Cherry Red Shrimp

[benny]

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On 12/11/2003 12:17:35 PM

Yeah I think I'll go feed that snail to my loach.
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Hey Ghazanfar!

Why don't you get some nice pictures of that snail too. Since it's got such nice colors. The curves may make an interesting photographic subject.

Cheers,

[naturetan]

Your first image of cherry shrimp provides very good background interest. It have 2 constrasting interest, this result in leading the eyes visually from the foreground to the background, making the background rather complementary for the main subject, and a sense of natural look.

You can improve the image better by composing it in a more dynamic way. The wood is the line of interest. Capture the image slightly to the left instead (more parallel in plane with the shrimp). This make the lines more diagonal in the composition (from bottom right to top left), thus cropping slightly the background greenery, giving a false sense of greater space to provide endless background interest. Such cropping would leave the viewer a sense of wonder in the unknown space, providing them some clue for imagination. The whole image would also be more visually balanced thus.

What ISO speed you use for your otos?

[mordrake]

hi
really envy u guys on your ability to take such nice macro shots.
i have the minolta dimage z1 and i can't seem to do these macro shots.

[ah tong]

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On 12/5/2003 2:38:45 AM

Nothing done with the color of the killie - though I did blur out part of an angel
fish that was in the background. I used a flash in that shot and the colors came out
really saturated. With the mouth open like that, light entered the mouth too, giving
it a little translucency in the mouth area. That's one picture I'm going to have to color
correct the fish in - actually will have to reduce the saturation.
The fish itself is really colorful though. I took 15 - 25 shots of that fish, all of them
coming out like that.


For the Otto shot, I think I was using Macro rings, +1,+2,+4 for the really close up shot.
For the other one, I was using just the standard lens.

Using a Sony DSC F707.


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Bro,

I must say those shots of your oto and yamato shrimp are my favourites!
Sorry to hi-jack your thread here, do you know what macro lens should i go looking for if i wanna fit to my Nikkon FM10 to take pic of fishes?

[Ghazanfar Ghori]

Yeah the first picture does have a better background. I was just trying to get
a good closeup of the shimp vs. good photograph though.

I don't remember the ISO speed for the Otto picture - most of the time it's set to auto
anyway.

[naturetan]

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On 12/11/2003 5:05:07 PM

Yeah the first picture does have a better background. I was just trying to get
a good closeup of the shimp vs. good photograph though.

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Actually, good closeup can also be excellent photography. It works both together. Whatever shot we do, whether closeup, tele, landscape, etc, all have a high potential to be good photography. Showing good artistic sense of rules and knowledge of visual language is important. It helps to go beyond technical, add more spices in the emotional aspects, using it to our advantage, and break it when we choose to, for a different perspective & style.

Visual language has been well researched by leading psychologists for many years in human visual perception and aesthetics. It gives us a good idea of how human perceive things/art/color/etc, using such knowledge to our greatest advantage. Thus to say photographic art is completely subjective is not true.

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I don't remember the ISO speed for the Otto picture - most of the time it's set to auto anyway.

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It's a bit grainy for that pictures, but not sure whether that's natural for digital CCD or your ISO, since I'm not completely into digital cameras yet.

One of the good potential of close up you've got is the first pic of 'Amano shrimp' (with eggs). It has a good perspective to force viewer to take a closer look at its body. Moreover, the body has a beautiful and repetitive pattern, giving it rather delightful yet playful rhythm to our visual eyes. Magnification is good, but slightly more depth of field will be better.

Just like the first image, composition again a bit static. Sometimes it just take a slight tilt of angle(for your case, few degree CW) and the overall image becomes more interesting.