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The extension tubes are fun, allowing me to get better closeups. I shot most of these images with the 20mm extension tube, and used the SB-800 flash to make up for the higher f/9 setting. ISO 200 for all images.

My first subject was the Tuxedo Urchin. I like the shape, the blue pattern between the spines, and how much he moves around. I took a number of pictures to see close up what he's made of. This first image is the uncropped version. The second image is a crop and shows a tiny ...

Using the 20mm extension tube and my Macro lens, I shot a few more images from above. I'm still trying to improve how I edit RAW pictures during post processing.


Birdsnest twig

Drew's acro tips

Drew's acro skin - love the colors and texture.

Red Planet skin visible in the center between the corallites.

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The left side of my reef suffers from sand movement. The ebb of the Vortech pump seems to pull the sand toward the pump, leaving a huge low spot at least a foot wide that coincidentally buries some corals on the left. It wasn't this bad at first, but something changed and it will move in a day instead of over a week's time. In this recent picture, you can see the big hole. Maybe I bumped up the flow rate, I'm not sure.

I took a couple of ...

Here's a great video shot by Dustin Adamson.

I decided to try to take some pictures from above. I'm shooting with a Nikon D90, and used a 20mm extension tube with the 110mm Macro lens. Some shots were then taken with the 50mm with a polarizing filter, and I broke out the off shoe remote flash using an extending cable to light the subject from an angle, off to the side.

All images were shot in RAW-format in Manual mode. ISO varied depending on the amount of light the subject was under. Spectrum was 20,000K.

The ...