Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Here is a pic I took last night.

I have posted two copies, 1 is the full pic, the other is cropped until it got small enough to post. That one is the actual pixels my Camera took. It was a Canon G3, macro mode, manual focus, no flash, whitness was set on flourescent.

What do you all think? is there anything else I can do to get it clearer?

I am looking for the Fine detail I see in some of your pics.

Thanks

Bryan

 

[Anonymous]

Oh, and by the way, that hermit is less than 1/2" long

Bryan

 

[Anonymous]

One thing you might try is putting your camera on a tripod and using the timer feature. Any little movement with a macro closeup will really show up. I use this method with my G1.

 

[Anonymous]

My Camera came with this wireless remote. I really think it was an excellent buy. I have put a tripod on my christmas wish list.

I actually sat the camera on a book, and then tilted it so it was focused on the crab. Not the best way, but better than holding it by hand.

I am wondering more about the other camera settings. shutter speed etc

is it possible to take that pic and get the crab to show clearer?

Oh, I for got to turn off the circulation in the tank while I took the picture

Bryan

 

[Anonymous]

Here is another one.

Some of this is clear, some not. was in a rush as the crabs were in that position for all of 5 seconds

Bryan

 

[Anonymous]

knuck, I'm not qualified to answer this question, sorry! Len & John are the pros. But if you increase the aperature size, doesn't that increase your depth of field? Seems like if you could get a bigger DOF more of it would come in clearer.

Have you tried it in autofocus?

 

[Anonymous]

Usually it's the tank walls that screw you up. I can never get good shots of my crabs for some reason (jeez that would sound bad out of context!). HD is almost right about the DOF control. The larger the aperture setting number (F5, F8, etc.), the smaller the actual opening in the camera is, and the deeper your DOF. So he had the right idea.

You could try working the photo in your image editor a bit more. Here are some general steps that I follow for almost all my shots:

1. Adjust brightness and contrast to make the colors a bit deeper
2. Adjust colors...for tank shots I usually end up adding blue, decreasing green, and adding red.
3. Adjust saturation. My camera tends to take shots that are a bit washed out, so I almost always have to boost the saturation a little bit. Note that if you really up the sat., you'll end up losing some detail clarity.
4. For shots that are at all blurry, you can try increasing sharpness. If your image editor has the 'unsharp mask' function, that tends to work best. Just play with the settings...that's what I do. Note that if you increase sharpness too much, your shots will take on a 'fake' appearance and you'll end up with jpeg blocking and image noise.

 

[Anonymous]

Usually it's the tank walls that screw you up. I can never get good shots of my crabs for some reason (jeez that would sound bad out of context!). HD is almost right about the DOF control. The larger the aperture setting number (F5, F8, etc.), the smaller the actual opening in the camera is, and the deeper your DOF. So he had the right idea.

You could try working the photo in your image editor a bit more. Here are some general steps that I follow for almost all my shots:

1. Adjust brightness and contrast to make the colors a bit deeper
2. Adjust colors...for tank shots I usually end up adding blue, decreasing green, and adding red.
3. Adjust saturation. My camera tends to take shots that are a bit washed out, so I almost always have to boost the saturation a little bit. Note that if you really up the sat., you'll end up losing some detail clarity.
4. For shots that are at all blurry, you can try increasing sharpness. If your image editor has the 'unsharp mask' function, that tends to work best. Just play with the settings...that's what I do. Note that if you increase sharpness too much, your shots will take on a 'fake' appearance and you'll end up with jpeg blocking and image noise.

Good advice, John. I'm finding that I am doing the same things you just mentioned.