Fish picture

[Nidge]

Im an avid fish keeper and enjoy taking shots of them, This one I took of one of my Texas cichlids.
I didn't take note of the camera settings but I will in future, It was taken with a Fujifilm s7000 at max Quality. What do you guys think?

[ckozo]

over-all, i like it and think it's an interesting photo.

some thoughts that may improve it: crop-off much of the left, especially to remove the foreground green leaf which is a distraction, use PS to get some more sharpness to the fish as it seems a little soft to me and maybe play with the saturation of the fish.

i also think if the background was more out of focus, you would have had the fish pop-out a bit more.

hope this is useful, cheers!

[Lava Lamp]

Im an avid fish keeper and enjoy taking shots of them, This one I took of one of my Texas cichlids.
I didn't take note of the camera settings but I will in future, It was taken with a Fujifilm s7000 at max Quality. What do you guys think?

Like it. With high magnification shots of small objects (like fish) it helps if you use a small aperture setting. It will produce lots of detail.

[mikehulsebus]

I've taken photos of my own cichlids and know how hard it can be so lemme first say congrats on that. I think i'd like to see a little bit more of a profile shot of him though, not too much though

[cjsoap]

I have taken a few shots from my sisters saltwater tank, and I know that they are not so easy to get sometimes, always alot of movement and less co-operation. This is really a cute shot. I like it alot, it kind of gives you a little of his personality.
CJ

[Chunk]

Im an avid fish keeper and enjoy taking shots of them, This one I took of one of my Texas cichlids.
I didn't take note of the camera settings but I will in future, It was taken with a Fujifilm s7000 at max Quality. What do you guys think?

Nice shot of the fish.
Seems to have an overall yellow cast to me. I don't know how accurate these colors are, but it gives more seperation from the background. What colorbalance do you use?

[Elysian]

Your correction is really too red Chunk and still too saturated in my opinion.

[Chunk]

Your correction is really too red Chunk and still too saturated in my opinion.

You are right. I didn't mess with the saturation, just slid the color temp slider in PaintshopPro's color balance dialog box with the 'remove color cast' box checked. After reading your post I have to agree that it's better not as warm and desaturated some. Thanks Elysian.

[shutterman]

I like it because you can't really tell that it was in a fish tank at all. It would be nice to see the fish with more vibrant coloring, but this is really great shot for such a difficult setting!

[Nidge]

Thanks for all the reply's guys, Some of them are really helpfull. I have cropped it down a little and desaturated it a little also, Do you guys think its lacking colour a bit?