Tank Photography

[valice]

From the same site which Petah provided in the other thread...

This is other way to light up the tank for our tank photography... Benny, you think think way can mitigate the problem of insufficient flashes?

http://www.cau-aqua.net/index.php?op...d=30&Itemid=39

Thought that the idea of putting a T5 at the back to create that water line effect was quite interesting. Something which we can also incorporate in future...

[Rupert]

Couldn't read the writing, but I like this person’s ingenuity; the light could be place anywhere according to the aquasape settings

[baranne]

This looks interesting.. but you would need to find the right size carton...

[valice]

It can be made to size... Just need more carton boxes...

[benny]

This is other way to light up the tank for our tank photography... Benny, you think think way can mitigate the problem of insufficient flashes?

http://www.cau-aqua.net/index.php?op...d=30&Itemid=39

Thought that the idea of putting a T5 at the back to create that water line effect was quite interesting. Something which we can also incorporate in future...

Interesting. Pretty much similar to what we did with Justikanz's tank. A good solution for small tank set up, especially for open tanks with a sparse aquascape. For densely planted tanks, you will still have problems with certain shadow areas. Fill flash is still needed.

I believe the T5 is predominantly use as a focusing aid/light.

Cheers,

[ranmasatome]

i think this would work with probably 2ft and below.. after that.. you'll have a hard time findining boxes that size.. however, there is always the option to make one

[Harryplanter]

Hi everyone. I'm Harry from CAU.
Thanks for interested in my carton light box.

Yes, the T5 is just for modeling light only. Since T5 is much weaker that the flash it will not affect the result but we need light to focus and observe. Why I use T5 is because it is cheap and easily to buy in Hong Kong also it doesn't block the way and it is cool light.If you cannot find T5 you can use a light bulk placing at next to the flash, but beware of the heat. Dry battery torch also work.

Finding a carton of size less that 2 ft is to find in the supermarket. The biggest size I've made is 3 feet wide x 2 ft height, and I've use a 300W studio flash light for shooting.

It's always a problem of shooting densely planted tanks, since the shadow is hard to eliminate. We cannot use side light because of glass reflection. In ADA's photo I observed that they will use spot flash to solve this problem. However spot flash is expensive.

The underneath photos are taken from the above carton light box.

[michael lai]

Hi Harry,
Welcome to Aquatic Quotient. Great site, ingenious and very informative. Like they say, a picture speaks a thousand words. Keep up the good work