Marine Life from La Rochelle Aquarium, France

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Marine Life from La Rochelle Aquarium, France

Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:39 pm

Sigh. Just looking through my Aquarium photos from La Rochelle in France. Not all of them turned out aswell as I hoped. The LCD screen is so misleading at times. Images that I thought looked fairly sharp turning out fairly blurry. The only lense I could shoot with at the Aquarium was the 50MM 1.4. All the others weren't fast enough for the low light. Anyway I will have to go through and determine what are keepers are what aren't. Here is one that I think turned out reasonable sharp.

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Turtle.jpg">

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Walking Fish.jpg">

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Blue Fish 1.jpg">

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Blue Fish 2.jpg">

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Crab 1.jpg">

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Crab 2.jpg">

<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/Langoustine.jpg">
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Postby shutterbug on Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:46 pm

love aqua life images....have to bring my gear next time I go to sydney aquarium....
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Postby ozimax on Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:51 pm

Nice aquatic colours, we had one of these washed up on the beach two years ago, got the wildlife rescue people out to have a look at the critter, I think he was a bit sick, eventually he got back in the water, maybe he's the one now in the aquarium? Ozi
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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:01 pm

Added some more :)
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Postby Glen on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:33 pm

Kipper, I think those shots are as sharp as you could hope through photographing through 20mm glass and a column of water. Well done
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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:41 pm

Did I say that the 50MM 1.4 is one of my favorite lenses?

Glen, I agree these shots that I've put up are quite sharp. However out of 90 photos that I took, there aren't many more then these that I'd call sharp. I understand that the low light which requires a low shutter speed, and the 20MM thick perspex that they use doesn't help with image quality. I'll have to check my images to see what ISO I used. I think I either used 200 or 400. Should of probably tried something higher.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:57 pm

Nice shots, kipper.

Admin request, tho: resize your images for a maximum width of 800 pixels.
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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:28 pm

No problem, will do when I get home from work. Boss is here at the moment :)

Why 800 though, is it a KB size issue or because you have to scroll the page to view them?
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Postby robw25 on Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:43 pm

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i took some good shots at the perth underwater whatever its called and a few had that greenish colour through them and when i took it out i thought they looked better, your shots are good post some more
hope you didnt mind me touching up your pic

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Postby Glen on Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:48 pm

Kipper, 800 pixels is so everything fits on the page for normal monitors, and one doesn't have to scroll just to read a sentence

robw, like your work
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Postby brembo on Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:50 pm

A bit of both really. It stops you having to scroll sideways to see the image (and sometimes the image won't fit on a 1024x768 res screen), and also the file size being larger can make it slower for the dial up users.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:57 pm

kipper wrote:Why 800 though, is it a KB size issue or because you have to scroll the page to view them?


While download size isn't a major issue (remember, there are still some 56k'ers out there...), a lot of pages are still designed primarily for 800 x 600 monitors. While I won't argue that it's a bit odd for a machine to run on anything below 1024 x 768, you have to understand that even at 800 x 600, webpage width still can only hit a maximum of 720 pixels, and say if your monitor runs at a res of 1600 x 1200 and it's perfectly centered for you, it may be off the screen for others.

My suggestion is to use a max of 800 width as I doubt that anyone here is running below 1024 x 768 and 800 should allow for the clearance needed that the table spacing and form sections pages on this forum utilises.

If that made any sense. :)
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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:02 pm

I have a normal 21" monitor running 1600x1200. Doesn't everyone have one of these? :)
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:03 pm

Nice pics kipper - I like the first one in particular
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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:05 pm

Btw, I'll change the size of the image to 800 wide tonight. Not sure it will affect the image size if I retain the same quality. All of the images are < 200K bar one. Which I think is reasonable for broadband. I have ADSL 256K at home at the moment (downgraded while I was away to reduce costs).
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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:11 pm

Robw, let me know via a private messgae the settings you used to adjust the colors to remove the blue. I like the settings you used there.
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Postby xerubus on Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:12 pm

kipper wrote:Robw, let me know via a private messgae the settings you used to adjust the colors to remove the blue. I like the settings you used there.


... or you could post them so that others learn :D
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Postby dooda on Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:21 pm

ozimax wrote:Nice aquatic colours, we had one of these washed up on the beach two years ago, got the wildlife rescue people out to have a look at the critter, I think he was a bit sick, eventually he got back in the water, maybe he's the one now in the aquarium? Ozi


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Postby robw25 on Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:25 pm

i tried doing a tutorial but couldnt work out how do get a screen shot....

anyway its quite simply.... in photoshop cs go to image/adjustments/match colour then click the "equalise box" and thats it !!

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Postby kipper on Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:58 pm

Ok fixed size to 800w, adjusted colors to robw's instructions, fixed a broken link and added a few more images.
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