If a Picture is worth 1000 words ..........(Dial up warning)

[New_b0401]

WOW How beautiful!!! Great job the pictures are fabulous definitely worth the 23,000 words 

[PaulineMi]

My favs are 2, 9 (the smokey on the left) & 14 .   

[JR]

I love them all. My favs are15, 16 and 23

[EdKaz]

Thanks All for the compliments on the fish and Photos.

How are you taking those excellent photos?  I'm curious about your camera & settings, etc...

Currently Im using a Canon 6D(SLR) with both an on camera and an off camera slave flash.

+1 Teach is oh wise one....

Grab your vidideo camera and come on out  and we can do a video on how/what Im doing....it could take another 2000 words to try to explain it all.

If there is interest and If I get some time in the next couple days, Ill try to take some pix of some of the setups (and updated pix of the "kids") as well as try to explain the how/what and why of what I did for these pix. Ya'll might  get a kick out knowing these were all shot using a Styrofoam cooler "flash modifier" 

Ill also try to set  something up  for those with point and shoot cameras, using easily obtained and inexpensive lighting ideas.

[PaulineMi]

Count me in. I'm definitely interested.

[wsantia1]

I am interested too. I'm tired of taking lousy pictures of fish.   I take decent pictures of people and regular pets but fish have me stumped.

I have a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V that I know is capable of much more than I can do with it.

[EdKaz]

 Here are a couple links to a pretty good explanation of what it will take to get decent fish pix for anyone interested. This guy does a GREAT job in explaining MANY things to help get you started in the right direction.

http://fish-etc.com/knowledge/how-to-photograph-your-fish-and-tank-part-1

http://fish-etc.com/knowledge/to-photograph-fish-aquarium-part-2


The key thing to take away from those writings, and most important to getting decent pix of your fish  is LIGHT

LOTS of BRIGHT LIGHT......the ability to manipulate camera settings, knowing which settings to change.......practice/experimentation........ and patience.

I can try and help decepher/explain what is written on those pages (that save me a WHOLE lotta two fingered typing) If ya have any questions after reading those pages fire away.

Ill get some pix of my fishy portrait setups up sometime lin the coming days.

Im heading out for a few days...........the trees and bushes around here are SCREAMING in  wet evenly lit deep Reds, Bright Oranges and Yellows........All the makins for some pretty fall color scenery pix. My FAVORITE time of year

[wsantia1]

Thanks a lot Ed.

[Mugwump]

  Im heading out for a few days...........the trees and bushes around here are SCREAMING in  wet evenly lit deep Reds, Bright Oranges and Yellows........All the makins for some pretty fall color scenery pix. My FAVORITE time of year

Yes sir, mine too.....   areas like 'Starve Rock', and the lower Fox River ( a top ten in 'Canoeing America') have some of the best scenery anywhere.......altho, I'm rather fond of Western NY too...

[PaulineMi]

Thanks for the links Ed.

[Mugwump]

Those are some great links Ed....just finished ans I can almost remember what I read...cool.....nicelt done....

[PaulineMi]

Those are some great links Ed....just finished ans I can almost remember what I read...cool.....nicelt done....

The "remembering it all" is the stickler.   

[Mugwump]

Those are some great links Ed....just finished ans I can almost remember what I read...cool.....nicelt done....

The "remembering it all" is the stickler.   

LOL......you got that right, Pauline......but I guess after a bit of doing it, it becomes second nature..?