jflysmooth Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Well guys and gals, I finally got some decent pictures out of my camera. I ended up having to put some electrical atpe across part of my flash to get things working, but now I can do it! Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted May 16, 2003 Author Share Posted May 16, 2003 I actually rearranged after I took this pic, but its still cool. Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted May 16, 2003 Author Share Posted May 16, 2003 And this one is for Dave since he wanted a full tank shot. Link to comment
Reefer33 Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 How did you make that arch? That should grow into an awesome looking tank! Keep up on the good work Link to comment
wetworx101 Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 BTW, you said you had to tape your flash to get the pictures right? Not that I find any problems with that or your pictures, they are GREAAAT, but many cameras have a way to adjust this with a setting called ISO. The higher the ISO, the lower the flash, and the cool part is that then the camera will compensate accordingly for the varied flash (things compensated would be exposure and white balance). Maybe your camera doesnt have this feature, but I just wanted to say it to save everybody else from having to tape their flash!! Link to comment
deacon hemp Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 thanks wetworks for the flash tip,i didn't know what the iso flash setting was for now i have to go do some test pics! Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted May 16, 2003 Author Share Posted May 16, 2003 Yeah, I looked in my menu for the option you were talking about and I can't get anything like that. I have a Kodak DC290 2.1 megapixel with a 3x optical zoom. It takes pretty good pictures, but when it comes to my reef it seems I have to outsmart it. In the first picture I think you can see the flash and how I have most of it taped except for the top portion. I played around with how much flash to cover in order to get the right pictures. It seems as though I can't get it to focus correctly unless the flash is on (even if I put it on a table so it doesnt wobble at all). The manual focus is in the menu and only lets me pick a distance (1.5 feet at the closest) and its rather frustrating. I spend a few seconds before each picture trying to zoom and focus on the right spot before taking the picture otherwise it doesn't even come close. With some more practice and tweaking things should be working even better, but oh how I wish I could manually focus like I can with a 35 mm. It's rather frustrating as its VERy point and click for everything else, just not my reef! Needless to say, if I had had a reef when I bought this camera, I would have gotten a different one, but its still a good camera even though it's getting pretty dated. Link to comment
Reefer33 Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 What did you do to make those cool looking arches? Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted May 18, 2003 Author Share Posted May 18, 2003 I took some rocks, dabbed some super glue, and then set the arch down leaning into the main chunk of rock. Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted May 19, 2003 Author Share Posted May 19, 2003 New pics with a few new things right before bedtime... Link to comment
wetworx101 Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 awesome colors man. The model camera you have prolly doesnt have that control, often the more advanced ones do. None the less, I gotta say, you are doing a fine job 'fooling' the camera cuz your shots look really cool. I have a question: In the last pic you have posted right before this, about three inches to the left from the center, looks like a green turd with little white nodes all over it, like a marine pinecone or something, what is that??? I have one like that but it is brown with whiote nodes on it. It doesnt grow, move, anything, but it sure looks like it is a creature. I never knew what it was. Just wondering. Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted May 19, 2003 Author Share Posted May 19, 2003 Its an acro frag.. uhm.. not sure what species. "green slimer" whatever that means. And thanks! Taking actinic shots is even harder to do becuase I have to do it with no flash and hold the camera very very steady... which can be hard to do while pushing the button. Link to comment
jflysmooth Posted June 3, 2003 Author Share Posted June 3, 2003 Okay.. I got a new clam and a bunch of new rock, so here's some new pictures The full tank. The new clam Link to comment
palaegic Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Nice shots and great looking tank. Really nice shots with the actinics on. Link to comment
donkeykong Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 great looking clam. Nice rock formations also Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Very nice as always Jeff! I see you have GSP growing on the back wall like me I really like those zoanthids on the top left rock! Link to comment
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