*d2mini's 200g Reeftastic Reef - Part Deux!*
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Thanks! I've had that frogspawn for many years and it has been fragged so many times.
Thank you.Simply stunning Denis!! You should be proud
Thanks! Video isn't really my thing, just muddling my way through iMovie. If u have a suggestion for transitions let me know. I need some way to go from one shaky handheld shot to the other.
Thanks!
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Have you ever done a write-up on your aquarium photography work flow. Equipment, setup and post? Your shots are some of the best in the industry, and would be very interested in seeing it if you wrote something up.
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Your video is great and the tank is looking awesome.
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haha, thanks.
I haven't done anything like that, but that's something to chew on. It's not always so black and white (no pun intended) but I suppose it would give people a solid platform to start from.
There has also been some talk on MARSH about doing a live demo some time.
Thanks!Your video is great and the tank is looking awesome.
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haha, thanks.
I haven't done anything like that, but that's something to chew on. It's not always so black and white (no pun intended) but I suppose it would give people a solid platform to start from.
There has also been some talk on MARSH about doing a live demo some time.
Thanks!
I've never been to a MARSH event, but I would show up for the talk.
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Simply amazing!
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Amazing!!!!!
So fish room......incredible
Tank..................amazing
Equipment fish & coral....... Beautiful
......and then you went and whipped the camera out.......you had me at your first pic!!!!
While your entire thread is incredible I have a soft spot for photography and your pics are razor sharp, perfect contrast, amazing depth of field, spot on white balance, I'm just at a loss for words.
I must know what your are shooting with and perhaps a few tips.
Remote shutter release timer hand held f stops shutter speeds ISO white balance tripod mounted pumps on or off light kelvin setting omg the list of questions goes on. Thanks in advance.
So fish room......incredible
Tank..................amazing
Equipment fish & coral....... Beautiful
......and then you went and whipped the camera out.......you had me at your first pic!!!!
While your entire thread is incredible I have a soft spot for photography and your pics are razor sharp, perfect contrast, amazing depth of field, spot on white balance, I'm just at a loss for words.
I must know what your are shooting with and perhaps a few tips.
Remote shutter release timer hand held f stops shutter speeds ISO white balance tripod mounted pumps on or off light kelvin setting omg the list of questions goes on. Thanks in advance.
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Thanks!
Camera info is in my sig.
Settings vary, but basically a shutter speed high enough to avoid motion blur, an ISO high enough to get that shutter speed, hand held, and most importantly I shoot RAW and process through Adobe Lightroom.
I run Radiums so the color is what I like to describe as a crisp white with a touch of blue. WB is corrected in Lightroom.
Franky - Figured I would find you on this thread. d2mini's tank and pictures are amazing. Your pictures are great but if you can pick up some of d2mini's tricks of the trade, I can only imagine what your pics will look like. You'll be even more in demand from the reefers in CT.
d2mini - Hope you will be able to help our boy Franky out. FANTASTIC TANK
d2mini - Hope you will be able to help our boy Franky out. FANTASTIC TANK
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I think he has already improved my photos just by directing me towards shooting in raw and using lightroom. Stay tuned in my thread Frankys macro shots in reef central for better pics (hopefully)
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Awesome Dennis!
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I always tell people, if you already have the basics of photography down, shooting in RAW and learning how to process your own photos will make the biggest difference.
You can be shooting with the best DSLR and lenses available, but if you shoot in Auto mode and let the camera churn out jpgs, you might as well be using a point and shoot camera.
Let's think back a few years to film cameras.
You basically had the same options.
Option A was shoot in full manual mode, or auto if you had a fancy camera, you hit the shutter and a basic image was transferred to your film in the form of a negative, and then drop your negatives off at Walgreens to be developed.
When you chose Option A, you were letting a machine apply automatic corrections to exposure, white balance, etc and what it spit out was what you got. Feeling lucky?
Option B was develop those negatives yourself in a darkroom. This took extra equipment, time, and you had to learn and practice, but eventually the results were far superior and completely up to you!
With Option B, you were in full control in the dark room. Exposure, WB, selective dodging/burning, various papers and developers, your own secret little tricks, this was where some real artistry came in.
You think Ansel Adams photos looked like that straight out of the camera? That boy could spend a whole day in the darkroom developing a single image.
With the Digital Camera, it's the same thing, only the developing happens INSIDE the camera. Just like a miniature Walgreens!
You are letting someone else choose all these settings for you.
Not only that, but if it spits something out that you are not quite happy with and want to play around with it on your computer afterwards, you have much less pixel information making it much harder to get clean results.
If you shoot in RAW, that's like starting with the negative. It will look a little flatter/duller than you may wish, but the amount of pixel information is massive in comparison to your jpg.
So now when you import it in to software like Lightroom, you can do ANYTHING you want to it. Is it all blue? You can fix that. Does it need more contrast? Done. Want to make multiple versions without taking up extra hard disk space? No problem, make as many as you like.
This is where YOU choose how the photo is developed so it reflects YOUR vision.
Not only all that, but Lightroom is a fantastic organizational tool and it lets your organize all your photos any way you see fit.
So if you want to get the most out of your photos, learn how to develop them and don't leave it up to some engineer sitting in a cube at Nikon or Canon corporate offices.
FWIW, I use Lightroom and finish in Photoshop. Adobe has the combo available for $10/month. Not too bad.
But there are plenty of free raw developers out there too, I just don't have personal experience with any of them.
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Lol. Thanks for taking the time to write that up. I have Lightroom but haven't used it I also have photoshop but also haven't used it. I have a great Nikon dslr along with a Nikon macro lens so on the equipment end I'm covered it all comes down to technique which I haven't quite polished yet. I plan on experimenting for sure though
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Not to hijack your thread. Just wanted to say thanks for the tips and show you a sample of a test pic using LR.
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Nice! :high5:
Yep, love it.
Glad to hear things are still going well with the skimmer. Sorry if I'm cluttering your thread with questions...but are you using the mag 12 pump on yours? My biggest issue with needle wheel skimmers are the noise and the fact you need a specific pump. How is the noise on yours? My other concern is heat due to the higher wattage pumps these skimmers appear to require, do you know how many watts yours is pulling?
