Just some pics......

[wharyat]

Awesome shots Bill.

My Canons have an AI focus mode that continuously focuses on a user set point -- I'm not familiar with Nikon but there has to be an equivalent AF mode. That's the best way I have found to keep fish in focus.

[VWD]

Great Pictures!!!!

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by VWD

Great Pictures!!!!

Originally Posted by dobejazz

wow Great shot of the Chrysis wrasse ! I never got a good pic of mine


They are all awesome though !

thank you

Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon

GREAT PICS!!! What camera did you get?

d-80

Originally Posted by aquawolf

Those pictures are great Bill. I think you pretty much have the camera figured out, and cannot imagine the quality pictures you will get if you haven't figured it out yet.

I can only sit back and drool over your pictures as mine will never be that good no matter what type of camera I may have.

Thank you ....but not true. I was totally clueless not too long ago...im still fairly clueless. the camera matters...a lot

Originally Posted by wharyat

Awesome shots Bill.

My Canons have an AI focus mode that continuously focuses on a user set point -- I'm not familiar with Nikon but there has to be an equivalent AF mode. That's the best way I have found to keep fish in focus.

I need to look for this. So you mean like focused always certain part of the tank/certain distance?? Im thinking I need to put the other lens on for fish as I shoot pretty much everything with the macro lens. the DOF is so dang small especially trying to get any decent pics of my chevron. He is so dark that I have to overexpose everything in the smallest fstop possible and he still comes out black and you cant see what he really looks like. This is the best picture I have ever gotten of him...............I wish I knw what I did as I havent been able to do it since with the old camera that took it or the new one.....and the background as you can see was massively overexposed to do it

[Sndwave80]

Nice Pics!

[wharyat]

Originally Posted by Fly Guy

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I need to look for this. So you mean like focused always certain part of the tank/certain distance?? Im thinking I need to put the other lens on for fish as I shoot pretty much everything with the macro lens. the DOF is so dang small especially trying to get any decent pics of my chevron. He is so dark that I have to overexpose everything in the smallest fstop possible and he still comes out black and you cant see what he really looks like. This is the best picture I have ever gotten of him...............I wish I knw what I did as I havent been able to do it since with the old camera that took it or the new one.....and the background as you can see was massively overexposed to do it

You might want to throw on a slight flash, just drop it as low as you can, while upping the shutter so it still looks like only tank light.

That's the method I used on this pic:

You can tell it was flash; but it can be adjusted further tho either in shutter and ap settings or in PS.

The AI focus program on my cameras, continuously keeps a point in focus. If you pan the camera while focusing, that point will constantly be in focus no matter the distance.

[Fly Guy]

Ok wharyat.....Like I said before...I think its going to work wonders if I put on a lens with more DOF than my macro....which I havent done yet....but I did figure something out. MORE ISO. Ive been shooting with super low numbers as they work better for the macros of corals........I also picked up this p[rogram called lightroom, and realized I have been cutting myself short for the last year usiong that POS nikonview to convert and edit. That noise reduction button is the coolest button EVER. I caught that dang PB finally without the massive blur.........

[mg]

Awsome pics Bill, makes me wish a new camera was in the budget...

[Fly Guy]

[wharyat]

Great shots.

Yeah, ISO can be a good setting once shutter and ap can't get me there. I try to keep it the absolute last setting to change due to the noise; but normally up to 800 shoots pretty clean on reef shots; 3200 is just a mess with "low" shutter speeds (less than 1/1000).

Lightroom is a great program, I use it in conjunction with Bridge and Photoshop.

[rookie reefer]

what kind of fish is this it looks amazing btw awesome pics i wish mine could be half has good as yours.

[Fly Guy]

Thanks rookiereefer. Its a leopard wrasse.

[rookie reefer]

cool i might have to get one

[rookie reefer]

are they hard to keep

[Privitor]

wow some breath taking stuff you have here!!!

[FishDaddy]

Super photos, Bill! Those fish and coral closeups are awesome! You've got that new D80 dialed in pretty well.

Dick