So I posted about a week or two ago before on the same topic.
To begin I'm not a photographer, I'm taking photos on livestock to be uploaded on my online store. We sell corals, marine fish online and wholesale.
Few issues I'm running into are,
1. I don't have enough depth (literal depth) to take focused photographs of corals. What I mean by this is my coral frag tanks are no more then 8" deep at most. So if I back away my lens is already out of the water.
2. Getting a system of storing and cataloging photos. This is important because I have thousands of corals and fish and I have to take hundreds of photos a day. A DSLR camera that auto uploads the raw photos to lightroom or my phone would be super time saving. I use light room but I'm not good using it on a commercial level so Im still learning. If anyone has experience with this please let me know.
So far specifically for the wysiwyg photos I've just been using my Samsung note edge inside a 1gallon breeder tank as a viewing glass.
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>>2968902
Polarizer on the lens and back up outside the tank perhaps.
Polarizer would make the tank clear if it's clean, just need to look and see if you'd get everything in frame if you did it.
>>2968905
Ok Good to know so my gear is a Cannon D7 with an auto focusing lens.
I post pictures of my equipment later.
Basically aside from the camera I use this contraption over my lens to obviously keep it dry when in the water.
http://www.avastmarine.com/collections/avast-built/products/top-down-port-xl
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>>2968915
>Leaving a magfloat scraper in the aquarium
>Visible sand line.
>Corner inwall aquarium.
>lifeless rock work.
All of my why.
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I wish I'd gotten the polfilter for my macro lens before the trip to the aquarium
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