Cathy,

Just send me an email. My address is in my profile. Just click my name to see my profile. I'll send it along.

Geo

Greetings Cathy! It seems you enjoy photographing fish. In addition to all the good help you are getting here You might want to take a look at this: http://www.aquatic-photography.com/forum/
I don't get much opportunity to practice shooting fish through glass into water but from what I gather it's rather technically challenging. To get the two shots below I used a shoe mounted on-camera flash and pressed my lens hood flush up against the glass to avoid the light of the flash bouncing off the glass and back through the lens. In the first shot you can see the shadow of the fish down and behind which was produced by the method I described. It's less evident in the second shot, but still visible. I've also noticed that fish don't seem to be very cooperative subjects! Keep at it and you'll have some winning shots before you know it.

Thank you so much for writing, Buddy. Hmmm, you seem to have it pretty well figured out. Future TFH Centerfolds, perhaps?

:-)

If that's your salt-water set-up I'm even more envious.

You're right about the fish, they can TELL the second they're in focus, and they dart away just in time to ruin the shot. Don't ask me how they know it!

The link is much appreciated, I visited and will enjoy learning and browsing there as well. I'll look for your threads!

Good day! I see you posted another version. There is no comment though.I'm interested in knowing what you did, and your thoughts . . .

I cropped it a little differently. The most noisy parts were the dark areas so I actually made them darker and thus more uniform. Then I used the color selector tool, selected the orange areas of the fish/fins and increased color saturation, also lightened up the orange where I could. Finally I selected all of the green area and used a gaussian blur filter with a little brightening. As you learn to control exposure more, your pictures will contain so much detail that your post-processing options will expand accordingly. A poorly exposed photo has a lot more junk in it than actual 'data' so post-processing options are slim to none really.

I sometimes have a hard time giving up on a bad capture. But if you work on them enough you can sometimes squeeze out something half-way interesting. That's what happened with this shot from the moving walkway in the tunnel at a Ripley's Aquarium.

Buddy, I really like what you did with your shark! At first I thought 'gallery painting' but then I thought of the wonderful illustrated nature books I had as a child, and this reminds me of those (and all the good memories that go with them).

I love the composition. I'm learning/trying to make the background elements and 'negative space' an intregal part of the impact of an image, as you've done, rather than cropping too close. My humble ameteur opinion, but I love what you did with this.

I've probably spent too many years studying and admiring wildlife painters/sculptors and their work, as well as doing my own, to not get excited when a photo evokes that in me.

Thank you so much for experimenting with my rasbora photo -- and especially for sharing this image - -

More, please!

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