Today In The Fishroom~10/29/11 The Betta Project

[Aquamojo]

My good friends Rose and Tony Orso laid a couple of very nice Betta on me to photograph. I purchased two plastic boxes at a local craft store. One I painted with a black background and the other I left clear. I set them up on top of a piece of eggcrate suspended across two cinder blocks. Underneath I put one heavily diffused Nikon SB-900 flash...on top another with a Gary Fong Lightsphere. Behind I placed a silver reflector. This had no effect on the black background, but when I switched to the clear it gave some additional back light. Once I placed the box down I cut a small hole in the eggcrate and placed a hand mirror so it would lay against the side of the box.

Here's the setup:



The results...IMHO were amazing. I was shooting at ISO 100, 1/320th, @ f32. The colors were off the chart since the light was filtering both in front and behind the fish. Here's the results:

Never seen a pink Betta. This fish is amazing.

[Aquamojo]

Beautiful split tail Betta.

[Aquamojo]

Finally a dragon scale Betta.













Hope to do more of these in the future.

[redsea]

Wow, stunning Bettas!

[Aces11]

Beautiful bettas! Your pictures are stunning!

[toddnbecka]

Impressive as always, but I didn't think you took pix of anything that small unless they were cichlid fry.

[Convict2161]

Beautiful pictures!!

[Aquamojo]

Originally Posted by Aces11

Beautiful bettas! Your pictures are stunning!

Thanks.

Originally Posted by toddnbecka

Impressive as always, but I didn't think you took pix of anything that small unless they were cichlid fry.

It's all about the photography...gotta keep it interesting.

Originally Posted by Convict2161

Beautiful pictures!!

Thanks.

[BillD]

Beautiful shots, as usual, Mo. Nice to see you have added this forum to your list of places to post great pictures.

[Aquamojo]

Thanks Bill.

[Aquamojo]

Two More:

[Aces11]

Gorgeous!