andrew.vid

here are some of my tips: point and shoot: well it is pretty easy to do on those types of cameras, as long as their is enough lighting the shutterspeed will be fast enough not to get a blur motion, other than that the flash will help although this might create a large glare on the glass, the best way to remove this is to shoot from an angle. dslr: well if you have a dslr like i do, you should be fairly familiar with all the features and settings. the main thing is if your not going to use a flash the shutter speed must be fast enough so that when the fish move suddenly it will still be sharp. In order to do that you must have a fairly high shutterspeed around 1/100 (from my experience) depends on your lighting but by setting a higher shutter speed this allows less light to be captured so you would have to bump up your ISO and your f/number (aperture size) and remember the higher the ISO the more noise (grains) you will get in the image or you could put it in (S) mode (shutter priority) and it will control the f/number automatically but you still have to control the ISO and shutter speed. if not, then again you can use the flash from an angle. just experiment with shutter speed, ISO and f/number until you get a clear bright image. i often try and get up close to the fish if not i will crop it later on. and if a fish is slowly moving around i will follow them with the camera instead of staying at one place waiting for it to pass by. if it is a good image and clear but a dark one i will keep it it put the exposure up on editing software (iPhoto or Lightroom) i use an dslr (nikon d5100) and when taking pictures of my fish i normally use it in shutter priority mode.