Lani's Random Reef Photography

Lalani · Apr 11, 2014

Thanks, guys! And yeah, Lyndya, Mpix is great!

Lalani · Apr 30, 2014

A few from this past weekend.

IMG_9121 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9195 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9196 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9205 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9212 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9218 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9229 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9232 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_9272 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

Thanks for looking

zibba · Apr 30, 2014

Excellent!

ingtar_shinowa · Apr 30, 2014

Whats the blue surrounding the monti? Amazing pics.

Lalani · Apr 30, 2014

zibba said:
Excellent!

Thank you!

ingtar_shinowa said:
Whats the blue surrounding the monti? Amazing pics.

Blue clove polyps

ingtar_shinowa · Apr 30, 2014

That was my first thought, but it also might have been a sponge. Now i see them clearly in your blenny picture.

skinz78 · Apr 30, 2014

Very nice!

Lalani · Aug 23, 2014

Went by a LFS, called Coral Fever, in Raceland, La. yesterday and took a few pics while I was there (of course). The corals are all topdowns using melev's top-down box.
Canon T2i w/ Canon 100mm.

IMG_1778 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1837 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1922 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1868 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1855 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1909 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1831 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1843 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1838 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1836 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1841 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_1850 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

Thanks for looking!

melev · Aug 23, 2014

Lovely pictures, Kim! You do such nice work.

Lalani · Aug 24, 2014

Thanks, Marc

Lalani · Sep 11, 2014

Just a few recent shots from a LFS, Aquatic Specialties:

IMG_2709 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_2710 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_2722 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_2784 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_2782 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_2797 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

Thanks for looking!

dieselkeeper · Sep 26, 2014

Those are some great shots. Did you crop those top down shots? I don't understand how you could use a macro lens from so far away from the corals. Unless it is a shallow tank.

skinz78 · Sep 26, 2014

Very nice shots, we need you to go to the LFS more often!

Lalani · Sep 26, 2014

Thanks! None of the top-downs are cropped, as far as I can recall. These pics were taken of many different sized tanks. The closest macro shots were taken from nano tanks, so the working distance from the lens was short.

Lalani · Sep 26, 2014

skinz78 said:
Very nice shots, we need you to go to the LFS more often!

Haha, I'll try to make more trips to the LFS with my camera

homegrowncoral88 · Sep 29, 2014

Amazing shots. Keep it up!

Lalani · Sep 29, 2014

Thanks! Here are a couple recent fish shots. The bluestripe is the newest addition to my tank.

IMG_2958_2 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

IMG_3388 by Ugiesnugums, on Flickr

exonn · Sep 29, 2014

Lalani, amazing shots. Can you tell me more about your post processing. Are you using Lightroom or some other software? Am asking because i have problems converting RAW taken under the royal blue leds to jpeg. I know some people are using other RAW converters. What lens do you use? 100 mm or 180 mm ? Looking forward for more pics.

skinz78 · Sep 29, 2014

Beautiful fish!

Lalani · Sep 29, 2014

exonn said:
Lalani, amazing shots. Can you tell me more about your post processing. Are you using Lightroom or some other software? Am asking because i have problems converting RAW taken under the royal blue leds to jpeg. I know some people are using other RAW converters. What lens do you use? 100 mm or 180 mm ? Looking forward for more pics.

Thank you! I use Photoshop CS6 for my post processing, and I don't actually do much pp work at all. But that is because my tank is T5-lit and when I take pics of other people's LED-lit tanks, I usually ask them to adjust them to a whiter light. The majority of digital cameras have a very hard time taking pics of blue LED-lit tanks. Most of the time, the blue just goes out of whack and you lose all/most detail in those areas so even extreme post processing can't recover/fix those problems, unfortunately.
I use several different lenses, but the majority of the tank shots are taken with the Canon 100mm f2.8 (non-IS).