Meet frank:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/MattTVI/Clown.jpg

Chris,

Thanks for making this forum, pretty cool! btw, if bandwidth gets to be an issue, could you restrict photo sizes? just a thought!

thanks again!

Matt

Image sizes are restricted (as well as auto-sized) when using the upload feature....

Hello Frank looking good!

How did you get frank to sit still that long?!?

nice clown and great pic

Nice work! And thanks to Chris as well for setting up my new favorite forum. ;)

Ya, now when I can get Kayla to show me how she takes some of the pictures she does we will be all set!

That is a great looking clown. Set him as my desk top backround as soon as I say him.

here's frank's boss, sally, hosting in her new home...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/MattTVI/Hosting/Hosting_CloseUp.jpg

Awww, I must say, that's rather adorable!

awsome pic how do all of you guys get such great pics and what camra do yall use i have a kodak easyshare Z760 i think it may be that my camra is not a good one

awsome pic how do all of you guys get such great pics and what camra do yall use i have a kodak easyshare Z760 i think it may be that my camra is not a good one

It is a popular mantra of photogs w/ expensive (relatively) gear to tell those who have not (relatively) that it's "not the camera, but the photographer."

This is true to a point. Aquarium photography is a low light situation at all times (unless remote flash is involved, but in that case you have to spend a lot (relatively) of money, and you will then have (relatively) nice gear) and requires cameras with fast lenses, good high ISO performance, metering, and WB setting. Without these things, a good photographer may have a nicely framed shot, but even the best can only do so much with a camera when it comes to the technical aspects of photography (noise, blurring, exposure, etc...).

As an example, even the best photographers are going to have trouble getting a perfectly exposed, acceptably noisy (low noise), sharp photograph of a tang in an aquirium w/ a camera that is f3.5 wide open and shows unacceptable noise at anything above ISO200 (this is quite common for older P&S cameras). The only difference is that a pro can get more (99/100) out of our cameras than we can, thus the addage is spouted religiously!

That said, I use a Nikon D50 and either a 50mm f1.8 (nice and fast) or a 28-105mm f3.5-5.6 (has a useable micro feature).

I try to avoid shooting at 800-1600 ISO. I will intentionally under-expose to keep my shutterspeed high and my lens stopped down (f8 is nice and sharp). Doing this, I'll bring levels up in post-process and work with the noise as it comes.

hth,

Matt

however if you are shooting in RAW over expose .3 of a stop. this will give you a little better color and more information in your file.