Sea Nettle Jelly Fish

[Every Miles A Memory]

So hood against the glass...what else? Where is your light source? The Sea Nettle seem to be just from the tank, but did you use any strobe on the eel or sea dragon? It's been years since I've been to the aquarium, but nothing I took came out anywhere near that. I'll have to try that next time.

Put the hood against the glass and cup your hand around any openings in the hood so no light can come in. That's the key to getting the good shot. Plus you need to have a really fast lens. These were all taken with a f/2.8 lens with the f-stop opened up to the highest setting at f/2.8

The lens is image stabilized, and I would try and time it to when the fish would stop moving because of the flow of the water. I also had my ISO bumped way up to around 1600.

How in the heck!? Those are awesome shots! How in the world did you do that through the glass? I dive at an aquarium and have tryed a few times to take pictures there, but there is no way I can get them to come out that good of quality. What settings/camera did you use? Was the tank outdoors and hence well lit? Was the glass really that incredibly clear??

Clark

Thanks Clark! I would either stand right up against the glass which gets rid of the nasty hand prints or scrtaches, there were lots of them, or stand way back whic allows you to focus right through it too.

I found that I couldnt do anything on the tanks that the lexan was curved. It distorts the image too much. All of these were shot through flat glass/lexan, with natural light. The high ISO helped with that. All of these tanks were inside too, so no bright light to draw from.

Thanks again for the compliments, I guess I didnt realize these were that good...LOL

I think that Pat is magical! All of his pictures look like he was able to stop time and get the photo to turn out however he wants. His screen name should be Pat Bonish the Magnificent!

Steve you crack me up. You guys have to remember, I live with a camera in my hand. I dont have a job and I have the time to sit around goofing off till I get the shot. Not really something I should be bragging about, but its the truth:bike_rider:

 

[pismo62]

Great shots!!!! :sombrero: