Tail Puff - Do you have pics?

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Originally Posted by SolarityBengals

You know whats even harder than taking pics of cats? Trying to take pics of fish!!! Its awful!
I hear ya!

I've found it works the best if you put the camera on stop action and macro focus settings... then get reeeeeal close to the tank.

That's how I got this pic None of the other camera settings seemed to work.

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Thanks!

That macrofocus is some good stuff. In the full size version of the pic you can see each inidividual scale on Darwin (big fish).

I used the same settings when I took this picture of Tryon (kitty this time, not fish
) It's so neat to see all those colors.

I
macrofocus. Highly recommend it
 
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Yah I got the camera on super macro mode, my problem is getting the 1/10 (sorry not sure what the name of that number is) to 1/30 or 1/50 in that range. My camera automatically sets it. I did manage to get some pics of my ram spawn and some of the other fish. These were super improved from my first round of pics I ever took of the tank!

http://public.fotki.com/hurricanejedi/2006/fish_tank/
 
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Its an Olympus 3x..can't remember model but I think its 3 megapixels. Several years old. That number I menioned seems to have to do with the lighting. So I do a semi-press in a darker area at the right depth and then line my shot up. Dosen't always work out though as the depth isn't always right.
 

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Right on cue, Lily decided to tear through the house with her tail puffed out chasing her brother today. Of course, I only got the camera out and switched on in time for the end of it, but you'll get the idea

Here you can just see how puffed out her tail is - that manic look in her eyes means Tolstoy's in for trouble



Here you can see that the top half of her tail has already started to settle down again, but the bottom part is still a little bushy
 

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Yes, she and Tolly are Singapuras and they were both full of Singapura spirit today - Daddy-bean had loads of boxes out sorting out our 20 years of accumulated treasure as we look ahead to a possible house move. This set their Singapura blood racing and they were charging through the house, in and out of every box.......well..... you have Bengals, I'm sure you get the picture
 

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Originally Posted by flisssweetpea

Right on cue, Lily decided to tear through the house with her tail puffed out chasing her brother today. Of course, I only got the camera out and switched on in time for the end of it, but you'll get the idea

Here you can just see how puffed out her tail is - that manic look in her eyes means Tolstoy's in for trouble
Wow that is a manic look! I wouldn't want to be Tolstoy
 

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This is Coco. Her tail actually isn't fluffed here - it just looked like that all the time.


She was a very sweet cat, towards humans, but unfortunately we were unable to make this home Coco's forever home because she continuously viciously attacked my cats. She had to be adopted out into a home where she was an only child, but I hear she is adapting well and is happy.
 

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I was looking through some old pictures ("old" as in November, lol) and found a couple of tail puff pics that I didn't realize I had. They aren't playful tail puffs, Molly was terrified about something, probably Jake (my dog)
 

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LOL-yes the tail puffs are so funny!
Currently all I have is Lily and she was being silly, and turned around as I was snapping her pic and her tail looked like this:



She reminds me of a skunk or a squirrel!!
 

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Great pics!!

Here's Timmy, he is 3 months old and has seen a dog passing by:

 

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Unfortunately, I have really horrible timing, but here's my attempt to catch Frankie and Rishi during their poofy tail moments...they are starting to un-poof at this point.
 
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