Simonauv Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I was at work today looking after the fishtanks (some very bad person starting with a 'B' has broken into my lab AGAIN and stolen a convict cichlid!!!) and decided to play around with my Olympus C740UZ point-and-shoot camera to try and get a more pleasing result when photographing my fish (must be the Gods at work though cos my dSLR came back today, finally, after 3 months away so I may not need to worry about it now lol). The subject is my Halfmoon Grouper (Epinephelus rivulatus). What I did was get two mirrors and sit one one the top of the tank so it overhung the edge quite a bit and then got another mirror and placed it infront of the built-in flash and angled it up at 45 degrees. It bounced off the top mirror and gave me a more even top lighting. The pics still have heaps of noise but I think they look a lot better than pointing the flash straight at the fish. I just used a normal program mode because the manual modes and the strength of the built-in flash is not strong enough or flexible enough to change much. and I'm sure if I was to set up something more substantial I could get the shots much better. Compare this to this pic taken with the P&S with direct flash (shrimp is the Norfolk Island Shrimp (Paratya norfolcensis)- possibly the first time it's ever been photographed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.d.m Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 look great to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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