In your face! (A photographic experiment) **Now with sex!

[Aquaman]

lirion........... have you ever done any digital shoots of public aquariums? That Stuff interests me........ whenever I visit Monterey or any other public aquarium. That flash won't work in the aqariums becuase of the glass though.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
lirion........... have you ever done any digital shoots of public aquariums? That Stuff interests me........ whenever I visit Monterey or any other public aquarium. That flash won't work in the aqariums becuase of the glass though.

Cheers,
Aquaman

Taking pictures in a less-than-optimally-lighted public aquarium sounds like a good challenge for lirion. 🙂

Even in personal aquariums, photography isn't easy. I've seen some fancy setups with remote flashes in strategic places above and around the aquarium, but that's beyond what I can do.

IMHO, one of the biggest challenges you might encounter would be the reflections of objects outside the glass (but would a polarizing filter take care of that? I'm not smart enough to know 😱). The only way I got around that when taking pics of my aquarium was either to take pictures from above using hanging lights over an open aquarium in a dimly lit room, or take pictures from the front late at night with all lights except those on the aquarium shut off.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I chose the twin light rather than the ring light because it gives me much more flexablility in producing any kind of lighting efects I want. I can move the heads around the mount at any angle I want, and point them in any direction. But most importantly a ringlight causes very unnatural reflections on shiny surfaces like the elytra of a beetle or a spider's shiny eye. It literally looks like on a cartoon when a psycho person has those rings in their eyes. I'll try to find an example. The twin light can cause a double catchlight in a subject's eye, which is undesirable, but I have some tricks to minimize that.

I haven't done an aquarium shoot yet. I want to go to the Columbus Zoo sometime soon and I think they have an aquarium there. The trick is to get the flash off at an angle from the camera. I actully have some wireless flash equipment that I have yet to give a real run through that would be perfect for this. I have a transmitter that goes on the hot shoe of the camera and communicates with my flashes anywhere in the room. Also if you have a hood on your lens you can put that directly onto the glass and then there's no way you can possibly get any glare from it. Polorizers will help, but if there's glare from the glass in your shot then you'll still see it with a polorizer, it just won't be as bad.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: lirion

Here's the equipment I used to make all of these particular shots. If you need to know anything about a particular shot or subject, ask away.

Let me know what you think.

I think I want one of those cameras... how much was it?

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: lirion

Here's the equipment I used to make all of these particular shots. If you need to know anything about a particular shot or subject, ask away.

Let me know what you think.

I think I want one of those cameras... how much was it?

It's actually been replaced by a cheaper model. When I got the D60 it cost about $2200. Now the 10D runs about $1500. You can find used D60's for about a grand now.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: lirion
I almost forgot this one. This springtail is gigantic- for a springtail, which is still tiny. It might be 1.5 millimeters long, maybe. It was sitting on my dirty fingertip, and my filthy thumbail is in the shot too. I wouldn't say this has any asthetic value at all, but it is neat because you can see its furcula. That's that spike thing underneath it pointing up towards its face. That's what it uses to jump.

Human flesh is pretty nasty looking, ain't it? 🙂

 

[Aquaman]

You ever do any underwater photography?

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[TheHeartless]

WOW!!!!:Q

NICE pics!

 

[MustangSVT]

great pictures, i saved them all 🙂

i never thought u can get so close to insects without them moving away .

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
great pictures, i saved them all 🙂

i never thought u can get so close to insects without them moving away .

He may not be quite as close as you think. With some of his lenses, I think he can get 8 to 12 inches away and still have the shots appear to be very close, but even that is still awfully close for someone (like me) who's not comfortable around those little spiders (especially the jumping ones). 😱

 

[Azraele]

Wow. You should work for national Geographic.