Some of my past fishy friends...

Male Cherry barb
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Female Cherry Barb
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Chocolate Gourami
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Golden Eye Dwarf Cichlid
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Blue Pearl Guppy male
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Red Severum
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Nice fish. You take great photographs as well. One of these days I'm going to purchase a good camera and pick someones brain on how to photograph fish properly.

Thanks it isn't that hard just work at night and take your time...

Great pics!

A few more ....

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Interesting

sounguru, a newbie shows up... with his awesome pics

We then restart the the photo contest...

I smell a ringer.

I'm gonna take pictures of my toilet trout and submit that.

Blame Mikey he was the one who pointed me to this forum ...

sounguru wrote:Blame Mikey he was the one who pointed me to this forum ...

Soooo, if I point you to another forum, will you go away?

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Bye!

Spyral wrote:

sounguru wrote:Blame Mikey he was the one who pointed me to this forum ...

Soooo, if I point you to another forum, will you go away?

Bye!

Nope just add it to the book mark list...

Spyral wrote:I'm gonna take pictures of my toilet trout and submit that.

Toilet trout? You mean a bichir? Or do you mean something like this:
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Hahaha, funny thread... started all serious, turned into poop and telling people to go away.... then at the top there's like really good photos... lol this forum is nuts.

Btw, that lobster is beast. I think it could kick my butt.

Those are fantastic pics! And no, I'm not talking about Mr Hankey.

fish_n_vw wrote:Btw, that lobster is beast. I think it could kick my butt.

Red Swamp Cray got him out of an order of feeder golds was only about 1/2" long grew to be about 5" before he went on a walkabout...

The Red Severum would get my vote, great job. What setup are you useing for such great pic's.

Thanks Rick

EOS 40D, 50mm Macro, Carbon Fiber Tripod, Off camera Flash Overhead, 2 Diffused side lights, A book of foreign curse words, and large quantities of Rum (for me not the fish).

The 4 Biggest mistakes people make...

#1 They do not turn off the filter at least an hour before shooting.
#2 They do not shoot in the darkest conditions possible. (late at night for me).
#3 They try to handhold the camera.
#4 Do not clean the glass before shooting.

Once those things are done the rest is all fine tuning and getting your mad skills going.

I read somewere to use a small tank to limit the movment of the fish. I have a Nikon D-300 I need to fine a good macro for. i guess I'll start on ebay.

Rick wrote:I read somewere to use a small tank to limit the movment of the fish. I have a Nikon D-300 I need to fine a good macro for. i guess I'll start on ebay.

That is one method but I don't think you get as natural a shot. I want to capture my critters doing what they do naturally.

Another factor is the moving of the fish. If you do that you then have to wait for the fish to settle and color back up. Some fish go quite bland from the stress and can take a while to get back their true colors.

Great picture tips, I didn't know about the filter! Thanks!

Nice. But to small for me.

But very nice.