First try at photography

[68Wreefer]

Just bought a camera yesterday on a whim. Don't have a macro lense yet but looking forward to figuring this all out as I've never used a camera not on my phone. Here are my first attempts

(well I also a couple hundred bad photos)

 

[maroun.c]

Great start,
Suggest to check out photo threads on the forum, get to see interesting composition, different framing....
Also do read the photography articles in the stickies part of the photography forum for a basic explanation of aquarium photography basics like white balance, aperture and ******* speed....
Do post pictures so others can advise on things to improve.

 

[SuncrestReef]

Reef2Reef has a whole sub-forum dedicated to reef photography and has a lot of great info. Start here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/your-guide-to-aquarium-photography-1-getting-the-basics.310349/

Here's one of my favorite shots from my tank:

 

[sawdonkey]

First step...turn down those blue lights before shooting! Then adjust you
white balance to take out even more blue until your corals look like they do to your naked eye.

if you want to play around with macro shots with out the big expense, look into extension tubes. They’re cheap and for me, good enough. I’m sure real photographers would cringe at that suggestion, but I’m salisfied with my shots with them. Yes, an $800 macro lens would take better pics.

There are people here that take way better photos than me, but I just leaned be trial and error taking thousands of pics.

 

[Dcal]

Awesome!

 

[najer]

Nice start.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Great photos!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Which camera did you get?

 

[d2mini]

Pretty good for first attempts!
Definitely check out the photography forum as mentioned above.
And to get the most out of that camera, learn how to use the manual controls, especially your white balance settings.
You can also experiment with shooting through some colored filters to help filter out the excess blues.

When you are ready for a macro lens, I always recommend the Tamron 90mm, available for canon and nikon. Best value in a macro IMO.

https://amzn.to/37oEq2H

 

[68Wreefer]

Which camera did you get?

I got a cannon rebel t6. Like I said I don't really know anything about photography but I got an opportunity to get one really cheep so I figured "what the heck. Why not?". Is this at least a half decent camera? I read it's a good beginners camera but will be outgrown very fast. Obviously the articles I was looking at weren't geared towards coral photography though. Any thoughts on this specific camera if you know anything about it?

 

[68Wreefer]

First step...turn down those blue lights before shooting! Then adjust you
white balance to take out even more blue until your corals look like they do to your naked eye.

if you want to play around with macro shots with out the big expense, look into extension tubes. They’re cheap and for me, good enough. I’m sure real photographers would cringe at that suggestion, but I’m salisfied with my shots with them. Yes, an $800 macro lens would take better pics.

There are people here that take way better photos than me, but I just leaned be trial and error taking thousands of pics.

I'll definitely have to look into those extension tubes! I appreciate the advice.

 

[68Wreefer]

Reef2Reef has a whole sub-forum dedicated to reef photography and has a lot of great info. Start here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/your-guide-to-aquarium-photography-1-getting-the-basics.310349/

Here's one of my favorite shots from my tank:

Wow that is beautiful! Thanks for the link. There was definitely a lot for me to start working on in there. It helps to know where to start.