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
Today In The Fishroom~11/29/11 P. managuense
An interesting angle you don't see often in a photo....thanks to lighting from below the photo tank.
I've always found it easy with this species to get this angle. I simply put my lens cap on the top of the tank.
I almost deleted this, but thought it was a pretty cool self portrait.
The best of the batch of photos IMHO.
Shot with the pair...female in the breeding area.
One more
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lovely shots mate,
i have a question, how do you get the colours to come out in your managuense? i have a pair and when i bought them they were nicely coloured, now they are very dark, im thinking its because i have a black back ground on my tank that they have darken to blend in, do you think this is why?
thanks
steve.
99% of the color and clarity of my photos comes from the amount of light I put on the subject. Any one of my flash units that I use can properly light a subject six meters away. I put three...sometimes four of them trained on an area either a third to a half meter in diameter.
This setting allows me to shoot at a very low ISO (100) a very high aperture (f22 - f36) and a very fast shutter speed (1/320th) This last most important for achieving the "black out" look in my photos. I place my lights both on top front and back and also below..adjusting to get different effects.
Fish are covered with scales...the scales are basically tiny little reflective plates...lots of light...I can't prove this as a fact, but that makes the most sense. I took photos of a Betta fish a while back. When you looked at it in the bag, it looked like a very pale ping with a grey body. When I "lit it up" this is what I got.
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lovely shots Mo
interesting reading aswell about how the flash units are positioned and how the camera is set etc. etc.
fairplay
have You any shots of any odd-ball fish ? (catfish or polypterus, knifefish etc. etc.)
Des
I do...but I also have shots of regular fish that I turn into oddballs in the computer.
I call this series "Silver Dahli"
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