Archive for the ‘Aquarium Photography’ Category
Picture of the Week – 8/30 – 9/5
This week’s Picture of the Week is a two part entry… Photograph taken with a Canon XSi with the stock EF-S 18-55mm lens Photograph taken with Canon XSi with 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens. This week’s entry is of a Radioactive Dragon Eye Zoanthid frag that I picked up from a local fish store. The first [...]
Unique Blue Hippo Tang at LFS
Unlike last weekend’s trip to the LFS, this recent trip proved to be a bit more successful. I ventured into All About Fish, a local store that is absolutely immaculate and has some of the healthiest livestock in the area. I made the usual rounds, looking into every single tank in the shop. I was [...]
Feeding Your Harlequin Filefish
A friend from a local aquarium club has recently had quite a bit of success with a pair of Harlequin Filefish, and he wanted to share his adventure. The bonded pair was purchased from LiveAquaria, one of our favorite online livestock retailers. The usually finicky eaters were then coaxed into taking prepared foods. This was [...]
Picture of the Week – 8/23 – 8/29
Here’s a macro shot of an Amphiprion ocellaris clownfish. This shot was particularly hard to take, as I wasn’t using a tripod and I had a 100mm macro lens on the camera. Luckily, the fish was being very still, though it still took me several shots just to get a decent one. The Ocellaris clownfish, [...]
AquaNerd’s Continued Expansion…Now Making Videos
We’ve got Facebook and Twitter covered, and now we’re heading to video sharing worlds of YouTube and Vimeo. We only have two videos so far, but we’re working on that. Our first video is a crummy one taken with my cell phone. It features a gorgeous purple Rhinopias moving around on the sand bed of [...]
Frustrating Picture Taking at the LFS
Today was one of those days. I was at the pet store trying to take some pictures and nothing seemed to be going right. The store was packed full of people, I left my tripod at home, and I couldn’t get any clear shots. The light levels in the tanks were very low, causing my [...]
Photoshopping Coral Pictures
I have noticed on a few occasions, several hobbyists using Photoshop and other photo editing/enhancing software to make their corals and fish appear more beautiful or more attractive. Some of these enhancements were meaningless, as the hobbyist was merely showing off pictures of their tanks and the image wasn’t significantly enhanced. However, some of the [...]
Picture of the Week – 8/16 – 8/22
Pictured this week is a macro shot of an Acropora granulosa. This coral is extremely pretty, but there’s an issue with the coral in this picture. Can anyone spot it? I’ll give you a hint, it’s very tiny and is not desirable to have on an Acro coral. Click on the image and then zoom [...]
The AquaNerd Photobook
I was browsing the thousands of photos I’ve taken over the past few years and I decided to try make something of them. Recalling a photobook a friend had given my wife for our wedding, I decided to a photobook of my own. This book will not feature pictures of my wife and I, much [...]
A Brief Stop at the LFS (Picture Intensive)
This past weekend I decided to pay one of my favorite fish stores a visit. Camera in hand, I snapped off a ton of photos. Unfortunately, I left the tripod at home, so most of the pictures came out sub-par. I tried to freehand the shots while using a macro lens, which proved extremely difficult [...]
