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Anenome Fish

NIKON D300S

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Milford Sounds, South Island, New Zealand

Behind The Lens

Location

The photo was taken in the Lembeh Straits. Lembeh and the Lembeh Straits are found in Indonesia, in North Sulawesi. The depth that this shot was taken at was taken at a depth of 15m during a scuba dive. Lembeh Straits is world renowned for its diving, in particular the genre of diving referred to as "muck" diving where the water or environment is not as clear but the fish and macro life is spectacular.

Time

Mid-afternoon but when it comes to this photo in relation to scuba diving, the time of day is irrelevant as you can imagine being underwater, its other night or day, in this case it was during the day.

Lighting

Lighting is a big issue underwater and you need to be careful in what you do. As you dive deeper, the color dissipates, with the loss of the red first. The deeper you go, the more monochromatic your scene and photo will become. The idea of using strobes dedicated for underwater work, is to not only light up the subject but bring back the color. At the same time, regardless of the clarity of the water, there will always be particles in the water that will produce backscatter if the lighting used is straight towards the subject. To get around this, you use a technique called "edge" lighting, where the strobes are positioned out away from the subject (either up, down or to the side) and the edge of the flash or light is what lights up the subject.

Equipment

The equipment used consist of: Nikon D300s Nikon 60mm Macro Lens The camera was housed in a Nauticam housing, purposely built for the camera and the underwater environment 2 x INON Z240 Strobes (flashes specifically made for underwater work)

Inspiration

Scuba Diving, travelling and the love of the underwater world. I cannot really stress enough what diving means to me and what a part of my life it has been. It is the aim of almost every diver with a camera to take that "perfect" anemone fish photo. To have the fish head and centered as it was captured makes as close to perfection as possible, noting that these critters do move around quickly and are hard to capture.

Editing

I try to capture the best possible picture while I have the camera in my hand and in water, keeping post-processing to a minimum. I take the shots in RAW and I use Adobe RAW for my post processing. On this photo, I made sure the reds were highlight and the shot centered appropriately. From there Adobe Photoshop was used to apply the copyright, resize and save in the format I need

In my camera bag

In the case, there is no bag, everything is either on or in the housing. For underwater work, I do use other lenses, Nikon 105mm Macro and a Tokina 10-17mm

Feedback

Patience!!!!! To get to the point where I took that shot, I trained to become a scuba diver and then a photographer who scuba dives. I have been diving for almost 15 years and 10 of them were with a camera.

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