Plz Help, Tank Flash!

[saltcritter]

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Please help with my tank flash problem, any ideas?

 

[danmhippo]

Disable your flash, rely only on the tank lighting. If you find the pic a bit too dark, garf it up with photo editing programs.

 

[reefland]

Take picture at a slight angle, if you are more than 20 degrees off perpendicular you should not see the flash as it will bounce off in the other direction. (or at least it should be reduced).

 

[Nelliereefster]

Disable your flash, rely only on the tank lighting. If you find the pic a bit too dark, garf it up with photo editing programs.

That's hysterical. GARF, whata bunch of phonies. Perfect humor, simply splendid, well done

 

[Henry1]

If you really must use flash, eg to capture things under ledges, stand furthur back then use the optical zoom to bring subject closer.
Depending on the power of the flash, you may still need to garf it up a bit.

cheers

 

[reefland]

That's hysterical. GARF, whata bunch of phonies. Perfect humor, simply splendid, well done

It is actually an established term in the hobby.

 

[saltcritter]

:lol:

There is one for people who Buy a Ikler Home in the Marin County area, CA.

The builders call it Being Ikled.

What Junk, SOLD on a pipe dream and I hear the man Mr. Ikler was a BIG Pipehead, if you know what I mean.


I will try the Flash off andset my lighting up in the camera settings. I might have to set the Cloudy setting to Very Sunny as well.

I have tryed a couple of things, but then a person comes back with, I can not see what color you are talking about.

I figured out the size thing, with the help of a few good people here, so I guess I will take the advice and drop the Flash completly and work from there.

Thanks SO! much. I am trying for a better picture. I do NOT have plans to take a photo study class, but I will work on what you all tank photo experts already know.
:wink:


"With an Open mind and a caring heart, we can All Fathom our Reality"
tm/mt-myself

 

[xKEIGOx]

use a ASA800 film, disable flash. speed set to 60 and adjust the..err.. what you call that already? ISO?
if 60 speed also can't do us a tripod. but if you want to use flash. try to put ya flash at 45degrees side of ya tank. never put infront.

 

[tanzy]

If you are capturing stuff that don't move too much, like SPS, use a tripod, F2.8 with ISO100, Shutter speed depending on lighting, maybe 1/15 or slower. Captures the colour as seen by your eyes(at least close enough) in the tank instead of the weird washout colour of the flashgun. You can skip the tripod if you got titanium arms. :lol:
I don't like using the flash. If you have to take a shot of a fish, then hypnotise it, make sure it doesn't move, position it properly and then take a shot. If you are lacking in the hypnotism department then use a faster film. :wink:

 

[npaden]

One other trick I use is to hold the lens of the camera right up against the glass. That way there is no glass for the flash to reflect off of. Usually this is only good for close up shots though.

Another item that I've noticed is people saying that pic's taken with a flash don't show the "true" colors of their livestock. Actually this is generally not the case as the flash will overpower the blue lighting some people use in there tanks and you will see the "true" color in the picture that was taken with the flash. If you disable the flash and take a picture of the same thing, you will see the color the way you see it under your blue lighting. This is especially true if you are trying to take pictures under actinic lighting.

FWIW, Nathan