Atlanta Aquarium

Thought some of you may be interested in seeing the largest aquarium in the world;



Davex.

Some big-uns in there Dave, cracking shot........now where's my rod!

That's a big piece of glass Dave

Got a shot with a whale shark in it?

Visited a few summers ago and absolutely loved the entire place.

Nice image. This stands as a good documentary photo too, thats why I think B&W will work on this shot too.

Which one, they have 4

Indeed I have, will be posting some later in week.

Martin, the glass is acryllic, 2 feet thick, like GivingTree says, the place is truly jaw dropping.

Paul, prefer to leave B&W to the experts, feel free if you want to.

Davex.

Don't you think the whole blue = water = aquarium thing works here? I might be tempted to make the foreground figures more black silhouettes but I would have thought the blue of the water adds to the shot. Just my tuppence worth!

I would have like it more square onto the aquarium so you don't have that annoying area on the left with the screen?/reflection? in it. The people in silhouette against the blue water would then be great. As it is it feels to me more like a quick snapshot than a thought out photo.

I think (I may be wrong) that the OP was trying to amaze us with the aquarium rather than the photo. And yup, I am amazed!

Bang on Womble, difficult to take anything other than snap shots in the dark, no flash allowed. Am working on a few other images to give a better idea of the place.

Davex.

I realised, that. But I still think it would have been more impressive and a better photo if you had been squarer on to it.
Sorry if you don't appreciate my criticism.
Tbh it doesn't convey the size of the aquarium to me. I have been to plenty and can't get a feel for how much bigger this is than some of the others I have been to. Sorry.

No problem Gwyn, Your critique is correct it does need a crop.Maybe when i put a few shots on you might get a better idea of the size of this place.


Davex.

I cant fault the rest of your comments Gwyn but the bit above make me wonder Surely here are enough people in the shot to give a good enough sense of scale?

Dave, you could try the skew/distort/perspective tools to square the image up, it would make the spectators on the left larger but they could feasibly be nearer the camera anyway, still a very nice shot for a snap though.

EDIT....A bit like this;
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Prefer this;



A couple more from the same place;






The shark above is 22 foot long.

Jelly fish below is aprox 10 foot;




Davex.