NOV 08: EA Photo - Mighty Macro
 

LET'S SEE SOME MACROS, THE CLOSER THE BETTER!


Requested, but not required, members should post info about their picture. This could include a picture title and camera specs.

Always stay fresh, always post new pictures :wink:




Only the first 20 entries will be used, so do not delay.Entries will be accepted until NOV 23rd, 2008.

Post entries here, if you cannot post your picture please email it to me (sphelps@sasktel.net) and I will post it for you.

Good Luck!!

The winner will be determined by you, the voters, and the winner will receive a framed picture.



Contest Rules are as follows:

1) You must follow the guidelines given for each contest

2) ALL members including vendors can enter, I just ask that the picture is from a personal or display tank, not store stock.

3) As long as YOU take the picture and it fits the guidelines you can enter it, I don’t care whose tank it’s from

4) First come, first serve up to 20. But do not hesitate to continue posting pictures if 20 were already posted.

5) Each can post as many pictures as they want, but only ONE can be entered. Please specify which one when posting multiple pictures or I will choose for you.

6) Have Fun!

My mantis is in my `fuge with my macro. Sometimes he comes out of his rock and crawls around on it. Does the picture have to be of just macro or can my mantis be in the photo as well? Just curious thanks, Laurie

Laurie, he means a macro shot (close-up). Not macro algae.

:redface::lol: I knew it was to early to be awake!

DST will do that to ya. Thank God for coffee.:biggrin:

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...ristlecopy.jpg


Ahhh... the mighty bristleworm lol....

Taken with a Nikon D40 ...using random settings (my settings are always random lol) and the background was darkened a little with photoshop. (There were a couple of specks and pods on the glass taking your eye away from the main subject)

Hope you like - I was going for "simple" :)

Yes very nice and artistic, I like it.

Here's a couple of macro-esque shots.
 

A.Granulosa & A.Rosaria togetherness
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...sariamacro.jpg

Acropora loripes
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...005loripes.jpg

Im changing mine again. ha
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...Lap/90g051.jpg


Canon Powershot in macro mode....

Entry for Canuckgod420
 

GREAT pic......what is he?

its a dragonhead goby
the pic is from my tank taken with my nikon d40.
A very cool fish, its very active and he hangs out under my anemone.......

Might he be called anything else? I googled dragon head goby and all I get is dragon goby. He is DEFINITELY not that. lol

take a look at the pink and blue spot goby - is that what he may also be called?

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k...DSC_0027-2.jpg


D 40X some sorta nikkor macro lens

I love it!! He looks like a fraggle :)

haha I wish it was a fraggle:mrgreen:

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...OpenMouth2.jpg
Canon 30D Macro lens ISO 250 shot Raw

Man!! I actually said "Damn you!" outloud when I saw this picture....because it's so good! LOL. Very well done, man. Very well done.

WOW - that is phenominal!

thats a great pic...what kind of fish is that?

starry blenny

A couple of mine
 

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/DSC_1680.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/DSC_1681.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/DSC_1689.jpg

Nice love the light on the last one.

Just gotta take out the URLs

Thanks Steve

red flabellina laying eggs on hydroid... enter this one in the contest
http://photos-c.ll.facebook.com/phot...40210_8615.jpg

NFS: velcro star killing a radulinis sculpin
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...15835_1212.jpg

pics taken with powershot sd870 with undwerwater casing. shots are from the wild in Howe Sound (posted with steve's permission)

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r...sh_album/7.jpg

Pearl Bubble
FujiFinepix Macro setting

Dam i wihs my point and click camera had a better macro funtion.... :twised:

not that i would be able to compete with some off these pics... wow..:mrgreen:

Man so far these pics are awesome! So good it's given me an idea which I'll post later and see what people think.

Now that I have a keyboard, that actually works. :D

My pics were taken with a cheapie Sony digital and a mag glass. So perhaps not the same quality as some of the macro shots, it can be done.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/thumbs/1.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/DSC_1684.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/DSC_1687.jpg

All taken with a D300 with Sigma 150mm Macro in RAW format.

Everyone check the new addition on the front page (first post) and let me know your thoughts.

Great idea :biggrin:

:surprise: friggin amazing picture!

and awsome idea for the selling of pictures!

I wish i had the fifty kickin around for a picture :sad:

great idea steve! In that case, ill enter the red flabellina nudibranch picture and not the velcro star/radulinis pic. Technically the latter belongs to the aquarium since I took it during work. the flabellina pic can be sold.

so if someone wants to buy a photo, would you contact the photographer on a case by case basis? because Im certain a bunch of these pics have been reduced from their normal size and better prints could be produced from their original quality files.

Sounds good.

If a picture is purchased I will do my best to contact the photographer and request a full size picture to be sent to me by email. Members can email me full size pictures ahead of time if they wish (sphelps@sasktel.net). I will place the username or other specified name on the picture just as I have been doing before posting all pictures for voting.

Yup a great idea Steve! Cant see a problem with that at all. Only good things to come from it.:biggrin:

Hmm, "IF" I enter a photo, it certainly is NOT for sale. It's mine, and if I want it sold, I'd sell it myself. And if someone really likes it, they can have a copy of the original and go get it printed.