~~May 17th 2008 Photography Workshop @ The Shark Reef~~

[SharkReef]

Well...better late than NEVER!!!

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=379079#post379079

Click the above link to see what kind off sale we are having.

 

[KrautBurner]

today !!!!!

I'm planning on going strait to bed as soon as I get home this morning,

if I can get up in time, I'll be spinning by (maybe a little late)




Russ

 

[thestosh]

Looking forward to the event. See you all there.

 

[saltybell]

anyone from the southend going to the meeting?

 

[trido]

I hope everyone enjoyed the meeting. I just couldn't make it for more than one reason.

 

[SharkReef]

Here are some examples of my pictures that I have taken.

Sorry for the WATERMARK everyone. EDITroblem Resolved!!! Thank you for keeping them on since I was the Sponser and it's local and such. Wasn't trying to do anything FISHY.:lol:

I hope you all enjoyed the little information I gave. And for those of you that stayed and got a picture I hope you enjoy them. I figured since the raffle diddn't happen I would just give everyone a picture (not framed) for showing up. Jonathan, and those of you who stayed for the presentation if you didn't get a pic stop by and I will give you one if you would like.

 

[cwby416]

Thank you Eric for taking time to share your expertise to us all. I learned a lot of techniques to use with my simple point and shoot camera. I especially learned how to use some of my great underwater settings that I had never played around with!

Here are some of the shots I took.....can anyone find the ONE picture that I took outside the tank????
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[jnarowe]

Nice pics Randy. I am really glad I went to this meeting as I resolved to change the way I think about photographing my tank. Really, the top-down box is giving me fits and I could have just gotten and underwater housing. Anyway, Using some of what I learned, I did turn out a few decent pics. The biggest thing for me was to take the pics in a larger size so that whenI crop I get a better quality image

You can still see some reflective issues in these but they are the best i took and I am pleased with my personal progress in such a short time.

This is a difficult color to get well...

While typically difficult to shoot in moving water, these came out pretty good:

 

[KrautBurner]

I'm sorry I couldn't make it,

I worked graveyard sat morning, and again this morning.

I couldn't sleep for Sh*t today with the heat, so I didn't get up when I was hoping.




maybe I'll spin by one day with my camera and pick Eric's brain

 

[Eickhorn]

WOW,
Gfreat shots.

I have some health issues to deal with.
Wish i could have made it.

Bob

 

[jnarowe]

After seeing the cameras others brought, I am probably going to get an underwater camera, but in the meantime, I modded the top-down box to deal with the reflections:

You can see I fit it with a lid so that the lense can project through the hole. Moved the mount lower as well. The lid has rails on the underside so it stays put.

I also laminated a thin piece of black acrylic on the back side so virtually no light can get in. This really took care of the reflection issues.

Here is a photo taken with it today:

Another tip I learned at this meeting was to shoot in a much larger size and then crop pics down. I Had been shooting in 600 x and switched up to 3000+ x. Seems to be an improvement!

I will be posting more pics in my tank thread soon:

Me, Myself, and Sherman Too

 

[jnarowe]

Hey Eric,

Remember those kind of gray zoas I got from you?

All they needed was a little light! :lol:

 

[SharkReef]

Hey Eric,

Remember those kind of gray zoas I got from you?

All they needed was a little light! :lol:

Nice!

That is actually what I buy them as too. They say they are blue zoos but most the time when I get them they are grayish. If you check out my website you can see some pictures of them all colored up. BUT, I can't put my website name on threads out of my own forum so just look it up.

Looks like your mods on your box worked very well!!!

 

[krisfal]

Hi guys, this is Devon, Kris' Son. I was there with my Nikon D50, and she had brought her Pentax K100D. I'm going to post up some of the shots we both took during the trip. I had great fun, and it helped me to understand why the aquarium shots always looked so flat and lifeless when I took them.

Clicking on photo will take you to the photos page where you can click "All Sizes" and see larger versions

Kris' Shots - Pentax K100D

 

[krisfal]

Well, since I couldn't fit all photos into one post, here goes part two, with:

Devon's Shots
(Forgive the watermark. This is my living and I've had shots stolen, I now watermark everything.)

 

[tamarindthai]

wow!!everybody with all the very nice shot,,,jonnathan you the pro now and suset getting pretty large ,,keep picture coming everybody.

 

[jnarowe]

Yeah Dang, that sunset started the size of a fingernail. Remember when Steve bought it at the Coral Farmers Market?

 

[tamarindthai]

Yeah Dang, that sunset started the size of a fingernail. Remember when Steve bought it at the Coral Farmers Market?

yes,i remembered,,just the tiny tiny piece..coloring and growing.

 

[jnarowe]

well, those last pictures just make me look stupid.

 

[krisfal]

well, those last pictures just make me look stupid.

Well just like reef tanks, photography also has a large learning curve, at least now we have digital so we can get instant feedback. My first SLR was film with totally manual adjustments. I used to keep a log of all the settings for each shot, so once I developed the picture I could see what worked and what didn't. It is so nice with the DSLR I can instantly see what I got. Just keep practicing and learning.

What you see posted above is the best of our shots. We (my son and I) each took almost 200 shots and only had a dozen or so each we felt were worth posting. We did a little editing (mostly cropping) but one thing we did was add a red filter during the editing phase and it made a big difference to every shot. Eric's comment on the red filter making everything "pop" was one of the big lessons we both took away from the session. I believe a "real" red filter will soon be on the shopping list, although the one we used during editing did a remarkable job.