Photo's Taken mostly W/Flash

[Armpit]

I had the tank light on and it was about mid-day. I am not to happy with the results. The latest pictures are called Third round of Pic's These were taken with my new Fuji FinePix S5000. If you could give me some ideas it would be very helpful.

http://community.webshots.com/user/slobbingham

[JerseyJay]

If you could give me some ideas it would be very helpful.

I see the common mistake with use of flash. Instead of explaining in words, please read this presentation which was presented at AGA Convention last year by Mike Cameroon and concentrate on page 12.

Are we talking about internal or external flash ?

If you are using internal flash, I wish you good luck b/c you will need a lot of it. I wasn't too lucky with internal flash. You need to upgrade your equipment to external flash and follow basic rules described in the article.

With external flash you can position the flash to your left or on top of the tank and use shutter speed/aperture to control the Depth of Field, darkness of your background etc.

http://www.greenstouch.com/various/aquarium_photography.pdf

Jay is right, internal flashes are not meant for aqua photography, because of the glass reflections and color washing out, as you are flashing right AT the subject.

You have two options:
A. Get a very good Power Compact Lighitng system (JBJ and Coralife make excellent ones, but it's somewhat an investment) and use NO flash (what I do)
B. Get an external flash and follow the directions in the link Jay provided. Everyone should read this article anyways :)

LMK if you need more help/questions
Ed

[Gordeez]

Im not as good as the two photographers above me, but When using the Internal flash, The main thing is to Shoot at an Angle.
That way, you wont get glare as much.
http://www.pbase.com/mikal/image/34495695/medium.jpg
This was taken with a flash.

Now On the lighting...If your cheap like me...lol...do what I did.
Well, I did two things...
#1) Go to Wal-mart or Home Depot, And buy 2 48 in. Light Fixtures For like $10 or 12 each. Then I bought my Bulbs from Home Depot, 4 48 in. Naural Daylight Bulbs for like $6 Each.
#2) I bought those flood light looking things...4 of them for like $7 ea. and 4 Daylight Spiral Bulbs for $7 ea. The Bulbs are 75 Watts Each.

[Armpit]

Thanks all for the information. Hey gord how do you upload the picture like you did? And did you have to shrink the image?

Check out this link on the explanation on how to put pictures directly into your post. It's quite easy to follow, please try a few in this thread so that you figure it out.
http://aquatic-photography.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=900

The size of the pic is limited to 640 pixels wide. That is enough for most members' pics.

Ed
PS: You may want to give us your name, it's hard to call you Armpit all the time :)

[Armpit]

My name is mike. Thanks but the problem is my fuji camera the lowest setting is 1024 I think. Lemme go read about what you posted. Thanks

yes, you do need to resize the photos. Photoshop or any similar public domain programs would do it for you.