Little fish in a little world

Photography \ Nature | 06/28/07 @631 | OnPix-Artist | critiques (31) | views (739)

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Photo Date : 23/03/2007
Camera : Nikon D70s
Lens : 50mm AF f/1.4

This funny fish live in the big aquarium of my sister. For take this shot I have had use the manual focus, because the autofocus don't work well behind the glass. Is difficult use the manual focus with a short depth of field meanwhile the fish don't stop to move !

In the end I have work well with f/2, ISO 800 and time of 1/80.

I think that my D70s have do her best and have reward me with some lowly noise. See a detail of the fish in the additional download if you want.

As always... hope you like it !

EDIT:
I have add a cropped version in the additional downloads. Thanks to all for the calls and the precious councils.

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Comments (31)

yvy

06/28/07 @649

that's cute and i like it somehow. tho my eye is asking for tighter crop.

dakoo

06/28/07 @652

Very well done, must have been tricky !!!
I fear i will have to suggest the obvious ...
Crop to get the fish out of the center,
An ideal one would be croping out shadow area below & from the fish's tail at the left !!!

cupcake

06/28/07 @673

Great capture!
It looks great now.

Top Marks

Madanapale

06/28/07 @691

Very nice capture Diego!......agree about the placement of the fish....still good work!.....I know is difficult....I once took a lot of pictures fron an aquarium and couldn't get one right.
Carlos

Phos

06/28/07 @710

yes needs some cropping. -overall as is you have 'spots' in FG, BG, rock, and fish of course. so cropping to make him standout among all the other 'spots' would help. I can only imagine the challenge here you've taken on so really good effort!!
I have max 7points to vote w/

ogu

06/28/07 @727

I like it but finds the background little distracting. And some more cropping maybe

Azurite

06/28/07 @788

I like!

I totally dig the colours, and I appreciate your effort to get him in focus.

Just consider cropping as some people say.

ARZILLIER66

06/28/07 @865

Cool capture Diego!
I like the composition

killadore

06/28/07 @885

cute fish. agree with dakoo about the composition, but otherwise a quite cool pic. well done

Poohblah

06/29/07 @960

A tighter crop would improve the composition a lot. Also there seems to be a green cast to the photo.

danheacock

06/29/07 @990

Agree about the crop, I used to have one of these little catfish! Maybe more of a rule of thirds composition would be beneficial, hope this helps!

nelsondepaula

06/29/07 @070

Very nice little fish!

Mark7th

06/29/07 @228

I agree with dakoo.... you should crop it a little bit.... Nevertheless, the picture is amazing, I love the Depth of Field of the stones, and the colors!!! Very well done!! +9/9

OnPix-Artist

06/29/07 @433

Ok Ok guys... you have won !

Usually I don't like crop a lot my images, but this time you have right !
I want that my shots can be printed. I don't want show you an image that can't be printed in a good large format. When I crop an image I try to do it the less possible and preserve the original ratios. Maybe is an old habitude from my coolpix.

So... I have add in the additional download the cropped shot.
I have cut the leaf on the left that was distracting and the lower shadows.

Thanks to all for the comments !
Always good and constructive ... they help me a lot !

zaclab

06/29/07 @454

I just wanted to agree about cropping

It's so Much better now!
You should put cropped version on the main page

BillCorbett

06/29/07 @485

Very nicely done!

Madanapale

06/29/07 @592

Looks much better!....good work Diego!
Carlos

dakoo

06/29/07 @691

Oh yeah man now its looking cooler !!
Love the way the fish & stone, bg flow lead U in the middle of the picture !!!

Mark7th

06/29/07 @729

Exactly!! I agree with zaclab, put the cropped version on the main page!

OnPix-Artist

06/29/07 @851

Thanks guys !

I have decided to leave the original image in the main page....
don't wan't change for don't stultifying the first comments.

We have make a little story and I have improve a my shot thanks to you.

If anyone will want to see the cropped version will be in the additional download.

Thanks to all ^^

Shinue

06/29/07 @863

nice capture diego!

Daykan

06/29/07 @891

AMAZING!!

soheil

06/29/07 @930

very nice shot +10 ...

Poohblah

06/30/07 @106

cropped shot is much much better IMO.

moserArtist

06/30/07 @253

Funny, earlier on when I knew less on photography (not that I know much more but still

) I used to crop a lot.

Once you really get to know what composition you are aiming for you do less cropping imo.

Shooting with the fish in the center cause you have the focus there is maybe solved by using selective focus area in your camera (think you should have this feature). Then suddenly the need for cropping is less obvious.

For distant bird shots I can understand the need for cropping but in most cases it is an excuse for not having composed the shot well...

In your case the cropped version looks quite fine

aniocean

06/30/07 @608

Nice. Love that mood and the imagination.
8/8

blackshad

06/30/07 @636

cropped version is better, but the rocks looks a bit big then

nice picture overall

workster

07/01/07 @112

NIce photo - the fish almost looks like something out of a cartoon. I prefer the cropped version.
Don