Comments on: Monterey, Aquarium http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2008/02/27/monterey-aquarium/ Photography in Small Doses Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jim http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2008/02/27/monterey-aquarium/#comment-1149 Jim Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:57:47 +0000 http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2008/02/27/monterey-aquarium/#comment-1149 I love the jellyfish there. Did you manage to get any decent up-close shots of the moon jellies without using a flash? Those things continue to confound me because they have no well-defined edges for autofocus to work on and they move just a little too fast for the amount of light in the display to provide for a good shutter/aperture setting. I've gotten at least one nice shot of a blue jelly there that's worthy of display (imho): http://gallery.jimbala.net/popular/1/110335420_GGvXL#110335420_GGvXL-XL-LB Hand-held with an EOS 10D/17-40mm lens, through several inches of curved plexiglas. I won't tell you how many other shots of the same exhibit got deleted. ;-) I love the jellyfish there. Did you manage to get any decent up-close shots of the moon jellies without using a flash? Those things continue to confound me because they have no well-defined edges for autofocus to work on and they move just a little too fast for the amount of light in the display to provide for a good shutter/aperture setting.

I’ve gotten at least one nice shot of a blue jelly there that’s worthy of display (imho):
http://gallery.jimbala.net/popular/1/110335420_GGvXL#110335420_GGvXL-XL-LB

Hand-held with an EOS 10D/17-40mm lens, through several inches of curved plexiglas. I won’t tell you how many other shots of the same exhibit got deleted. ;-)

]]> By: Anne Copeland (Annie) http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2008/02/27/monterey-aquarium/#comment-1188 Anne Copeland (Annie) Sat, 17 May 2008 04:39:43 +0000 http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2008/02/27/monterey-aquarium/#comment-1188 Hi, I really love your beautiful photography, and I looked up something about positive/negative for an art quilt Yahoo group where we are studying art principles and came to your site, and it was one of the best discussions I have found so I provided a link to your site. I tried to comment on that page, but the choice of letter in the alphabet challenge wouldn't work, so I couldn't write about it there. I do really appreciate your excellent work and your writing as well. Thank you so much. Peace and many blessings, Annie Hi, I really love your beautiful photography, and I looked up something about positive/negative for an art quilt Yahoo group where we are studying art principles and came to your site, and it was one of the best discussions I have found so I provided a link to your site. I tried to comment on that page, but the choice of letter in the alphabet challenge wouldn’t work, so I couldn’t write about it there. I do really appreciate your excellent work and your writing as well. Thank you so much. Peace and many blessings, Annie

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