see the small fish from this distance in all of the exposures. Bigger fish have more motion and would look odd. I'm going to try and set up a shot of a bigger fish early one morning when they are still sleeping and more or less immobile.
This is actually ten exposures starting at 30 seconds (lens open) and ending at 1/30th of a second. Each exposure illuminates a little more or a little less of the detail giving detail in both shadow and highlights. The only light I used was the single strip light over the tank and the spill over light from a tank behind this one. The shots are then combined using special software. Pretty cool stuff.
A shot of A. Nourisati...the Dilver Dollar makes the size of the fish deceiving. The SD is closer to the camera and about five inches in diameter (height). the Nourisati is about 8"
Some close ups of the beautiful fins of P. Fredrichsthali "La Cieba". Here's one with the background in tact.
This one I knocked out the BG in photoshop to make the fins "pop"
And finally...here's a High Dynamic Range photo of a single fish tank in the fish room. It currently houses some small grow outs. You can see them if you zoom in...but not that obvious overall. I tried it with this tank only becasue you can't see the small fish from this distance in all of the exposures. Bigger fish have more motion and would look odd. I'm going to try and set up a shot of a bigger fish early one morning when they are still sleeping and more or less immobile.
This is actually ten exposures starting at 30 seconds (lens open) and ending at 1/30th of a second. Each exposure illuminates a little more or a little less of the detail giving detail in both shadow and highlights. The only light I used was the single strip light over the tank and the spill over light from a tank behind this one. The shots are then combined using special software. Pretty cool stuff.
