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After publishing my article about the extension tubes, I got some immediate feedback and a few suggestions to apply. Gary Parr of ReefThreads offered to take a look at one of my RAW files, the original photo taken of an acan. I emailed him the 12 meg file so he could see what I was working with, and he replied with excellent pointers for me to try next. He also included a cleaned up version of my picture:

The first thing I noticed was that ...

For a long time now, I've followed discussion of extension tubes for macro photography. And a few years ago, I looked up what they cost and quickly dismissed them. However, in the back of my mind, I kept thinking "what if those are really what I need to get these stellar macro shots?"

Probably a year ago, I considered getting them again. I talked to someone that had them, and to someone else that had used some... one person said I could use the cheap plastic tubes (less than $10) ...

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 ...

Good day, Reef Addicts!

I have a lot of decisions to make for my new tank set up. (Rimless 60g 24"x24"x24") But there are two larger ones that are weighing on my mind heavily. The first one is my sump location (I'll do a separate blog entry on that) the second is my lighting system. I basically have my heart set on one of two options, but if anyone can convince me to change my mind, then props to them.

First option is to have 10 NO T12s.

Okay ...