Got a couple of new plecos, plus pics of the rest

paradise · Post by **paradise** » 17 Jul 2004, 02:40

Got two new plecos today, a Royal and a Gold Nugget, both about 3-4". So I took some pics of my 110g tank.

Royal Pleco

Gold Nugget Pleco

Scribble Pleco

Sailfin Pleco

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » 17 Jul 2004, 03:03

Outstanding Photography's!! Feed them chaps up though!!

Graeme.

paradise · Post by **paradise** » 17 Jul 2004, 03:04

Thanks man, it's the only thing I know how to do well

And, yes, they are pretty thin from the LFS

polkadot · Post by **polkadot** » 17 Jul 2004, 08:40

Excellent shots! You can easily count the no of teeth in the 2nd picture.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 17 Jul 2004, 09:01

Yes, excellent pics. If you would care to email a selection to webmaster@planetcatfish.com, I think many of them would find their way into the cat-elog - where credit is always given to contributing photographers.

Jools

paradise · Post by **paradise** » 17 Jul 2004, 18:37

Thanks guys, for the praise. I emailed the webmaster. BTW, if you like photography, you can check out a little place I run, APF (link in my profile/sig.)

Here are a couple of others:

Clown Loaches

Featherfin Catfish

Pictus Catfish

S. Allen · Post by **S. Allen** » 18 Jul 2004, 03:32

Wow... Those pics are incredible...

Jeff B. · Post by **Jeff B.** » 18 Jul 2004, 09:25

Indeed...very nice pics...

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 18 Jul 2004, 10:01

Hi!

Excellent pictures!!

What type of material do you use for such degree of quality?

Cheers
Yann

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 18 Jul 2004, 10:03

It's the field of focus that's so good - I've tried on and off for years to get that shot of a pictus and haven't even come close. As with Yann, I'd be interested to hear of kit, technique etc.

Nothing to do with the fact I hope to buy a new digicam in October...

Jools

paradise · Post by **paradise** » 19 Jul 2004, 20:08

He-he, thanks, guys. two versions

short one: check out APF, if you are serious about pics. We help 100s of fish people who want to take good pics. that is all we do.

long one: I use a Sony 717 ditigal cam. Standard equipment, no special lenses. All manual features, including, white balance, aperature, shutter speed. I have great lighting. On this particular tank (i have 8

), it's a JBJ Formosa 4x65w Compact flourescent daylight bulbs. almost 300 w of pure white daylight. Lets me use about 1/60 - 1/100 shutter speed, with ISO 100 (which makes it less grainy) and Flourescent white balance. Quick shutter speed is the key, it took me so long to get good pictus shots. If you look around this forum, I posted a whole session of the pictus shots a couple of months ago. check it out. I have a couple of new ones too. here they are: