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red with white spots yup. not bright red yet...he's still not fully colored up yet, but he's workin on it

a bunch of my guys love to do it all in the same area...this guy, my trewavasae, a couple of the electric yellows, and a couple of the demasoni's but the demasoni's are still so small that they only get like one or two grains of sand at a time, it's pretty funny to watch them...I'll post up some more pics in a bit here...just importing some of the new ones off the camera, I rented a wicked lens for the weekend, so I'm playing around a bit with the camera tonight.

I could go with one

ah...totally forgot that I posted them off facebook...uh...first one is: Camera Model: NIKON D300 Flash Used: No Focal Length: 50.0mm (35mm equivalent: 75mm) Exposure Time: 0.0031 s (1/320) Aperture: f/1.4 ISO equiv: 800 White Balance: Auto Metering Mode: Matrix Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto) second one is: Camera Model: NIKON D300 Flash Used: No Focal Length: 50.0mm (35mm equivalent: 75mm) Exposure Time: 0.0050 s (1/200) Aperture: f/1.4 ISO equiv: 800 White Balance: Auto Metering Mode: Matrix Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)

I have a non-dominant taiwan reef in my 250 gallon, the big dominant male LOVES to chase this guy around to no end, yesterday while I was cleaning the tank I noticed a big chunk of flesh missing from the side of the little guy, I'm wondering if this could realistically be caused by battle damage?

using auto focus it will occasionally do that to you for sure...might try working with manual. also keep in mind that as the aperture gets smaller the DOF effect will get more and more pronounced, and the in focus area will get smaller, and going to the upper limit of your focal length range(I'm assuming you're shooting with an 18-55mm lens) further magnifies the effect. in this case it appears to have chosen the body of the fish as the focal point. I'm assuming these are cropped down quite a bit? I can't see sitting close enough to the glass to make a 47m focal length be that much of a close up of a fish :P also are you doing a lot of post process sharpening of some kind? often things like unsharp mask and the sharpening tool in adobe lightroom will leave you with little halos around your subjects...just something to watch for. another thing that you may wish to consider is faster glass...it's an investment I know...but often you can find good deals on glass if you look around. here's a tamron that actually tests really well when compared with the canon equivelant http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-c...QQAdIdZ90774678 and another REALLY nice lens to have is a 50 mm prime, nikon makes a 50mm 1.4 but I'm not sure if canon makes an equivelant...here's a link to canons 50mm 1.8 which boasts some EXCELLENT image sharpness results even when used wide open. these lenses are excellent for portraiture of the non fishy variety too, as the 1.8 aperture is going to allow you to shoot MUCH faster, and as such you can turn the iso back down a couple steps to really bring out that color definition and image quality that lower iso gives you. http://vistek.ca/store/CameraLenses/107416...18-ii-lens.aspx hard to beat it at that price. keep in mind as well that lenses can continue to be used on the upgraded camera bodies as well, so buying your first dslr can actually be viewed as investing in a camera system. Almost all of the accessories you buy for the XSi can be used on everything up to a 5D, so even if it currently seems silly to spend up to the value of the body of your camera on a lens, it eventually can come to make sense. I'm renting a 70-200 mm 2.8 for the bike show this weekend, I'm hoping to have some time to take some fish shots with it too

I'm impressed with the high iso quality on that XSi I've gotta say...that last shot is very good. just his face is a little soft. gorgeous fish, nice shot. the compressiceps shot is also very good, but he's against a background that doesn't make him stand out as much as he could, wich is really the only criticism I can offer on either...I'm by no means a pro photographer though, so take it with a grain of salt.

better shots for sure I'm trying to make sense of the info in the shots, you are shooting these zoomed right in I assume right?

I was lookin through pics last night and judging from the pics dennis showed me I believe he's a Copadichromis trewavasae...

Got bored and decided to take a couple pics: First two are of the Dominant male Taiwan Reef from fairdeal, he's just starting to show all his colors: I have no idea what this guy is...I bought him from gold's along with two females Group of 5 mpimbwe from fairdeal Little ruby red just starting to give himself away as a male.

ah cool...excellent set up from the sounds of things...I don't have an external flash...I shoot with a D300 and 50 mm 1.4...so I can pretty much shoot hand held in the dark...but definitely can't get results like yours without an external set up. gorgeous shots.

I meant what camera and lens :P although you must have an impressive amount of light to be shooting at that small an aperture and iso 100. using a flash? everytime I try to use the flash my pics end up all washed out...which makes me sad

you strip the exif data I was gonna see what you're shootin with :P

I have an aqueon 300 what heater that appears to be making a ticking sound, I have heard it a few times and originally decided it was coming from the AC 110, but today it was making the sound again and I unplugged the 110 and it was still going...unplugged the heater and it immediately stopped... anyone ever heard of a heater causing noise?