I have a Canon 400D and I have been trying to take pictures of my fish in my aquarium through the glass...?

Question

...but no matter how many times I catch the fish in focus, the picture still comes out blurred. I turn off all the lights in the room so I don't get a reflection of anything on the glass then I get really close to the fish from the outside and focus. I'm using the kit lens and the fish looks really good when I'm looking at it through the viewfinder...but when I take the actual picture, the shutter is still slow so I only catch a blur from the fish. I'm currently set at 1/10 F5.6.

Please help.

ISO 800 1/10 f5.6

Answer 1

Dun use flash and give the proper lighting to fishtank by bouncing to and reflecting material Ex. Thermocoal, white board, etc...

and use polorising filter in ur camera to avoid relfection.....

A polarizing filter, used both in color and black and white photography, can be used to darken overly light skies. Because the clouds are relatively unchanged, the contrast between the clouds and the sky is increased. Atmospheric haze and reflected sunlight are also reduced, and in color photographs overall color saturation is increased. Polarizers are often used to deal with situations involving reflections, such as those involving water or glass, including pictures taken through glass windows.

Polarizing filter is nothing but a type of filter whose use is least affected by digital photography; while effects that may visually resemble the results of a polarizing filter can be simulated with software post-processing, many of the optical properties of polarization control at the time of capture simply cannot be replicated, particularly those involving reflections.

There are two types of polarizing filters. A linear polarizer filter transmits one of two states of linearly polarized light. A circular polarizer (sometimes called a CPL filter) similarly selects a linear state but then converts it to circularly polarized light, by adding a birefringent layer (typically a quarter-wave plate) to the filter after the linear polarizer. The metering and auto-focus sensors in certain cameras, including virtually all SLRs, will not work properly with linear polarizers, both because of the mirror and because of the beam-splitters used to split off the light for focusing and metering. Circular polarizers will work with all types of cameras.

Answer 2

Your shutter speed is too slow if the fish move at all you will get blur from subject movement. Try a higher ISO, you need a shutter speed of at least 1/30 for a slow fish. The faster the fish move, the faster your shutter speed will have to be.

You have to have more light. Use a bigger light above the aquarium, (or shining in from the side, whatever looks better) I used to get pretty good exposure from an east facing window near my aquarium using just window light and the tank light.

Good luck.

Answer 3

I don't quite understand the question, but hopefully one of these ideas will help.

-how close exactly are you standing to the fish tank?
unless you have a macro lens, or a lens that has a macro setting, you have to keep your distance. If you have a 50mm lens, the subject, pretty much has to be 50mm away from you or the picture will blur.

-have you tried a slower setting?

-It could be related to depth of field, which is affected by the aperture. try increasing the aperture(this will of course force an even slower shutter speed, so find a tripod), maybe to around f/15 and see what happens. it should bring more elements into focus. Another way to check for depth of field, is to use the depth of field preview button that is found on most DSLRs. I use Nikon, so I don't know for sure if your camera has one, but Id check.

Answer 4

It's not broken. The shutter serves to expose your picture. The longer it is open, the more light comes in. The shorter it is, less light comes in. If your shutter speed is too fast, not enough light comes into your camera, which is why your pictures come out too dark. Aperture and ISO settings also affect the exposure of your picture, but I won't get into those for now. To ensure your pictures dont come out dark, use Av mode instead of Tv. Have fun and good luck.

Answer 5

turn off the autofocus and manually focus the camera. The lens is focusing on the glass, not the fish. Regardless of what you can understand, the lens is seeing the glass

Answer 6

i learned this at the aquarium, to take a picture of a fish tank you need to stand at about a 45 degree angle of the tank

Answer 7

Read the manual.