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| Many people rely tremendously (okay, exclusively) on TTL
control... I don't and know several other photographers who "shoot
manual" for light control (setting aperture and exposure both)... how
do we "do it"? Practice, experience, a lot of wasted film and
processing... |
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| In actual practice it's better to slightly overexpose film
than to under-... Still, remember to bracket, keep shooting, change
lenses... and possibly film type/ISO. |
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| How long your shutter is withdrawn, exposing the film on the
plane. Important trade offs between: |
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| Again, trade offs... unless you're aiming for a dramatic
blurred effect, there is an optimum range of settings time-wise to expose
your film... Do check on issues like synchronization with your flash units
(some go to 1/250th... others not half that)... |
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| Huge variability... likened onto women's clothes sizes...
Umm, quality of premium ice creams?
25, 50.... 100, 200, maybe 400 for most all types of
shooting... but film ISO's do go to the 1000's... Give example uses for
various types, ISO's. Dark conditions, tank shots, slow lenses...
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| Mutually exclusive desires... fast films are grainier, not
as color rich... but able to stop action, be shot at a faster/shorter
exposure time, with less light... but suffer from a greater likelihood of
over-exposure...
Digital and analog fixes, techniques abound. ICE technology by
Nikon, Photoshop by Adobe... many more. |
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| For "whole tank" shots, faster films, tripods and
bulb releases or timers, outside lighting, longer timed exposures, faster
lenses of shorter focal length. |
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| Many small details go into producing consistently good
aquarium photographs. Here are some of my "other" ideas on
things to look out for... And a few notes on the money-making aspects of
this interest, as well as getting help. |
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| New fish stores, holding facilities, public aquariums, tank
tours where everyone has carefully scrubbed their tanks down in advance...
are what you want. Fine scratches, water marks, dissolved color are not
the photographer's friends.
Try to arrange "after hours" times when outside lighting can
be turned off or down at least. |
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| You want the absolute least distance between you and the
subject... to the point where you mal-influence the animals behavior. |
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| When you think of a handsome paradigm: is it me or Selleck?
How can you tell?
Reference works... personal experience... interrator agreement.
Post photographic fixes... |
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| Must need be able to differentiate the subject
from its setting, background... think, look for these opportunities ahead
of pushing the shutter release. Example of Hans Joachim Richter, paper
covered tanks, cut out, lift panel... where he planned of photographing
subjects. |
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