Camera Porn (yes i know, what is in a name) posted about 6 Tips for Bulletproof Aquarium Photography

1. Start with a fast lens
2. Bump your iso
3. Stabilize your camera
4. Be patient
5. Don’t shoot the just the animals
6. Do the right thing in postprocessing

I would like to have read this post a few days earlier. Just last week i went to an aquarium and tried to get some good shots. I think i must have made about a 100 photographs, but of these only 2 or 3 were good enough to keep.

I currently own a good fast lens (the photographs were shot at f2.0), the big problem was stabilizing the camera. I find it quite hard to really keep you camera still when photographing. Especially in bad lighting conditions this immediately turned into longer shutter speeds and therefore bigger chance of blurred pictures.

The tip about the ISO is something i almost always forget. It is something i’ll have to be able to work with more frequently if i want to get anywhere in photographing in darker conditions.

Well, here are two pictures i liked out of the whole series. Let me know what you think in the comments