Aquarium Wonder

[Jman13]

My daughter at the Columbus Zoo Aquarium yesterday:

http://www.jordansteele.com/forumlinks/chloe_aquarium1.jpg

http://www.jordansteele.com/forumlinks/chloe_aquarium2.jpg

[wildchild508]

They are beautiful!

[tkbslc]

Do you ever get any bad shots? :)

Excellent as usual.

[Jman13]

Thank you! I appreciate that... To be fair, I have a great subject.

[burntpixel]

great shots for a very tough environment ...thumbs up...

[k-style]

omg these are adorable, good job at capturing your daughters emotions!!!!!!!

and must i say you handled those nasty lowlight conditions of an aquarium quite well!

ps GET RID OF THOSE CHEESY BORDERS@! hehe

[Jman13]

Thanks for all the comments. It was a very difficult place to shoot. These are ISO 1600 at f/1.4, and I barely had handholdable shutter speeds. The shadows made it impossible for AF to lock, so these are all manually focused.

As to the borders: I don't view these as cheesy..they're a 4 pixel stroke of white and black, not exactly elaborate. The reason I have them is to set the picture off from the page. If I have a picture with a good amount of white or light color, it blends completely into the forum page and looks like part of the picture has disappeared. Similarly, a dark only picture will lose itself on dark forum pages (not this one) and on my website. This sets off the picture from the page, and isn't embellished at all.

[710 Studio]

I'd say given the conditions you described, you did excellent work. I kind of like the shallow DOF on these... it adds to the wonder of it all. Nicely done.

[xxenssial]

they are beautiful