Macro photography by HeavyD

[Heavyd]

The lens is an absolute pleasure to use. Can really feel the difference in the lens quality over the twin lens kit that I bought with the camera.

[SUSS8]

Awesome photos mate, they look really good

[Loach]

Wow looks so vibrant and golden! Love these shots, keep the, coming :)

[Jess]

I love the colour in those yellows, great work on the selective breeding! And great work on the photos too, of course ;)

[Heavyd]

Some more macro shots. I've decided that taking shots on a curved glass tank (Aqua One Ar620T) is no fun. Creates some weird distortions and reflections.

Anyway here you go and as always, criticisms welcome:

The Crystal black

The cheeky chocolate cherry

Just like a chocolate milkshake......

Crytal Black

Crystal black

I found one of my yellow cherry's with some nice green hue(selective breeding project if I can find a mate for her!)

Wishful thinking!!!! lol

[NoGi]

Very nice. Can we use shots of the choc cherries in the library?

[Heavyd]

Thanks. Please feel free to use the photo's.

[Trav80]

When I saw that Green shrimp my eyes popped out of my head, then I saw the line above it :(

Can't wait for the Emerald Green shrimp (caridina babaulti cf green) to appear :)

Great Macros :)

[Heavyd]

I took a few more shots this afternoon. They aren't by best photos, but I did take them free hand and the tank does have slightly curved glass. Couldn't quite seem to nail the focus. I found it hard to keep my hands still enough without dropping away from the focus on the eyes.

Red Cherry Shrimp

Baby bristlenose (2cm)

Panda corydoras

Harlequin rasbora

[rosiedosie]

Your photo's are amazing! I am so jealous and wish I could afford a macro lens :( one day maybe

[Neo-shrimp]

Absolutely breath-taking shots Heavyd...Keep practising (wink wink) and post some more shots mate..

[Heavyd]

Well here are some more shots. What else do you do on a crappy, rainy day. The focus today was on the native Darwin Algae shrimp and a couple of shots of my peppermint catfish. Enjoy.....

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[Dean]

beautiful pics mate.

i have a question... :)

in all your marco shots you get a large area of focus, how do you get such a large area in focus???????

is it a setting on the camera or do you take a pic not zoomed in so close and then blow up the pic?

also that last pic is very cool indeed :encouragement:

[CNgo2006]

Great effort there Doron and great effort from your rasbora as well! LOL! I remember someone posting looking for a wedding photographer?

[Heavyd]

Thanks mate. I get the lense as close to the subject as possible, so with the lens hood on, I'm pretty much touching the glass. To increase the depth of field, you need to increase your aperture setting or F-stop value. I work on a minimum of 11 usually. The lower the value the shallower your depth of field will be. Shutter speed is usually 150th-200th/second. ISO is 200-400. I also do crop a lot of my shots to get a better composition.

I'm not sure if that is helpful or not?

[Heavyd]

Thanks Chi, but I don't do people lol

[Dean]

cheers mate, yes it is helpful :) it is what someone else told me also..

now i just need to keep reading and learning what aperture shutter speed & ISO are and how to change them lol

[Heavyd]

I'm no expert, but happy to help out where I can. Any questions feel free to ask.

[ineke]

Fantastic the detail is so crisp and clear!!

[Brado]

gorgeous pics mate well done

[Gbang]

Awww man!!! Heavy!!! Those pics are awesome!!! Keep up the good work mate

[CNgo2006]

My phone pics are better, I bet you cant get the blurry out of focus effect like I can!

[Heavyd]

Thanks for the great comments.

And Chi, you crack me up! It takes a certain knack to get blurry photos and even include the odd thumb in the frame lol.

[NoGi]

Great shots mate. I've been so slack with my macro shots lately.

[CNgo2006]

Thanks for the great comments.

And Chi' date=' you crack me up! It takes a certain knack to get blurry photos and even include the odd thumb in the frame lol.[/quote']

Maybe I should go for that wedding photo job? Bring my trusty camera phone with me...You'll probably never hear from me again after the groom gets through with me LOL!