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Photographing @ the Aquarium I am about to make a trip to the Monterey Aquarium. I currently use a Nikon D70. Since I have never taken photos at an aquarium before, I was looking for a little advice on lense, focusing system, metering. Thanks!
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Jon Close |
http://www.mbayaq.org/vi/vi_aquarium/vi_aq_visit.php#photography: "Photography & Video "During your visit, you're welcome to take photos and video for your personal use only. Commercial photography is allowed only with prior written permission from our Public Relations department. For your safety and the safety of other visitors, please refrain from using tripods in the aquarium. "Flash photography can hurt some animals—like sea dragons, octopuses and others. Before you click the shutter, please look for signs asking you not to flash the animals. You'll find professional photo postcards of many of our animals in our gift and bookstores." The tanks are usually not lit very brightly. You'll need to use at least ISO 400, and probably ISO 800 or 1600 to get shutter speeds high enough to stop motion. A close-focusing, relatively wide-angle lens with lens hood so that you can get close to the glass and cut reflections. A polarizing filter would also eliminate reflections, but would cut too much light to be useful.
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