Trying a dedicated thread to discuss using a camera to capture our hobby and professional interests. Feel free to add any camera shooting subject but please remember to title the post.
At this stage of my learning curve the information I am most interested in trying to establish is the ISO, F-stop and white balance for shooting the tanks that will give me the least grain and the closest true color.
In 2002, photographer Kent Treptow first picked up a $10 two-gallon aquarium, a hand-held light, and his camera and headed to Newport Beach’s rocky tidepools to capture the sea creatures there.
But as photo shoots go, sea cucumbers, sea slugs and octopi were not the most cooperative of subjects. For one thing, try getting a good shot when your subject is the size of your pinky nail, Treptow said. There was the octopus that kept climbing out of the tank. And the many critters that hid under the plastic sheet, skittering away as he adjusted the light.
“It’s just ridiculous watching this grown man on his hands and knees trying to get this slug to turn the right way,” Treptow said.
After seeing his photos, the city of Newport Beach hired Treptow to snap portraits of life in the tidepools and intertidal areas for a traveling exhibit, a sort of moving aquarium called the Interactive Sealife Outreach pod or ISOpod, designed to teach beachgoers how to properly interact with their ecosystem. So this past year, Treptow scaled up the project. ...