View Full Version : Uno Mas Guppy pic : Tear it apart!
paradise
04-05-2005, 2:36 AM
Still playing with my lil photo tank, was trying some new Phillips lights, dont love them, back they go, but got this ONE cool pic, what do you think? Tear it to pieces. I can take it (probably will cry to myself, but you will never know) :-)
http://aquatic-photography.com/gallery/files/1/guppy040301.jpg
squidfish
04-05-2005, 6:13 AM
Hi Ed
Get the box of tissues out...only joking :)
Here are my thoughts
The exposure on this looks better than your last guppy shots with no 'burn-out' along the back.
Focus appears a touch on the soft side but I appreciate guppies are a nightmare to shoot at the best of times
Did you do some cloning under the fish's head as there appears a strange 'smeared' area under the gill region?
Some detail on the anal fin is lost as it blends somewhat into the background. The best definition results I have seen for transparent fins are in some of CDM shots where the fin is backed by a mid-grey background.
cheers
Rich
benny
04-05-2005, 10:57 AM
Ed,
It does seem a bit soft and not enough contrast between the subject and the background.
What's the EXIF data on this and was it shot on the 100 mm macro?
Cheers,
paradise
04-05-2005, 12:14 PM
You guys are both very right. I did not think about background choice too much. That slate is too similar in color. And there was a black spot under the head that I should have been more careful about taking out. It was late at night, I was cloning away too much I think. Here is the original before cloning, better?
http://aquatic-photography.com/pics/guppy3.jpg
The original background creates a better contrast than the cloned version. You still lose the details around the clear finnage and the background splits the fish in half, but better still.
Focus seems to be a little on the soft side. Interested in knowing what the exif info was on this also.
paradise
04-05-2005, 1:19 PM
LOL, I will be honest, I got rid of the originals, so it is impossible to tell. But from memory, it was somewhere around 5.6, ISO 200, about 1/125 or so. It was just a quick test run, I did not intend to even show these.
alanhill
04-05-2005, 6:54 PM
This shot would look fantastic against a plain mid-green or blue background. It might not look natural - but it's a man-made variety anyway. Backgrounds matter ;-)
Alan
The guppy looks like moved a bit. Since you get pretty close to it, you'll need smaller aperture size to get larger DOF for this pain in the A**. Maybe ISO400, F11 (or higher), and shutter faster than 1/125.