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Aye - I need to up my aperture from f2.8 I think; that Leucosticta is in focus at the front of his body but not at the back! Gonna try a few closer shots I think. Black Phantoms are nice fish; they like to show themselves off a bit!

Cracking photo that Rick, what settings did you use? I used to have Black Phantoms too :)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-CZ6-2358-Off-Camera-Shoe-Cord/dp/B0000C4G7P That one?

I'm looking for something which will allow me to use full TTL exposure with the flash off the camera's hot shoe - something like a remote sync lead? I'm not sure exactly what I need, can anyone advise? Just wanna be able to put my flash above my fishtanks to get some light in from above...

Cheers lads! :)

Tripod arrived today. Got a few more pics:

Aye mate - they're set at -1 exposure compensation (aperture priority mode with f2.8 set) to get as quick a shutter speed as possible. They were shot in RAW, just forgot to recompensate once I got them on the PC :) Will have a bash when I get in from work. And yeah, I'm still struggling to...

For reference: Without flash With flash

Yeah I get this a lot when I put eBay auctions on. Basically they pay you x amount of money (x=£1000 in this little equation) by bank draft, then ask you to give them y amount of money change (y=£400). So you make £600, and you return £400 change to them. But... the bank draft never...

Aye mate - the "Red Hump" (that's its common name - Geophagus steindachneri) and the Three-Spotted Demonfish (Satanoperca daemon). Both from South America; though fairly different localities and water conditions - my water is sitting about right (acidity) for the Steins but too high for...

Yeah mate I reckon that's the next step. It's the current tank lighting (2x 48" tubes resting on glass in the tank's hood) that is giving me the best photos - though they're not bright enough to give 1/125 shutter speeds or so for the quicker fish.

I did try it with the flash but it totally saturates the colours :( The fish look pronounced (in a bad way) and their flanks turn a funny shade of light brown instead of the true sorta golden coat they have.

Nice one mate. Bet you can understand the problems I'm having now! Picked up the 60mm today. Superb :) I love it. It does help fairly significantly. Here are a few I shot. By no means perfect (the watermarks etc are awful and the actual pictures are not good pictures; but the quality is...

Oh and Rick - Zebra Danios are great starting fish, tough as nails! :) When I worked in an aquatics department, we had a customer smash into the glass of one of our display tanks with their trolley. Big crack in the side (though very thin) that nobody noticed (and she didn't report). Over night...