Hi John, Thanks for your input. I believe that I can make better photos than the fellow who put up that gallery, and that I'll be able to get better shots, and better quality shots. Nothing like a little hubris first thing in the AM, eh <LOL>
Do you think digital would have helped you get better results? In what way? Shel > [Original Message] > From: John Francis < > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:53:24PM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > I'm going to try to take some time off and head down to the Monterey Bay > > Aquarium for some R n R. Photographing the jellyfish exhibit has been on > > my "to do" list for a while. Has anyone photographed the exhibit - any > > suggestions? > > > > I found these pics, but boy, are they poor quality .... > > > > http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/monterey-aquarium-jellyfish.html > > If you think those are poor quality, then you're probably not going > to get anything you like. While I'm not too impressed by the first > few images in that gallery, I find the later ones (especially 4 & 7) > to be pretty good. They're certainly better than anything that I > managed to get. Admittedly that was before I had the digital body, > so I was probably shooting Portra 800 with a 50mm/f1.4 lens, using > a monopod to get exposure times down around 1/4 of a second.
