ACRYLIC BOX top down shots

[concept3]

THANK you RICH!!!

 

[concept3]

The last three pics of the fish were OBVIOUSLY taken through the front glass...............


ALL PICS TAKEN WITH A NIKON D70S ON MANUAL MODE AND 60MM MACRO LENS


***I threw the learning curve out the window***

 

[concept3]

Rich, there are a few minor modifications on the box that I need. I did some accidental fragging on my tan acro and blue tort last night, LOL

 

[RichT]

so the hidden, built in, club donation fraging feature worked?
When ever your ready to hook up I'll make the adjustments.

 

[Ruden]

Awesome Pics Merv. Awseome Job Rich.

Bob

 

[steve68]

Cool nice shots.
so does the black Acrylic help to block off ligh?

 

[Phyl]

Suuuuuweeeeeeeeet! Very nice photos. Those clams are STUNNING!! (Tang police here, that yellow tang looks HUNGRY!)

 

[grasshopper]

Great pics, but I agree with Phyl FEED THAT TANG!!!!

 

[concept3]

hold your horses, that tang was 3 days old in my tank. I just "rescued" it from the LFS.... (actually it was the smallest one out of the group, I wanted to get something that was as small as my Hippo tang... 3")

She's getting fatter by the day.

 

[concept3]

Cool nice shots.
so does the black Acrylic help to block off ligh?

Steve, I think it actually blocks off SOME usable light, I had a little bit of a shadow in some of the pics, but I cropped them out. you can see the teardrop maxima has a slight dark cast on the bottom right.

 

[Phyl]

Seemed hard to believe that the hippo looked so good but the yellow looked starved. Glad to hear that it is just new. It was just such a sad picture to see with the rib bones sticking out like that. It will be fun to see her/his picture again in a month to see how much fatter it is. Mine is a cow and I didn't even know they had bones inside, lol.

 

[RichT]

If the black acrylic wasn't there, I think you'd get reflection off the inside of the front panel. Just a guess.

 

[grasshopper]

hold your horses, that tang was 3 days old in my tank. I just "rescued" it from the LFS....

Excuses, excuses.... j/k with ya. Glad to hear it's eating well. So I don't get it?- if the box has black acrylic in it, how can you take a picture through the black acrylic???

 

[grasshopper]

-BTW my favorite is the one of the clam right above the Y tang....

 

[concept3]

The one end of the box uses clear acrylic (where the lens looks out), the other four walls are black acrylic.

 

[grasshopper]

I know, it was a joke.... :

 

[MattP725]

My yellow was transparent when I got him... now he is a fat little bugger. Took him a few months to really starting eating well though.

 

[concept3]

Yeah, I knew it was a joke.........

 

[steve68]

how do u hold the box with the cam?

 

[concept3]

The box actually sits a little bit underneath the water's surface, and becomes buoyant, so it's a little easier to manuever around the tank. The camera is held by a tripod clip, which Rich fabricated into the box so that it is solid. It slides out, camera and clip.