It all depends how physically far away you are from the subject. I used a tamron 90mm on a cropped sensor camera for these pics and the only difference is how physically far away I am.
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It all depends how physically far away you are from the subject. I used a tamron 90mm on a cropped sensor camera for these pics and the only difference is how physically far away I am.
I don't remember exactly how close I was but as close as the lens let's you go and still get in focus. The top picture was taking in a very shallow frag tank which I can get as close as I would of liked.Beautiful shots. Regardless of how far away these images are, your focus is spot on which seems to be what my first problem is. Can you tell me about how far away you were from these two corals so I have a frame of reference? And I assume that first image was then cropped in post?
Given that we're shooting with the same lens and I have a full frame sensor, my equipment should be able to capture images as crisp as this assuming I am using them correctly.
The porthole will help get better pics. I use it for all my pics.Ah, ok. So that was a top down shot. Thanks for sharing as seeing images like yours that were taken with the same equipment (albeit loads more experience) is encouraging.
My tank is only 12" deep (waterbox frag 80) but I ordered a porthole anyway just to see what I can do with top down shots up close.
The crop sensor makes a difference in close work. 90 x 1.5 = 135mm equivalent.
It all depends how physically far away you are from the subject. I used a tamron 90mm on a cropped sensor camera for these pics and the only difference is how physically far away I am.
I spent some more time this evening playing with the camera, shooting in the f/11-14 range as suggested, and this time shot in RAW and touched them up in lightroom a bit. I feel like I do see a marked improvement so I will keep going down this path and trying to hone my technique.