My "Lamp." similis photo gallery

Cichlidiot wrote:

I've put up a page with my current photo gallery of my similis tanks and
their fry. I got some good photos with my new digital camera in macro mode
which motivated me to post the pictures. Later on, I'll make a more
detailed breeding tank style page.

Here's the URL:

http://www.shwaine.com/fish_similis.html

Enjoy.



Hi,

I think you can improve the quality of your photos,
if you would use more creative means like framing of the fish (golden
section).

Anyway good results for first photos.

Regards

Siggi

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Homepage http://www.naturundfoto.net
Fische http://www.aquanet.de/Privat/naturaquarium/

In rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids Siegfried Baesler wrote:

I think you can improve the quality of your photos,
if you would use more creative means like framing of the fish (golden
section).

Golden section is rather hard to do when framing multiple moving subjects.
It's a nice theory, but much harder practice. I've taken photo classes in
the past and found some use golden section as a crutch anyways. It's not a
required thing for framing shots and sometimes looks quite unnatural with
certain subjects. Besides, these are all crops of much larger photographs
to make them small enough to put on a webpage. If I really wanted to, at
the expense of file size, I could recrop to have the main focal object in
a golden section, but I found that to be unneccessary.

Cichlidiot wrote:

In rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids Siegfried Baesler wrote:



I think you can improve the quality of your photos,
if you would use more creative means like framing of the fish (golden
section).



Golden section is rather hard to do when framing multiple moving subjects.
It's a nice theory, but much harder practice.


That is true, it is a hard job.

I've taken photo classes in
the past and found some use golden section as a crutch anyways. It's not a
required thing for framing shots and sometimes looks quite unnatural with
certain subjects. Besides, these are all crops of much larger photographs
to make them small enough to put on a webpage. If I really wanted to, at
the expense of file size, I could recrop to have the main focal object in
a golden section, but I found that to be unneccessary.


I often see photos from fishes, they look all egual, because of bullseye
focus. Those kind of photos are usful for books, but the more
interesting photos are photos they tell a story and with a photo you can
initiate that.
But this is my personal opinion.

Greatings
Siggi

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Email
Homepage www.naturundfoto.net
Fische www.aquanet.de/Privat/naturaquarium/
phone +49 30 755 18 770

In rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids Siegfried B?sler wrote:
I often see photos from fishes, they look all egual, because of bullseye
focus. Those kind of photos are usful for books, but the more
interesting photos are photos they tell a story and with a photo you can
initiate that.
But this is my personal opinion.

Well, if I could really be argumentative here, show me which photo of mine
on that page, other than the whole tank shot and the one closeup of the
similis on the blue-grey-green background, that has the fish in the exact
center of focus. With the exception of the two listed, which would look
rather wierd if shot differently IMO, all the others have the fish
off-center in a fuzzy form of the rule of thirds which takes into account
multiple subjects and the backgrounds.

Take the first photo of the similis in the 10gal. He is in the upper third
of the shot, although a little close to center. The rock is in the left
third. The shell is in the right third. The closeup of the fry in front of
the leaves uses the leaves to create the thirds. The fry is somewhat
off-center. The larger leaf takes up 2/3rds of the photo, the small leaves
make up the other third and the fry is at the margins of the two.

As I said in the first post, I could have cropped these photos to an exact
golden rule in several cases (others could not due to the issue of framing
multiple subjects that I also mentioned), but it would have increased
their file size to an extent I found unneccessary given the fact that the
current croppings don't have any of the fish dead smack in the middle of
the photo except for the closeup of the similis. That one is more of a
portrait which would look rather odd, due to the lack of balancing
background, if the fish were not somewhat centered, but even then, it is
not exactly centered.

"Cichlidiot" wrote in message
...
In rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids Siegfried B?sler
wrote:
I often see photos from fishes, they look all egual, because of bullseye
focus. Those kind of photos are usful for books, but the more
interesting photos are photos they tell a story and with a photo you can
initiate that.
But this is my personal opinion.

Well, if I could really be argumentative here, show me which photo of mine

Yah Yah Yah. If you didn't want some critical comments why post at all?
You want us all to go 'oh wow'

You remind me of that idiot on American Idol when told his performance
sucked, threw a glass of water in the judges face. Grow up, get a life, and
learn some humility.


Graham.

P.S. I thought the photos were okay, nothing to rave about.

Graham Broadbridge wrote in message
.. .
"Cichlidiot" wrote in message
...
In rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids Siegfried B?sler
wrote:
I often see photos from fishes, they look all egual, because of
bullseye
focus. Those kind of photos are usful for books, but the more
interesting photos are photos they tell a story and with a photo you
can
initiate that.
But this is my personal opinion.

Well, if I could really be argumentative here, show me which photo of
mine

Yah Yah Yah. If you didn't want some critical comments why post at all?
You want us all to go 'oh wow'

You remind me of that idiot on American Idol when told his performance
sucked, threw a glass of water in the judges face. Grow up, get a life,
and
learn some humility.


Graham.

P.S. I thought the photos were okay, nothing to rave about.



ok, to all involved he
Do you think it might be a good idea if this was the last post in this
thread? Why not just forget about arguing this thread and just move on.
You're not going to convince each other that you are right or they are wrong
etc. Really there is no point to continuing this thread is there? unless you
really enjoy arguing of course.

So, who can stand up here and help keep our fantastic aquaria groups free of
silly arguements like this?

paul.

p.s. I won't be reading any further posts in this thread, so please don't
bother to reply to this post.