Photo/s of the day. Aquarium of Western Australia - part two.

[moonvoice]

It is a Saturday morning,
I think we're watching TV and not doing very much.
Yesterday we stumbled onto a 'Wellness Expo' at Hillarys.
People were promising to get people quitting smoking in 60 minutes.
With kinesiology.
I call bullshit. (Not that I have a problem with kinesiology; just with bullshit)







More jellyfish.









Leafy Seadragons.





We were told that the octopus was being 'unusual active,' I was happy with this bit of synchronicity, since an octopus will be in my latest Wandsuna illustration. So I took a lot of pictures.

























A very bad shot of about five seahorses.





Stonefish.





Glen and Putu being noodles outside.





Scorpionfish

Comments

[skyfiery]

Wow. How do you get such clear shots? I've never been able to do that with shooting into aquariums - they make me dizzy. Lol.

The jellyfish are awesome. =D

[moonvoice]

A steady hand (I don't have a tripod, I DO have a very steady hand!), no flash, wider focus on my macro lens (55mm), and tweaking the motion setting a little. I alternated between manual and auto-focus, depending on what I was taking photos of. In the cases of the fish, I sometimes moved as slowly as they were moving, or matched the camera to their movement; that way the photo looks like a non-moving fish in focus, instead of a moving fish that's blurring past the camera. That was hard to do though, and only worked in some cases (the scorpionfish, mostly).

But that being said, I didn't even try to photograph some of the exhibits (like the aquarium walkthrough tunnel where the loggerhead turtles and sharks were), there was just never enough light.

[skyfiery]

I agree about the lack of light being a problem. And, I have to say that I am amazed at how steady your hands.

[moonvoice]

Lack of light was the worst problem. Though I was surprised at the photos that did turn out - the jellyfish was an extremely dark exhibit, and the octopus one was as well. I probably too twice as many photos as actually turned out (or maybe even three times as many), but I was shocked to really get anything at all.

There were two more jellyfish exhibits - and nothing turned out in those. It's a hard place to take photos, and I noticed there weren't many other people there even bothering.

[silverjackal]

I particularly like the leafy sea dragons and the rays out of these. And the scorpionfish. (Always, they're another fish I'm fond of through having worked with them a bit. Provided you're careful with them they actually show personality and can be "worked" in the aquarium so you can clean etc. around them and not worry about being nailed with the spines.)

[clare_dragonfly]

These are all great pictures but the jellyfish are especially glorious. It's like, can these even be real? They're incredible.

[spider_fox]

Lol @ stonefish's face. He's all ]:C

[ariestess]

Leafies!!! LOOOOOOVE those!

[red_trillium]

Yay for more sharing of aquarium shots! I can imagine the fun you'll have drawing the octopus!

[goddess_incarnate]

Ah! I love marine life! This is so amazing!!

Seahorses, sea dragons, octopus!! ^___^ The water looks so blue and beautiful!

[endlessbees]

I really enjoyed your photos! particularly of the octopus; every time I head to an aquarium they're unsually INactive. I find aquariums quite soothing (as long as there aren't groups of screaming schoolchildren around...).

That last one of the octopus (closely followed by 'photo of the day' moon jellies post) is probably my facourite. :)