Oh fishy, fishy, fishy!
Posted 07/02/2011 - 00:06
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The first two are a bit soft even at this smallish size, nice enough composition and colours though.
The last one works well. The eye looks sharp and that's usually the most important bit. The crop is good, more space in front than behind, and not too tight. Decent background, possibly slight burnout in the top right but not too noticeable, nicely OOF. Well done, and it looks like you have the eye
The last one works well. The eye looks sharp and that's usually the most important bit. The crop is good, more space in front than behind, and not too tight. Decent background, possibly slight burnout in the top right but not too noticeable, nicely OOF. Well done, and it looks like you have the eye
Tim
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Posted 07/02/2011 - 19:48
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Thanks for the comments! They aren't my fish, they were taken in a small public aquarium at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. I have quite a few more but many of them were spoiled because the tanks are in poor condition - i.e. there are a lot of scratches on the glass which unfortunately show up all too clearly in many of the photos. I assume all the scratches are the result of kids messing around because there is no permanent supervision in the place.
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C&Cs welcome, as folks say around here. As I'm a beginner I need to start getting some criticism.
Anyway, here's another thing the K-5's high ISO capability is good for - photographing fish in dimly lit aquaria. It's still pretty hard to get a good shot though; they just don't stop moving around for long! Tracking them with manual focus is quite hard, although I imagine autofocus would struggle too in this kind of light.
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