Photos of Your Aquariums and Fish

Hi Mel,

Sure, feel free to email them to me! :-) I don't think people are supposed
to post images to non-binary newsgroups anyway, so just as well that you
didn't figure out how to do it! ;-) Email me as many as you want, as I've
got a 1mb broadband connection with blueyonder, so email sizes aren't a
problem. I'll try and take some decent images and upload them to my
webspace tonight.

Thanks,

Stephen



"Mel" <*@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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| I've got loads of pics of mine but can't work out how to post them here!
lol
| Not very technically minded I'm afraid! Will send them to your email if
you
| like?
| Mel.
|
| "ste mc ©" <ste DeleteThis @sm9.co.uk> wrote in message
| news:bu4a8d$cnvbh$1@ID-99150.news.uni-berlin.de...
| > Hi there,
| >
| > I was just curious to know if any of you have photos of your aquariums
and
| > fish to share? I've got a digital camera and was going to take a few
| shots
| > of mine then upload them to my web space. The problem is that the fish
| > never stop moving, so all my photos have been blurred! And I don't want
| to
| > use the flash in case it scares the fish, and it would just bounce off
the
| > glass anyway. I'll try using a higher ISO setting and see what I can
come
| > up with.
| >
| > In the meantime, I'll look forward to seeing what any of you have got!
:-)
| >
| > Take care,
| >
| > Stephen
| >
| >
|
|
 >> Stay informed about: Photos of Your Aquariums and Fish 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:53:49 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste.TakeThisOut@sm9.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I was just curious to know if any of you have photos of your aquariums and
>fish to share? I've got a digital camera and was going to take a few shots
>of mine then upload them to my web space. The problem is that the fish
>never stop moving, so all my photos have been blurred! And I don't want to
>use the flash in case it scares the fish, and it would just bounce off the
>glass anyway. I'll try using a higher ISO setting and see what I can come
>up with.
>
>In the meantime, I'll look forward to seeing what any of you have got! :-)
>
>Take care,
>
>Stephen
>
Take lots of pictures and delete the bad ones. I have never seen any
effect of flash on the fish, they seem to ignore it. Shoot at an
angle so the flash reflection does not come straight back to the
camera. Expect a LOT of bad pictures, sometimes good ones happen.

A google search for aquarium photography will give you many results.

There is a group, alt.binaries.aquaria, for pictures of this sort, it
is not carried by all news servers though.


--

- Charles
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"Charles" <ckraft.RemoveThis@SPAMTRAPwest.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:53:49 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste.RemoveThis@sm9.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I was just curious to know if any of you have photos of your aquariums
and
> >fish to share? I've got a digital camera and was going to take a few
shots
> >of mine then upload them to my web space. The problem is that the fish
> >never stop moving, so all my photos have been blurred! And I don't want
to
> >use the flash in case it scares the fish, and it would just bounce off
the
> >glass anyway. I'll try using a higher ISO setting and see what I can
come
> >up with.
> >
> >In the meantime, I'll look forward to seeing what any of you have got!
:-)
> >
> >Take care,
> >
> >Stephen
> >
> Take lots of pictures and delete the bad ones. I have never seen any
> effect of flash on the fish, they seem to ignore it. Shoot at an
> angle so the flash reflection does not come straight back to the
> camera. Expect a LOT of bad pictures, sometimes good ones happen.
>
> A google search for aquarium photography will give you many results.
>
> There is a group, alt.binaries.aquaria, for pictures of this sort, it
> is not carried by all news servers though.
>
> - Charles


Hi Charles,

I took about 100 photos last night, and it was tough, as you say! I got
about 20 shots that were in focus, and of those, only about 10 shots were
decent, ie, never had a fishes head or tail chopped off or something!
That's a bad ratio of good to bad images! :-)

I did use the flash in the end, and my luck did improve. Thankfully, and as
you say, my fish didn't seem affected by it, so that's a relief. If it was
causing them to panic or swim frantically, I would have stopped, but they
seemed normal. Some fish were even swimming up towards to camera to
investigate! :-)

The main problem is that the fish never stop moving, so it makes it
difficult to focus on them. I've got quite a good digital camera, a Canon
PowerShot G5, but it's not in the same league as a digital SLR. My
autofocus is way too slow to catch a fish, and the manual focus is quite hit
and miss because I can only look on an LCD to see if it's in focus, and it's
very small - so what looks in focus on the small screen, might be out of
focus on the computer screen. :-( I'd like to buy a digital SLR with proper
lenses later this year, but that's for another newsgroup... :-) Any
photography buffs here? :-)

Without the flash, I was shooting using a high ISO to get a decent shutter
speed and reduce blurry images, but the photos were very noisy, so best
using flash and ISO 50.

I take my photos as Canon RAW files, so I haven't yet converted them to
JPEG's and uploaded them to my webspace - it was quite late last night when
I was doing this! But I'll upload them this evening and post the links
here. I hope to get better images in future, so practice will hopefully
make perfect!

