I recently spalshed out on a new Tamron 90mm macro
lens which cost an arm and a leg but the quality is quite stunning.
I just had to try it out and the weather was too miserable for any
outings so I took some shots of my tropical fish, something I have
been meaning to do for years.
I used a couple of small studio flash heads borrowed from work
and positioned them above the tank as close as I could get. This
gave me a shooting aperture of f32 and so plenty of depth of field.
When shooting closeups keeping everything in focus from front to
back is always a problem so you need lots of light, either direct
sunlight or a big flash.
There is a very handy gadget called a ring flash which screws on
to the front of your lens like a filter. These can be very useful
if you want to take a lot of macro shots in poor light.
As the fish don't take posing directions very well I had to take
a lot of shots in order to get a few pleasing compositions. I particularly
like this one as viewing angle is quite dynamic and it reminds me
vaguely of the 'Charlie's Angels' posters. (Yes I know there were
three of them)
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