arowanaman

I am not sure what the rules are for internet submissions. You all are right this year they are not asking you for a printed copy of your tank for the Digital camera photo option, every other year you had to submit a 5x7 and the picture on a disc so they could process it themselves.

Back in 2004 I placed 39th finally made it in the top 50 but this last year not so well. I have the photo's of my tanks professionally taken to help my odds.

slickwillislim

39th thats pretty good. Do you have a link?

Proffesional photography... Is this through a friend or something? How do you go about finding a professional photographer that can shoot an aquarium. I might look into that one day if I ever get to that level.

arowanaman

HMM I do not have a link to the picture exact sorry but you can see it in the contest book back in 2004.

As for the photographer was a customer of mine that I installed a home theatre for that I made some stereo trade deals with to get him to take pictures of my tanks and now it has been a tradition every year now. works out for him just improves his portfolio in what he can do, and I get increadible photo's of my tanks. It is hard to have a picture do your tank justice but with $40,000. worth of equipment taking the pictures really does capture the quality of your tank.

slickwillislim

Wow 40,000 worth of equipment, proffesional photographer. Nice.

BTW Urkevitz: I recieved a confirmation Email.

I just picked one of my photos where the Green neons where schooling pretty well and I had done a good job blacking out the light from above. I didn't edit a single thing.

arowanaman

everyone entering I truly wish you all the best of luck in the contest I have seen allot of tanks on this forum that I believe are allot better than mine so sencirly best of luck to all.

When I get the photo's taken the aquarium lights are not even used just the strobe lighting this is the trick to bring out your reds because lower temperature lighting makes reds more vibrant just allitle help to the competitition. Plus with strobes you can make your shutter speed faster which will make your fish not blur and bring out more detail.

Leonard

I don't really know if I'll finish my scape niether.. but I hope so.

Nice that they send a comfirmation. I would feel uncomfortable to not been comfirmed and that I might would miss the whole competion =)
When do they send info about when and how you can buy the magazine with all entries?

I also have Canon G7! It'll be nice to see how they judge my tank! I think I'm the youngest person from Sweden who joins! 15 years old

Don't you think I can cut the images so that I can put away a part of my room which don't belongs to my tank?

Ajax

Yes you can crop & adjust lens distortion before entering it.

slickwillislim

Oh. Well I guess I got confused by the contest application from. I sent in a completely untouched photo straight from my camera. Its a jpeg because the G7 doesn't take pictures in RAW so I didn't change anything. Now I wish I had atleast cropped it and sharpened it a tiny bit.

arowanaman

you did right by not touching the picture on the application form under the Digital camera data information it say's "Do not make any image processing such as trimming or retouch". I'm almost positive that is why they made my picture so small in the book and maybe not placed as well as it could of.

Ajax

I know it does, but I have it from a VERY reliable source that those kinds of modifications are acceptable.