Thanks,

Stephen
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I find that taking photos is easiest right after they have been fed and are
chewing their pellets up. They don't tend to move for a good 5 mins then!
Mel.

"ste mc ©" <ste RemoveThis @sm9.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Charles" <ckraft RemoveThis @SPAMTRAPwest.net> wrote in message
> news:uoeb00h66dra88u1k5e61dov5gd69sov6l@4ax.com...
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:53:49 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste RemoveThis @sm9.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi there,
> > >
> > >I was just curious to know if any of you have photos of your aquariums
> and
> > >fish to share? I've got a digital camera and was going to take a few
> shots
> > >of mine then upload them to my web space. The problem is that the fish
> > >never stop moving, so all my photos have been blurred! And I don't
want
> to
> > >use the flash in case it scares the fish, and it would just bounce off
> the
> > >glass anyway. I'll try using a higher ISO setting and see what I can
> come
> > >up with.
> > >
> > >In the meantime, I'll look forward to seeing what any of you have got!
> :-)
> > >
> > >Take care,
> > >
> > >Stephen
> > >
> > Take lots of pictures and delete the bad ones. I have never seen any
> > effect of flash on the fish, they seem to ignore it. Shoot at an
> > angle so the flash reflection does not come straight back to the
> > camera. Expect a LOT of bad pictures, sometimes good ones happen.
> >
> > A google search for aquarium photography will give you many results.
> >
> > There is a group, alt.binaries.aquaria, for pictures of this sort, it
> > is not carried by all news servers though.
> >
> > - Charles
>
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> I took about 100 photos last night, and it was tough, as you say! I got
> about 20 shots that were in focus, and of those, only about 10 shots were
> decent, ie, never had a fishes head or tail chopped off or something!
> That's a bad ratio of good to bad images! :-)
>
> I did use the flash in the end, and my luck did improve. Thankfully, and
as
> you say, my fish didn't seem affected by it, so that's a relief. If it
was
> causing them to panic or swim frantically, I would have stopped, but they
> seemed normal. Some fish were even swimming up towards to camera to
> investigate! :-)
>
> The main problem is that the fish never stop moving, so it makes it
> difficult to focus on them. I've got quite a good digital camera, a Canon
> PowerShot G5, but it's not in the same league as a digital SLR. My
> autofocus is way too slow to catch a fish, and the manual focus is quite
hit
> and miss because I can only look on an LCD to see if it's in focus, and
it's
> very small - so what looks in focus on the small screen, might be out of
> focus on the computer screen. :-( I'd like to buy a digital SLR with
proper
> lenses later this year, but that's for another newsgroup... :-) Any
> photography buffs here? :-)
>
> Without the flash, I was shooting using a high ISO to get a decent shutter
> speed and reduce blurry images, but the photos were very noisy, so best
> using flash and ISO 50.
>
> I take my photos as Canon RAW files, so I haven't yet converted them to
> JPEG's and uploaded them to my webspace - it was quite late last night
when
> I was doing this! But I'll upload them this evening and post the links
> here. I hope to get better images in future, so practice will hopefully
> make perfect!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
>
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Hi Mel,

I've never noticed that my fish every stop moving! :-) I'll keep an eye on
them at the next feed.

