Aquarium Photography

[Gaz.]

These have all needed a fair bit of PP and are still dark, but at ISO800 they can't really be brightened up without a feck load of noise (and I've reduced a lot of noise!)...

 

[Ian]

Like you say, a shame that they are dark, but I guess a tripod wouldn't be much use in this type of situation; doesn't look like you could have gone much wider with the aperture either. I like that it's not obvious that they've had a lot of PP done to them though, quite a hard thing to achieve.

I've heard a few people rave on about a program called Noise Ninja, I don't know if you'd be able to acquire that?

 

[Gaz.]

Like you say, a shame that they are dark, but I guess a tripod wouldn't be much use in this type of situation; doesn't look like you could have gone much wider with the aperture either. I like that it's not obvious that they've had a lot of PP done to them though, quite a hard thing to achieve.

I've heard a few people rave on about a program called Noise Ninja, I don't know if you'd be able to acquire that?

Ideally I need fast glass, possibly in macro guise. I might try the sigma 55-200mm @ 55mm next time. That way I can get f4 instead of f5.6 with the kit lens.

I'll have a gander for Noise Ninja, the name rings some bells. TBF, CS4 did quite a good job at getting rid though.

 

[GeordieClioDriver]

neat image is supposed to be a great program to use. The free trial is the same as the full version .. without a photoshop plugin... just mean savin em and opening in photoshop or vice versa

 

[extremeinferno]

i gave this a go pretty happy with results realy

showing off my fish rather than photography realy lol

 

[Gaz.]

Did you use a lens above 55mm zoom?

 

[Ian]

Doesn't look like it

48mm,
32mm,
40mm,
44mm

 

[Gaz.]

Ta Ian, don't have EXIF viewer on this mac yet.

Seems his fish are probably less timid/larger lol.

 

[Ian]

Hmm it's hard to say! They look like small fish, but I don't really know; I'm sure extremeinferno will be able to shed some light.

They don't look quite as clear as yours; think that's probably due to handheld at slow shutter speeds at a guess, but the apertures are all quite wide and the ISO is right up.

 

[Gaz.]

I just stuck mine on manual and 1/60 or 1/80 with as wide as possible aperture and ISO800, then adjusted the exposure afterwards in PS to avoid the blurring. Could have gone higher ISO but IMO it' a big weakness of the D40.

 

[extremeinferno]

sorry i took i while to reply, they were shot with a 18-55 lens on a d60, cant realy remember the settings. probably just in auto as they were taken in very early days.

the fish a quite small (around 2")