Diving The World's 80g Acro Wonderland!

[DivingTheWorld]

I gotta learn how to take some pictures. I swear I have some pieces that look this nice to my eye, but on my phone... meh.

Keep the inspiration coming please. I am lazy on some things.

Thanks. Just keep taking them and they’ll get better. If you look back a couple years in my thread they are not as nice. ;Woot

I took thousands of photos before I started to figure it out. My goal with photos is to not make the corals look pretty, but to make them as accurate as possible to the way they look to my eye. The beauty in the corals takes care of the rest.

 

[Shnicnick]

Looks like you’ve got an amazing tank with some great success! Still running that same 8 bulb t5 right? If so what brand do you have?

 

[coral408]

Just went through major parts of your thread.
What an inspirational tank with colorful reefs!
Thanks for sharing your reefing experiences.
You mentioned the photos were taken with a Nikon camera. Are you still using filters for shots and what are the camera settings, if you don’t mind to share some techniques? thanks.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Looks like you’ve got an amazing tank with some great success! Still running that same 8 bulb t5 right? If so what brand do you have?

Thanks. Yes, I’m running an ATI 8-bulb dimmable with a Reefbrite XHO Blue.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Just went through major parts of your thread.
What an inspirational tank with colorful reefs!
Thanks for sharing your reefing experiences.
You mentioned the photos were taken with a Nikon camera. Are you still using filters for shots and what are the camera settings, if you don’t mind to share some techniques? thanks.

I usually just use auto, no flash. I take pics when all the lights are on but turn off my MP40s. If I’m taking a top down photo outside the water, I also turn off my return so the water is super still. And yes, I use an orange/brown gel to cut the blue. I had to try a bunch before I found one that worked well with my tank/light combo. I don’t know the exact color because I bought a stack of colors off eBay and they’re not labeled.

For in tank photos I use an Avast port hole. For outside the tank, I use my old trusty iPhone 6.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

RRU Event Horizon Milli

 

[ScottB]

RRU Event Horizon Milli

That is a favorite of mine. Sadly, mine went immediately brown in a simple dip in Melafix solution and never recovered. I put 50 other frags through the same with no issue. It was so weird, so instant.

My only guess was that I had it too close to a heater placed in the dip tray.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

BC Secale

 

[DivingTheWorld]

 

[ScottB]

Looking great. Love the diversity of color you have going there.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Looking great. Love the diversity of color you have going there.

Thanks. I keep making changes to increase variation in colors, hence the little frags.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Walt Disney

 

[ScottB]

Walt Disney

Beauty. Who is that furry guy above it?

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Beauty. Who is that furry guy above it?

ASD Rainbow Milli

 

[ScottB]

ASD Rainbow Milli

Thought so. I gotta replace the one I fed to the worms last summer. That and the Event Horizon milli too.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Sapphire Milli

 

[DivingTheWorld]

ASD Rainbow Milli

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Vivid Confetti

 

[DivingTheWorld]

SC Orange Passion

 

[DivingTheWorld]

JF Jolt