I figured out how to photograph fish.

by **spongebob4460** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:27 am

Hmm, the coolpix doesn't have any manual settings, but u can try to either use the macro feature of the camera (the little flower icon on the back controls), or put the camera into scene mode, and then close up option. Try these. This will capture the slower moving fish ok... for fast moving fish try the sports assist mode. see how that works for u. But if u find ure pics dark, u will need more light to shine on the tank.

by **Zambize4899** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:31 am

Thanks Sponge, that's 100% more than I knew before! I'll try those things.

Z

by **spraky1413** » Sat May 31, 2008 5:22 am

I played around with the macro settings and the flash and whatnot and got some nice pics. Maybe 5-6 keepers out of, oh, 100. They've finally been approved, yay!

by **littlej2455** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:55 am

i have a hard time trying to get the picture small enough. How do you get it small enough to put it on this website?

by **spraky1413** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:30 pm

A photo editing program. Any basic program will work. Just upload the image from your camera and resize it.

by **Poetic_Irony2267** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:00 am

LMFAO!!! love this thread

Z- i tend to take hundreds of photos in a single sitting and can usually come up with five or so that are really top quality, and that's with my old as dirt kodak dx3500 digital point and shoot cam. i will update you on how it goes with my new cam just added a response to the other thread about the cam i have coming in this week. WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO! NEW TOY!!!!!!!
is like going to the adult store and finding something to play with, the hard part is the final decision once you've made that, it's all fun and games!!!

i sometimes take my fish out for a walk in the living room and let them play with the cats and the ferrets!!!!!!! fish need fun toooooooo LMFAO j/k of course, although it is hilarious when a kamikaze shrimp decides to leap out during feeding time once in a great while and my male cat sees it happen, trying to get the shrimp before the cat does is a pain but now the cat waits at the tank during feeding time every day waiting for a seafood snack to jump out and into his drooling jaws.

Brandon

ps: have over 100 ghost shrimp in my 125 right now, call em my super duty cleaning crew, am sure i have less than that by now as the discus find them super tasty treats.

by **Zambize4899** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:37 am

I had a very small African Dwarf Frog jump right out of my net in the middle of the living room with 4 dogs present. It was a race to see who could get him first, and I was outnumbered. I also new how OH SO fragile the little thing is so I had to be careful in grabbing him -- and the dogs didn't care about that at all. I saved him, but I think it was most stressful on me. Those little things can move. He's in his nice new tank now and he's never leaving it, except on a stretcher.

Z

by **dawgtrain** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:01 am

hmmmm I thought your fish pics were very nice sorry your dissappointed

by **Zambize4899** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:24 am

Thanks Dawg. I did manage to get a few pics, very few. LOL I don't have any pics of my newer fish. In fact, two of the fish in my profile are already deceased. :| I got a new camera and I haven't given up.....here fishy, fishy, fishy....

Zambize

I figured out how to photograph fish.

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I figured out how to photograph fish.

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