How To Take Good Betta Pictures

[Bleuet]

Hello I'm new hear and I was wondering how to take good betta pictures. I'd love to take pictures of my feisty little guy!!

Please give lots of info in your answers, thanks for the help!!

 

[Fishball7]

Hello I'm new hear and I was wondering how to take good betta pictures. I'd love to take pictures of my feisty little guy!!

Please give lots of info in your answers, thanks for the help!!

Mirror. Patience.

 

[Suwa]

Yes, patience. You can honestly take good photos with any camera. The key camera settings are this: flash OFF and macro settings ON! Try to take the photo when the fish is flaring and doing that little impressive pose thing they do in between their 'attacks' on the mirror.


If you find your camera takes too long to focus and won't take the shot, switch it to Manual instead of Automatic. We recently got a new camera and to be honest, its so fancily programmed to get the perfect shot, that if it thinks the shot isn't perfect, it never actually takes a shot, which is so stupid (trying to take photos at my aunt's wedding was a nightmare!) So yeaaahh, if it does that silly stubbornness with you switch to manual and play around with the settings, like shutter speed. Try to get the shutter speed to go as fast as you can get it set without making the photo too dark, so that there's no blurry fish.

 

[drn_lvs_lnt]

Strangely, I've never been able to get a reaction out of my Betta using a mirror.

 

[Bleuet]

Yes, patience. You can honestly take good photos with any camera. The key camera settings are this: flash OFF and macro settings ON! Try to take the photo when the fish is flaring and doing that little impressive pose thing they do in between their 'attacks' on the mirror.


If you find your camera takes too long to focus and won't take the shot, switch it to Manual instead of Automatic. We recently got a new camera and to be honest, its so fancily programmed to get the perfect shot, that if it thinks the shot isn't perfect, it never actually takes a shot, which is so stupid (trying to take photos at my aunt's wedding was a nightmare!) So yeaaahh, if it does that silly stubbornness with you switch to manual and play around with the settings, like shutter speed. Try to get the shutter speed to go as fast as you can get it set without making the photo too dark, so that there's no blurry fish.

Thanks I will try some of your suggestions with my camera.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Mirror and patience is the best way. I took this one using a mirror and a cheap nikon camera. This was actually after he swam away from the mirror.

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Sometimes you may need to take multiple shots once you get him worked up.

 

[Man of fish]

That's a beautiful betta fish

Mirror and patience is the best way. I took this one using a mirror and a cheap nikon camera. This was actually after he swam away from the mirror.

http/imageshack.us/photo/my-images/814/dscn3661g.jpg/

Sometimes you may need to take multiple shots once you get him worked up.

 

[KrazyKuhli]

Wow Dieses thats a very handsome Betta you got, I find having a mirror on the side of the tank and shooting from an angle with the flash highlight the metallic in their fins

Taken with these tips...

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Wow Dieses thats a very handsome Betta you got, I find having a mirror on the side of the tank and shooting from an angle with the flash highlight the metallic in their fins

Taken with these tips...
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You have a handsome boy there yourself! I know that flash is not recommended for taking photos, but the flash really brings out the lighter colors in Shade. I don't use flash for my other boys though.

 

[KrazyKuhli]

I'm always trying different things to get good shots like lining a T-shape toilet roll with foil and put it over the flash (I have a DSLR) and it lights either side of the fish without the flair

 

[Dieses Madchen]

i will have to try that!