I find it impossible to take pics in the tanks especially the little tanks. You get shadows from glass never mind your shadow. Then like you said positioning the camera to get close and good angle is extremely difficult.

Another suggestion is to make a little studio box with peat and some decorations move the t temporarily in there for the pictures.

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Neitzchie wrote: Yea the iPad does have a nice camera. Don't you find that its a bit big to manipulate easly?

Yeah, that is definately a negative, especially when it moves the "take picture" button away from any free fingers.
With a bit of shuffling I usually manage to get it close enough, or else rest the Ipad on the tank.

Dimitri wrote: I find it impossible to take pics in the tanks especially the little tanks. You get shadows from glass never mind your shadow. Then like you said positioning the camera to get close and good angle is extremely difficult.

Another suggestion is to make a little studio box with peat and some decorations move the t temporarily in there for the pictures.

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Whenever possible, I usually try not to take pics through the glass. I rather open the lid and take them with no glass in the way.

Ceratogyrus wrote:
Whenever possible, I usually try not to take pics through the glass. I rather open the lid and take them with no glass in the way.

Yip never through glass. Problem is you always tend to get pictures from above. Like your ceratogyrus sp you never get to see how long the horn is etc

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Hi,

You have a good camera, so the trick is in the shooting ! Try to take pics during feeding time. That's the only time I can get pics of my baby balfouri's. Take the lid off and experiment with the zooming and the macro setting. If you set the camera to take very high quality pics, you can upload these pics to a computer and use the Zoom/Crop function to see the detail of the pic taken. That way, you don't have to put the camera in the T's face and the pic is good enough to show off

We also have a Nikon.

If you don't have Photoshop or some generic version of it - Use the Microsoft Office Picture Program thingy. It works just as well to enhance the pics (even if you take a horrid picture). Or use Instagram to edit, available on most smart phones.

If the lighting is crap, use a torch. I also like to take pictures during the day.

Regarding the flash, I use mine a lot. it works for me :eyepoke:

Use the camera more often, Practice makes perfect !!

I use a remote flash with a diffuser to have an off center diffused flash. Works pretty good.
When I used a point and shoot with popup flash, use a diffuer over the flash to spread the light (coffee filter placed approx 10cm from the flash). It removes harsh shadows and evens outs the light. You do get a slightly flatter image with a flash, but when diffused properly it works pretty good. Professional portraits are taken with a diffused flash, so they are not useless.

The additional light however works great in making the image really sharp by allowing a fast shutter speed and smaller aperture giving a larger focal range (More of the spider in focus). If you have or can use a macro lens it helps as well, but might have to reduce the aperture to gain the larger focal range (I use a 50mm prime with a f/4 or f/.

Taking the spider out really is ideal. You can position the spider. Tip with taking it out, spiders do eventually get tired, so just keep prodding it to where you want it and it calms down a bit and you can take it out. You never have to touch it and you can position it where and how you like to once it realises that you are not going to eat it
My one B albopilosum used to bite the tongs until it realised that it is not food nor threat and I could even position it's legs (I believe Duke poses all his spiders leg by leg).

Take 100s of photos, eventually you will have some nice ones.