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Rasidel. Still loving the fish shots. Are you doing these at your place or spending way too much time in a local pet store? I wouldn't mind hearing a little about your setup/general techniques.

Thanks!!

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Originally Posted by nqjudo

Rasidel. Still loving the fish shots. Are you doing these at your place or spending way too much time in a local pet store? I wouldn't mind hearing a little about your setup/general techniques.

Thanks!!

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hey - neither - I took these at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. I was there to shoot a Yelp! event (not sure you're familiar with that site but they do reviews of restaurants and other social attractions.. yelp.com) and of course I had to get some fish shots. It was the first time I took my camera there, haven't been there for many years - even though it's one of my fav attractions in Chicago. The only things I kept in mind were focus, general composition, and trying to get as little blur from movement as possible. No flash was needed because the tanks are fairly well-lit. Also, I don't like blinding fish :) I think a big part of it is I'm feeling very comfortable with the 50 1.4 - and I feel like I know how to use it now. I was at 1.8 for all of these. There are times when the DOF becomes a factor - such as for people shots - but it's something you get used to. You might have 1 or 2 people not in focus but overall it's not a dealbreaker. And, I try to ask them to get in the same plane the best I can, for instance if there's one person totally in the back or something. Here's 3 more shots I liked from the Aquarium..

I like how you can't really tell there's any flash. And it's because, most of the light is ambient, with the flash being a fill. I feel that should be the goal of good indoor low-light photography, you should use just enough flash so its barely noticeable, or even not noticeable at all.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/...5d62fa89_o.jpg

The interior of the aquarium is on the darker side so really have to tune the flash to get the good natural exposure.
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I like the way the background plays with the foreground.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/...596793da_o.jpg

if you want to see the rest have a peek in here:
http://www.delobbo.com/gallery2/v/012010_yelp_fantasea/

another shot I liked:

http://www.delobbo.com/gallery2/d/74066-1/IMG_5717.jpg

Rasidel - Interesting, thanks.. The last time that I brought my camera to an aquarium it was actually at the Shedd. What a facility (actually the entire campus is amazing). I took a few shots through the glass but I ended up with a lot of reflections and I picked up a lot of smudges, etc. from the glass. I can't remember if I was as shooting as shallow at 1.8 though. I'll keep that in mind the next time as it should throw the glass sufficiently OOF assuming that the subject is a little back of the glass.

oh nice - I'm glad you know the place I'm talking about!

oh and I should let you know, I did do some "cleanup" on the shots. It's going to be very tough to get a totally clear shot in a fish tank. Here is the original compared to the final:

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Cool! Thanks.

damn, looking at it again, i like the unprocessed colors of the first shot better... :-/ wtf did I do to it lol

Took these yesterday at 200mm....almost 100% crops...

At 8pm with the 18-200mm
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/...31bbf48c_o.jpg

At 1am with the 70-200mm
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/...e0dc0b4d_o.jpg