Angel Fish Melbourne for Saturday Critter

 

Another image from my old home aquarium, captured years ago with the faithful Pentax K20D. The colours remain surprisingly vivid — cool, fluid hues that seem to breathe anew with each glance.

At the centre drifts an angelfish, elegant and deliberate, its fins like silken banners unfurling in slow motion. Native to the quiet, shaded tributaries of the Amazon Basin, the angelfish glides among submerged roots and dappled light in its natural home, where the waters are soft, warm, and rich with life. Its form — tall, slender, almost ethereal — evolved for that still world of reeds and reflection.

In the glass confines of an aquarium, it retains its ancestral poise: a creature both ornamental and ancient, carrying within its gentle movements the memory of a forested river far away. Even after all these years, the photograph recalls that serene moment — the living jewel suspended in liquid light, timeless and tranquil.

Pentax K20D

DA 70mm f2.4 limited 

Linking Saturday Critter

Black and White Photography

Title: Black And White Digital Photography

Canon 85mm f1.2L

Pentax Da 70mm f2.4

Canon 24mm f1.4L

Pentax 77mm f1.8 ltd

There are several ways to achieve black and white digital photography. With black and white digital photography, you are bringing the end user back into a period of time when life seemed a lot simpler. Many digital cameras come equipped with a function to take these types of photos. If your digital camera does not support this function, you can still change your photographs into black and white with software programs.

Pentax 31mm f1.8

Leica 25mm f1.4

l want your black and white digital photography to look its best when you are finished. A technique that can help you get the best image out of your digital photograph is through image manipulation. You may find it better to convert your eight-bit color images (which are usually jpegs) into 16-bit colors first. This is important because an 8-bit RGB can be the same as a 10-bit grayscale.

Canon 24mm f1.4L

Pentax 31mm f1.8 Limited

Pentax 77mm limited

You can find information all over on the Internet to help you with your black and white digital photography. These resources can be found in everything from websites to magazines. Colored pictures can look truly beautiful as a black and white display. You will usually have to convert your graphics, because although there are options with digital cameras, there are no true black and white digital cameras.

Canon 50mm f1.2L

Canon 200mm f2.8L

Pentax 200mm f2.8

Pentax Da 70mm f2.4 limited

Pentax 43mm f1.9 Limited

Voigtlander 12mm f5.6

Leica 50mm f2 Summicron

Canon 50mm f1.2L

Pentax Fa 77mm f1.8 limited

Canon 24mm f1.4L

Pentax 21mm limited

Pentax Fa 43mm limited

Pentax A 50mm f1.2

Correct the Colorcasts

An important part of black and white digital photography is correcting the colorcasts. These are caused by bad lighting, but you can use software such as PhotoShop Elements to make the relevant changes by using their editing applications. The Imaging Factory is also software that can help you to easily convert and fix lighting areas in your graphics to get the best look with your black and white digital photography. If you want to turn your graphics into black and white digital photography, you can step into a completely new dimension in photography. You can do an endless array of projects right from your own computer.

Pentax 77mm f1.8 Ltd

Pentax Da 70mm f2.4

Pentax 31mm Ltd

Pentax A 50mm f1.2

Leica 50mm f1.4 Summicron

Canon 50mm f1.2L

Leica 25mm f1.4

Pentax 200mm f2.8

Pentax A 300mm f2.8

Pentax Fa 24mm f2

Pentax A 50mm f1.2

Pentax Da 55mm f1.4

Pentax Da 55mm f1.4

Pentax Da 55mm f1.4

Pentax Da 15mm limited

Pentax 16-50mm f2.8

Canon 50mm f1.2L

Pentax 31mm f1.8 limited

Canon 135mm f2L

Canon 135mm f2L

Pentax 77mm f1.8 limited

Pentax Da 21mm

Canon 50mm f1.2L

Pentax 31mm limited

Pentax A 50mm f1.2