Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
looking for photography tips.
crap it seems like we have serious camera buff's here i'll be goosed when it comes to competing with some of ye, i'm a point and shoot and hope for the best kinda guy... i guess i'll just have to r.t.f.m. (read the #*$^ing manual)
+1 on that shea
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
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I like analogies, and going back to my early student days, I asked our lecturer if he preferred the project typed (yes....that would have been on a typewriter) or hand written?
His reply said it all....."Sh#t on a silver platter is still Sh#t !!"
Now for one simply non-technical tip:
simply take as many pictures as possible of the same scene......
Maybe then start to use different settings on the camera.....and experiment.
look at them, and delete the ones that are crap. Digital shots costs no more than a micro-cent per pic on battery recharge costs.
Second non-technical tip is to know the limits of the camera, and shot within those limits:
if your camera doesn't do Macro, then don't attempt Macro Shots;
if your camera will not allow you to switch off the flash in low light, then change the angle at which you fire the camera to avoid reflections.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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@Ian: That’s a very good teaching method!
About a potential gallery; it would be nice to have anyway but I don’t think it has to have specific sections based on eq.. The label of the image could just state what equipment was used.
@Jambomac: I agree with the part about that preferences could probably influence the voting. At the end of the day people like images for different reasons. I think that the more photographs you take yourself the more you start to appreciate the photographs rather than a rare fish/coral etc..
A really good photo of a dramatic subject like an Arowana breaking the surface is probably more appealing than a really good photo of a goldfish breaking the surface but a better quality photo of a goldfish compared to a slightly less good one of an Arowana will get my vote any day.
I'm rambling now....
Melander
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I have come full circle with the whole learning how to photograph fish thing.I tried every bit of advice from this thread and have gone through every option on the camera which is a samsungES70 12.2 mega pixels X5 zoom.And after all this i have come to one conclusion.... wait for it..... the camera knows best. Yep thats right the auto settings on the camera will take just as good a photo as any option or setting or variation of settings i can put together.No need to remember settings for different shots just click the auto button and ofc turn off the flash and bobs your uncle.
This is one i took after about 2 hours of messing around with the settings.
This is one from the auto settings.
Let me know what you guys think.
Cheers Stuart.
Ps i did find one interesting setting though, you can set the camera to take the picture only when people smile.so does anyone know any good fish joke's.
Multi tasking: Screwing up more than one thing at a time.
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My Fish Has no Nose.
How does it smell? Ruddy awful. Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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