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Postby ATJ on Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:51 pm

I keep marine aquaria which include live corals. To many people's surprise (including other aquarists), corals are predators, feeding on zooplankton at night. To demonstrate this to my fellow aquarists, I shot some time lapse photographs of some of my corals feeding and I thought the folks here might be interested (from a photographic perspective). Note that these were sort of rushed, and I believe I could get better exposure.

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Trachyphyllia
Fungia

and the outtake:
Outtake

There are a lot of images in these at around 50K per image so best not to try on dialup and allow plenty of time for the images to be preloaded before playing.
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:53 pm

Absolutely fascinating :D
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Postby big pix on Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:58 pm

Fantastic work and very very interesting ......... keep posting

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Postby MCWB on Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:27 am

Wow, that's awesome, nice work! Great use of time-lapse!

P.S. Your avatar freaks me out with the blinking! :shock:
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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:41 am

I second the creepy factor with the avatar...

That's some funky time lapse...after watching the coral feeding I became queasy tho.
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Postby Geoff on Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:03 am

Very cool ATJ...nice piece of software too that enables you to create this loop of time-lapse photography! Keep up the great work and post more! :)
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Postby MATT on Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:31 am

The coral feed ing is very interesting.

Good capture and well presented.


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Postby BBJ on Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:55 am

Interesting and well done, ATJ that was all worthwhile i would say you have captured the moments and is all about experimenting.
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Postby ATJ on Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:09 am

Thanks for the responses.

It's actually very easy to do using Nikon Capture. I batch processed all the images (mainly resize, a little bit of contrast tweaking and the addition of the copyright text) with PaintShopPro. Now that I have the JavaScript code to control the display of the images, the longest part of making a series available for display is the uploading.

Here are a couple of other photographs of corals that you might find interesting. The show fluorescent pigments that the corals have.

Fluorescence

Each pair is two photographs of the same coral; one taken under normal lighting and the other using filters on the flash and camera lens. The filter on the flash only lets short wavelength light through and the one on the lens lets longer wavelength light through. None (well, very little because it isn't perfect) of the light from the flash can make it to the lens through normal reflection so you only pick up fluorescence.
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Postby huynhie on Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:24 am

Fantastic site ATJ :wink:

I hate to see your electricity bill :shock:
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Postby Oneputt on Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:44 am

Very interesting work.
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Postby Geoff on Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:11 pm

That's all well and good ATJ, u know I love the time lapse stuff, but your blinking is freaking me out :shock:
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Postby Glen on Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:17 pm

Very impressive, great use of time lapse photography
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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:20 pm

Thought I just had about the blinking...it'd be funky if you had one eye blink then the another.... :shock:
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Postby MCWB on Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:26 pm

ATJ wrote:Each pair is two photographs of the same coral; one taken under normal lighting and the other using filters on the flash and camera lens. The filter on the flash only lets short wavelength light through and the one on the lens lets longer wavelength light through. None (well, very little because it isn't perfect) of the light from the flash can make it to the lens through normal reflection so you only pick up fluorescence.

Now that is a clever technique, and the results are spectacular! Awesome work! :)
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Postby mic on Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:18 pm

Great stuff !

Amazing.

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Postby marcotrov on Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:48 pm

Clever work great images.
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Postby Finno on Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:16 pm

Excellent results, great to see the pocillporin and other pigments in these corals.
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Postby Mal on Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:29 pm

Nice work... Love the outtake. Maybe I could set up something like this to see what is happening to beer in the fridge :)
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Postby HappyFotographer on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:27 am

I can't get these images to display, have they gone already?

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Postby Heath Bennett on Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:48 am

very cool. outtake is fun - so the fish stole it... only problem is i couldn't sport where the food was... :(
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