Photo tips....
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You want to set your camera to macro mode which is a special mode for close ups. I would also recommend manual focusing. Another good thing that works well is to manually set your shutter speed and aperature. Don't ask me what settings because it all depends on your camera. Your best bet is trial and error. That and take LOTS of shots.
As said, LOTS of pictures are part of the key *L* I go through ~ 25 or so shots before I get a good one. Most likely, you are like me and don't use an external flash. If this is the case, then photographing a moving fish is hard, but there are some things you can do.
Before I get into different options, can you:
Change the shutter speed?
Change the aperature?
Manually focus?
change the exposure?
Change the ISO?
Before I get into different options, can you:
Change the shutter speed?
Change the aperature?
Manually focus?
change the exposure?
Change the ISO?
Hey Gomer 
Yes to all of the above. The camera has a function called "bestshot" which gives 20 plus examples of various conditions, make a choice, and adjust from there. There are 4 macro pre-sets, ranging from enhanced colour modes, and specific focus shots - all the pre-sets can be fine adjusted too. Given up on the flash - the camera adjusts to take pics better without it.
One thing I've noticed - as with the last posted pic, if the subject stays still you can take a dozen or so shots and come up with some nice ones, but as with my recent "Cichlid ID please" post, if the fish keeps moving (in this case to get closer to the camera to see what you're up to) it's really hard to get a good clear pic.
I'm slowly picking this up and getting better - but I know what people like Verse can do, and so I have something to strive for.
All advice welcome at this point, and I hope to summarise my findings in a future post.
Leopardess is ahead of me on this - but there's no harm in trying to catch up
Yes to all of the above. The camera has a function called "bestshot" which gives 20 plus examples of various conditions, make a choice, and adjust from there. There are 4 macro pre-sets, ranging from enhanced colour modes, and specific focus shots - all the pre-sets can be fine adjusted too. Given up on the flash - the camera adjusts to take pics better without it.
One thing I've noticed - as with the last posted pic, if the subject stays still you can take a dozen or so shots and come up with some nice ones, but as with my recent "Cichlid ID please" post, if the fish keeps moving (in this case to get closer to the camera to see what you're up to) it's really hard to get a good clear pic.
I'm slowly picking this up and getting better - but I know what people like Verse can do, and so I have something to strive for.
All advice welcome at this point, and I hope to summarise my findings in a future post.
Leopardess is ahead of me on this - but there's no harm in trying to catch up
Sorry for the delay.
Since you aren't using flash, you want to optimize what you got.
1st, for a moving fish, you want a reasonably fast shutter speed. 60 works, but 100+ is better if you can hit 200-400, awesome!...but unlikely with out flash
Depth of field...ie how "deep" is the focus range. I try and shoot with an aperature of ~5-8. much lower and you end up with too much of the fish out of focus
ISO: the higher the iso, the more noise, but the faster the shutter speed for a given aperature. I like to use the lowest possible, bus sometimes I have to shoot at iso 200 to gain some shutter speed
Exposure: Cameras tend to over expose aquarium pictures. This means you have needless long shutter speeds. I usually set mine at -0.7 or -0.1
Optimizing the above will get you crisper pictures. Hope my general nubmers work for you camera/light conditions.
Since you aren't using flash, you want to optimize what you got.
1st, for a moving fish, you want a reasonably fast shutter speed. 60 works, but 100+ is better
if you can hit 200-400, awesome!...but unlikely with out flash Depth of field...ie how "deep" is the focus range. I try and shoot with an aperature of ~5-8. much lower and you end up with too much of the fish out of focus
ISO: the higher the iso, the more noise, but the faster the shutter speed for a given aperature. I like to use the lowest possible, bus sometimes I have to shoot at iso 200 to gain some shutter speed
Exposure: Cameras tend to over expose aquarium pictures. This means you have needless long shutter speeds. I usually set mine at -0.7 or -0.1
Optimizing the above will get you crisper pictures. Hope my general nubmers work for you camera/light conditions.
The last pic I posted was of a Texas Cichlid of mine called Jack - he's a mean git, and will grow to be a foot long.
http://www.freewebs.com/purples/Texas.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/purples/Texas.JPG