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Continuing from yesterday's blog, I spent some time trying to capture some polyps on film - so to speak. An SD card, to be precise.

Getting the skin of the acropora to show up has always been a wish of mine.

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I've been shooting with my Nikon D90 for about three years now, yet always try to learn new things from others. I was chatting with a few photogs on Facebook yesterday about super macro shots. Basically, everyone always says to shoot RAW and I've been stubborn about it because I don't print any of my pictures. The other setting is to save huge images to the memory card, instead of small ones. When I say small, they were still much larger than your average monitor:

Small: 2144 x 1424 ...

It occurred to me that I'd not taking a picture of the refugium zone in a while. Feather caulerpa has been my staple for many years, and even though I run biopellets the macro algae seems to grow well. My display tank stays algae free, although I do see some micro algae taking hold in the anemone tank. I'll have to manually assault that situation before it gets out of hand.

A couple of pest anemones are in the refugium, but can be removed ...

Tomorrow, members of DFWMAS will be coming over to visit from 3pm to 6pm to learn about reef photography. I've been taking pictures of fish and livestock for over ten years, and get many compliments for those efforts. I also have a (cough) friend that says I don't know a thing about it, but she's in California so essentially I ignore her completely. (Jessy, I'm talking about you in case you missed it.)

When it comes to taking pictures, I have specific ...

Today marks the date the livestock moved into the 400g and the 60g. Sometimes people confuse that with the date the tank was started up, thinking that the necessary cycle was rushed or the livestock was simply thrust into the tank in some type of mad rush. No, two months ago all the livestock was transferred out of the 215g and my frag tank into the 400g and the 60g. The 400g had been running with sand, live rock and water for nearly four weeks before livestock was added. The sump with all the ...