Is Julie the only one that posts things from aquairums?

Just thought I’d share some of my fined friends.

This is a Botia histrionica


and a Botia striata


A Clown loach


and an flowering Anubias

Very cool Jeff! I know *nothing* about freshwater fish, these are beautiful though

How did you do the shoot?

Thanks Julie,
These are all loaches of the Botia species from Asia and Indonesia. I do like your clowns better, but in fresh water, these are my favorite. These are rather small, the largest of these shots being the clown at over 3 inches long. The other two are maybe 3”. I shoot with a Tamron 90 macro Di on my D70. Since I have no Nikon flashes I setup exposure manually. Usually a 1/500-1/1000 shutter speed and tweak aperture to around 9. Then two flashes are set on tripods right up close to the tank with Lumiquest bounce cards attaches. The flashes are normal generic tilt head 120ish GN flashes. With the 90mm and the size of these fish I am within a couple feet of the tank of course off at a slight angle like the flashes to avoid flash back off the glass. That’s about it, be patient, and wait for them to come up to the cleaned glass and pose.

Hey Jeff,

Great shots from your aquarium. Curiously,you say that you are shooting between 1/500th and 1/1000th of a second. This is well beyond the camera's reported ability to accurately expose images from non Nikon Flashes. How are you doing it?

James

Thanks James,
Nikon reports a 1/500 max for the D70 right, so I am not to far off. Like you said though, I can go manually up above 1/1000 and have shot at 1/1250 a few time for no good reason:) My assumption is that the flash pulse is just quick enough for the flashes I use, and apparently the trigger voltage is on the hot shoe either way. I have read that a typical flash pulse is on the order of 1/10000. Maybe what Nikon is saying is TTL and iTTL are only accurate up to 1/500 and since I am manually setting up the aperture per the histogram and flashing highlights (expose to the right) it doesn’t really matter. I had the same thing with my ld Coolpix 995.