Jellies from Monterey Bay (12 photos!)

[aztbs]

I posted earlier about what Canon lens to buy (my Xti) for my trip to Monterey Bay. I ended up getting the 50mm 1.4 and it was perfect! It lived on my camera almost the entire time.

The best thing about the Monterey Aquarium is their jellyfish. I think I was the only person in those exhibits taking pictures with no flash. Definitely the most cameras were found in that section of the whole place.

Here's the shots I got, there are a lot of them:


http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/01.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/02.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/03.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/04.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/05.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/06.jpg

[aztbs]

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/07.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/08.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/09.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/10.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/11.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/12.jpg

[xxxbadfishxxx]

sweet. Really like 2 & 5. What settings were you using?

[aztbs]

Shots were either all manual or Aperture Priority mode, all hand held.

#2 - 1/60 sec, F/2.5, 50mm, ISO 800

#5 - 1/30 sec, F/4, 50mm, ISO 800

The jelly tanks have unusual lighting, and sometimes the subject you are shooting moves perfectly into a spotlight. I hate using a flash on scratched up public tanks!

[redline]

those are nice shots.. here's a picture i took while at the long beach aquarium back when they had their jellyfish exhibit.

http://www.hoopshots.tv/lba2.jpg

[lowincwrx]

Great pics. i hope you don't mind me using some as my background

[aztbs]

I don't mind that, but they aren't that high res.

[edwing206]

Great shots there. I really like 3 and 5 of your second post.
Did you get any other pictures in? Or just jellies?

[aztbs]

The jellies were my favorites. The rest of the tanks were very tough to shoot. Too many people, very dark lighting, scratched up tanks, etc. Here's a few of the others that worked out:

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/13.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/14.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/15.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/16.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/17.jpg

http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/Monterey0308/18.jpg

[edwing206]

Those cold water tanks are cool. I gotta take my camera over to the Seattle Aquarium and see if I can get halfway decent shots.

[gman0526]

aztbs, nice captures, those jellies are not easy to keep in focus in those low light tanks. And composition is dead on too. Good job!!

[don nemo]

wow!! excelent pictures!!

[shakanoi]

I love that aquariium. Its cute how the put frames around the jellies.

[chevy69002000]

awesome pics

[KellyPug]

#5 almost looks like a painting.

Very nice. Hopefully I'll be able to take those one day ^^