Any Tips on taking pics of your reef?

[Ram_Puppy]

some of you guys are taking some pretty jaw dropping pictures of your tanks, was wondering if you could share any tips?

I just got a Nikon Coolpix 4300, sadly, barely out of the box a defect showed up and it is on it's way to nikon usa for a warranty fix. (GRRR, I have always used nikons, owned ten of them and love the cameras, this really hacked me off.) any how... when I get it back I am planning on shooting some pics.. I have some corals I would like to show you, and a couple I would like to get a positive id on.

I would assume the basic tips are known:


Take your pictures at an angle to the glass to minimize reflection
Use a tripod if you have one
Make sure the glass is clean on both sides


My first shots before the camera went south with it's system error, were fuzzy, or green, green because I turned off the flash, or fuzzy because I was taking pics of softies that were moving pretty rapidly. I didn't have a lot of time to 'settle' into the camera, so I am sure there are features galore for me to take advantage of.

Thanks.

[brewercm]

First off you got an excellent camera for taking that type of pictures. Nikon has one of the best macro modes out there. That sucks that the selling store wouldn't replace it if it was basically new.

Practice with differenct iso settings and color temps with it in macro mode and you'll get it down.
Nice thing about digital, it may take me 30 shots to get a couple of good ones but the rest just get deleted without wasting film.

[Ram_Puppy]

I got the camera of newegg.com, so I was going to end up shipping it back regardless... (it is actually a really good deal, 330 for the camera, 50 dollar rebate, free shipping. Nikon makes excellent cameras, i am sure this was just a blip) anyhow, newegg states on the site before you buy that they won't accept returns on digital cameras... for a while, I thought I might just find a local store and pull a switcheroo... but I decided against it, cameras on its way and Nikon says usual turn around time is 7 days, I can deal with that.