new camera = better pics
 

The wife and some family members pitched in and got me a new camera for x-mas, its a Cannon powershot SD790 IS
(thank you all!)
So this is still a point and shoot, but there are lots of settings to play with the color, which can make some colors on the corals misleading, so I tried to capture the natural color I see when I look at the corals, the first two pics of the same coral will show you what im talking about, small setting changes can make drastic difference in color.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...asuperblue.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...nanapurple.jpg
This one being more true to the eye

Full lighting
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...x/IMG_0263.jpg

actinic only
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...x/IMG_0339.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ngreenacro.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...lnofeeders.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...gancloseup.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...aupclose-1.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ecloseup-1.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...dragoneyes.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...mcloseup-1.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...supclose-1.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...oascloseup.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...agreenzoas.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ushupclose.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...olyupclose.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ilspotshot.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...anmushroom.jpg

and for fun...
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...omuchcolor.jpg

Wow, that scoly seems to have adapted well. Also cant believe the growth on your Christmas favia. Your tank has sure come a long way. Very nice.

that camera catches the colors that are very true to the real thing. you gota love the macro to i bet! :) we to got a new camera just yesterday and the wife told me not to play with it yet. we got a digital camcorder so we could get movies that are in HD of our family. sony HDR-CX12 Handycam is the one we got. i cant wait to play with it! it does movies in true HD and takes 10.2 megapixle photos too......again i cant wait!!!

Beautiful Brian, good job!

I just ordered the cannon sd1100 2 minutes before logging onto this site. I hope it takes as good of pictures as your new camera does.
Your tank looks awesome !

Awesome pics. Please tell us your technique for getting such good macro shots.

Love your tank and the pictures! The GPS really looks good on the sandbed like that

nice - pics and husbandry - your corals/tank really looks nice and healthy

and the actinic shot is really nice - i still can't take a desent actinic pic

I always struggled getting the true color of the corals to show up on the pics, especially the actinics too.

Im no photographer, so I don't even really know what I was doing, I just play with the settings and see how the pic turns out, I probably took 200 to get the 20 nice shots you see. And my friend Mike took some and showed a few things it does. But then again this camera is new to me, once I get it down I won't waste as much film.

thankx for the complements everybody.

Wow very nice Bri! the picts and your tank.
I HAVE to have some of those pink spekled zoa's.

I have that superman shroom. I got mine from cherry corals and the pict looked like yours but my shroom is'nt as red.

kass

Very nice! I guess we can expect nothing but high quality pics from you from now on. Your tank looks even cleaner than mine. Good job!

Very nice, Bri. Tank looks great!

Nice pics Bri. Makes me want to learn the ins and out of my camera even more now.

Thank you all very much, it means a lot to me.

Great pics! I have the A710 IS, and bought an underwater housing for it to get some close-ups. Were yours taken with a housing, or a light box, or just through the glass?

Some through the glass, and some are top down shots, but no housing (they want like $150 just for the water proof case!)

Tripod for the shots I could.

Yeah, the case was $250, but I used it scuba diving too, and needed something rated to 100'+. It makes the colors pop even brighter not having to deal with the glass or surface...it is hard to tell with yours though!! Great pics for through the glass and top down!

the underwater housing for my camera costs over 2 grand :-(

Anyone here using the Olympus 1030SW? I heard those take pretty decent underwater pics and are under $300 now

ouch, I bet it is a lot fancier than mine though...pics turned OK, it is fairly basic, and pics had a blue hue when below about 30'. Works like a charm for the tank though!