It likes it the worms.

[sean]

My camera skills are pretty lame. I am trying to learn how to take good pics.The glare from my flash murders my pics and when I turn the flash off the shutter stays open longer causing blur. The pic I am posting is only clear because I used the flash and shot down in the tank without glass obstructing me.(Update:The pic was to big to post so I shrunk it and dropped the quality and now it blows but ohwell,I told you I suck.) Maybe this pic can be used as an illustration on the clever feeding method that I learned from Caudata. No more digging for worms guys! Whoo-Hoo!!! And since this is one of my better pics I feel I must lable it art and dub it "It likes it the worms"... Now I must go take my meds.

 

[pin-pin]

Hi Sean,

Nice idea. I might try using a larger more open dish like yours after my idea didn't work as well. Well, it did hold the blackworms in, but then it became a game of how many marms could fit into a small bowl.

 

[sean]

Cant say it was my idea,I got it from somebody here.Wish I could credit them by name.

 

[dimaris]

Cool pics, and lovely newts!! Sean, you could try, when taking pictures, instead of standing right in front of the tank (at an angle of 90 degrees), stand at a smaller angle, like 45 degrees... so that the light doesn't reflects directly back to the camera. That's why I do to take my pics, mainly of rodents, that I keep in tanks... but here is an example of one taken of my previous newts:

The trick is to take the pic at an angle smaller than 90

 

[william]

great pictures guys! esp. the marms!

 

[sean]

Thanks Dimaris,I have shot at angles and got away from the reflection but my flash is super bright and gives the pics a bathed in bright white light look. I am experimenting more so I will probably nail it soon. Hey Pin, Since I named my pic alow me to name yours "Last Marm out gets shipped to Georgia!" I like the fat one still in the jar so I have no objections to taking him.

 

[joeri]

Hey Sean, if you have a digital camera, chances are that you can lower the brightness of your flash. I know I can do it with mine and that's not a professional camera either. Check your manual, might be worth the effort