Any Tips for a Bad Photographer?

That one seeems okk

All i can say is get a better camera, but try and use it without the flas but use natural light if you can, have a play around with different lights, angles, you should get some good shots.

Tripod.

My digital camera is rather bad, too (HP - don't buy one!). The tripod, dark room, no flash, and anticipating when the fish will swim in front of the camera, i.e. they're heading this way click now and hope they don't turn around. For us bad camera people, I don't think there's any other way than only getting one good picture out of every few dozen. Luckily, you're not wasting film.

Taking photos of aquarium fish is one of the most difficult things ever. There's relatively low light in a fish tank, plus you have some distortion and reflections from the glass. Not to mention most fish are CONSTANTLY moving. Just keep practicing. You'll get better. And keep in mind you'll take a LOT of bad shots just to get one good one. Don't get discouraged.

that picutre seems to be ok to me. There will always be bad picutres though. I just take lots of picutres like the photographers who take photos of models ;-) Just press the button as fast as you can after your in focus and your dound to get some good shots.

Hopefully you have a digital camera. If your using film that might not be such a good idea.

The flash does reflect off the glass. I seem to have better shots when the room is dark and the tank lights are on with no flash. Sometimes I use the flash for a change and it works best when the camera is parallel to the glass of the tank. It seems to cut down the angle a lot.

One tip is to never take the picture straight on.. The glass acts like a mirror and the flash will show. Take pics at an angle to the tank.

And, as Kveeti mentioned, use a tripod. If you can try adjusting the shutter speed to a faster setting.

if you can temporarily increase the light that is over the tank that would help also. I use put several lights over the tank above what normally lights it when I try to take pictures so the shutter speed can get faster because of the extra light.

if you do put more light over the tank you have to make sure the light source isn't shining from the light directly to the camera. all the light the camera sees has to come from in the tank, so use some sort of shroud or cloth to block the extra light from getting to the camera except from in the tank.

Tripods are kind of a double-edged sword. They steady the camera and all, but I've found that I take much better photos without it. Just practice a lot and your hands will become more steady.

Another thing that makes for great fish pictures is a zoom lens. Take the pictures from ffarther away from the tank and zoom in. That'll give you a shorter depth of field (focus range). That way the fish will be nice and sharp, but the background will go out of focus. Unfortunately, most digital cameras can't get enough zoom to make much of a difference. And when you DO zoom, you lose a stop or two of aperture, which can negate the depth of field effect. I've found that my best pictures come from my old film SLR. I have a 135mm f/2.0 lens that I use. That gives me a fast enough shutter for hand-holding with 800-speed film and a very shallow depth of field from the wide aperture. When I get some photos scanned in, I'll post them.