Thanks,

Stephen


"Mel" <*@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I find that taking photos is easiest right after they have been fed and
are
> chewing their pellets up. They don't tend to move for a good 5 mins then!
> Mel.
>
> "ste mc ©" <ste.RemoveThis@sm9.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:400678db$0$9383$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
> >
> > "Charles" <ckraft.RemoveThis@SPAMTRAPwest.net> wrote in message
> > news:uoeb00h66dra88u1k5e61dov5gd69sov6l@4ax.com...
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:53:49 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste.RemoveThis@sm9.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hi there,
> > > >
> > > >I was just curious to know if any of you have photos of your
aquariums
> > and
> > > >fish to share? I've got a digital camera and was going to take a few
> > shots
> > > >of mine then upload them to my web space. The problem is that the
fish
> > > >never stop moving, so all my photos have been blurred! And I don't
> want
> > to
> > > >use the flash in case it scares the fish, and it would just bounce
off
> > the
> > > >glass anyway. I'll try using a higher ISO setting and see what I can
> > come
> > > >up with.
> > > >
> > > >In the meantime, I'll look forward to seeing what any of you have
got!
> > :-)
> > > >
> > > >Take care,
> > > >
> > > >Stephen
> > > >
> > > Take lots of pictures and delete the bad ones. I have never seen any
> > > effect of flash on the fish, they seem to ignore it. Shoot at an
> > > angle so the flash reflection does not come straight back to the
> > > camera. Expect a LOT of bad pictures, sometimes good ones happen.
> > >
> > > A google search for aquarium photography will give you many results.
> > >
> > > There is a group, alt.binaries.aquaria, for pictures of this sort, it
> > > is not carried by all news servers though.
> > >
> > > - Charles
> >
> >
> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > I took about 100 photos last night, and it was tough, as you say! I got
> > about 20 shots that were in focus, and of those, only about 10 shots
were
> > decent, ie, never had a fishes head or tail chopped off or something!
> > That's a bad ratio of good to bad images! :-)
> >
> > I did use the flash in the end, and my luck did improve. Thankfully,
and
> as
> > you say, my fish didn't seem affected by it, so that's a relief. If it
> was
> > causing them to panic or swim frantically, I would have stopped, but
they
> > seemed normal. Some fish were even swimming up towards to camera to
> > investigate! :-)
> >
> > The main problem is that the fish never stop moving, so it makes it
> > difficult to focus on them. I've got quite a good digital camera, a
Canon
> > PowerShot G5, but it's not in the same league as a digital SLR. My
> > autofocus is way too slow to catch a fish, and the manual focus is quite
> hit
> > and miss because I can only look on an LCD to see if it's in focus, and
> it's
> > very small - so what looks in focus on the small screen, might be out of
> > focus on the computer screen. :-( I'd like to buy a digital SLR with
> proper
> > lenses later this year, but that's for another newsgroup... :-) Any
> > photography buffs here? :-)
> >
> > Without the flash, I was shooting using a high ISO to get a decent
shutter
> > speed and reduce blurry images, but the photos were very noisy, so best
> > using flash and ISO 50.
> >
> > I take my photos as Canon RAW files, so I haven't yet converted them to
> > JPEG's and uploaded them to my webspace - it was quite late last night
> when
> > I was doing this! But I'll upload them this evening and post the links
> > here. I hope to get better images in future, so practice will hopefully
> > make perfect!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Photos of Your Aquariums and Fish 

Sand is not a good idea really. It can wear on the fishs mouths. It can also
house
anaerobic bacteria (deadly). Play sand contains high level of silicates which
will cause
a bloom of diatoms (brown algae) in the tank!
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Hi Gezzer,

It sounds as though the best and most problem-free solution is to have a
bare bottom tank! The thing is, although I've seen examples of these that
look great, I'd personally like mine to have at least something on the
bottom. I'll stick with the small pebbles for now, and perhaps keep on the
lookout for some larger pebbles that can be sterilised, and that are too big
to fix in a fishes mouth.

Stephen


"Geezer From Freezer" <Geezer.DeleteThis@Freezer.com> wrote in message
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> Sand is not a good idea really. It can wear on the fishs mouths. It can
also
> house
> anaerobic bacteria (deadly). Play sand contains high level of silicates
which
> will cause
> a bloom of diatoms (brown algae) in the tank!
 >> Stay informed about: Photos of Your Aquariums and Fish 

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:22:30 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste RemoveThis @sm9.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Azul" <Azul_Azure RemoveThis @hotmailDOT.com> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:07:26 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste RemoveThis @sm9.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Azul" <Azul_Azure RemoveThis @hotmailDOT.com> wrote in message
>> >news:9j0d00hb7ddf3s29d7te5abrql15s1rpkm@4ax.com...
>> >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:40:41 -0000, "ste mc ©" <ste RemoveThis @sm9.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>
>> <BIG Snip>
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks for sharing,
>> >> >
>> >> >Stephen
>> >> >
<Big Snip again>
>
>Hi Azul,
>
>I like the idea of using sand in the bottom of the tank, and it sounds like
>great fun to watch them moving it around, if mine do the same of course! :-)
>How do you sterilise it? Put it in boiling water? Or add some chemical to
>it? Be sure to email me or post any nice photos you get.
>
>Stephen
>
I bought it that way. This was sand to be used in a child's sand box,
so I guess they thought it would be better if it had been sterilized.
It was heat treated, that is what the bag says. Chemicals might hurt
the fish. The bag also said good for aquariums on it.

I will try to get the new photos up on the weekend. I got a 30G tank
for Mother's Day and I don't think I ever put it on my site.



Azul
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In article <4007F0B1.CE687CA DeleteThis @Freezer.com>, Geezer DeleteThis @Freezer.com says...
> Sand is not a good idea really. It can wear on the fishs mouths. It can also
> house
> anaerobic bacteria (deadly). Play sand contains high level of silicates which
> will cause
> a bloom of diatoms (brown algae) in the tank!
>

Where is this info from?
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Gunther wrote:
>
> In article <4007F0B1.CE687CA.RemoveThis@Freezer.com>, Geezer.RemoveThis@Freezer.com says...
> > Sand is not a good idea really. It can wear on the fishs mouths. It can also
> > house
> > anaerobic bacteria (deadly). Play sand contains high level of silicates which
> > will cause
> > a bloom of diatoms (brown algae) in the tank!
> >
>
> Where is this info from?

Gunther,

I was doing some research on diatoms about 3 months ago, on the web, and
found that some sands contain high levels of silicates, especially play sand!
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