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    This is a whip coral Goby, shot at a site just off Kuredu in the Maldives. They spend their time resting on long branches of hard coral which move with the current - not helping much for macro shooting, especially as they can flit around very quickly if you spook them!

    Techs wise, this was shot with a Canon 7d and 60mm lens, ISO 100, 1/50th at f11. The reason for the slow shutter speed is to allow a more 'blue' background. A faster shutter speed gives a black background and vice versa.

    Lighting was with 2 strobes which were fitted with a warming filter, which makes the original image too red, but when adjusted in the RAW converter, the subject returns to its natural colour and the blue background gets a nicer deep shade of blue.

    Possibly could have posted this in 'macro', but I'll see how it goes in here!

    Some of the whites on the coral seem a little hot to me, so all PP advice greatly appreciated

    Mike

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    Hi Mike - I love your underwater stuff and the brilliant blue bg here really makes the image pop. Before I read your intro I also thought some of the whites were a bit on the hot side. I'm assuming you've recovered them as far as you want to go in the raw conversion. If so, you can try a lumo mask at about 40-45% opacity.

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    Nice work with the dual strobes. The fish is perfectly illuminated. I love the shimmer in the tail fin. If you print it or submit this image into a contest, clone out the couple little backscatter points of light in the lower left of the image. I suppose those could be hot pixels but I bet they are backscatter. Beautiful image. I am envious.

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    WOW!!! Thats cool, so nice to see something different on the forum...I can't comment on the colours as I have never been underwater and seen them...But its a very appealing photograph to me, and if it is to you, thats what counts in the end!

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    I think this is great and I'd love to see more of them. I had no idea that ss affected colour in this case, but I can see how it does. I wouldn't change a thing.
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    Love the diagonal comp and colours here Mike, agree with Rachels lumo mask solution for the whites.
    TFS


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    Wow Mike , i missed your UW photography , great to see you posting this again.
    Love the image design , very simple and affective .Great colors and tones , would just burn the HL and give the blue a slight different hue , but cannot tell you exactly which direction .
    I would sharpen it slightly more .

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    Hi Mike - I love your underwater stuff and the brilliant blue bg here really makes the image pop. Before I read your intro I also thought some of the whites were a bit on the hot side. I'm assuming you've recovered them as far as you want to go in the raw conversion. If so, you can try a lumo mask at about 40-45% opacity.
    Thanks Rachel - I've got mountains to learn compared to you guys about PP. Hopefully soon I'll upgrade my software soon and I'll take this advice on board and re-process then. Thanks for your time
    Last edited by Mike Poole; 08-28-2014 at 06:38 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Galkowski View Post
    Nice work with the dual strobes. The fish is perfectly illuminated. I love the shimmer in the tail fin. If you print it or submit this image into a contest, clone out the couple little backscatter points of light in the lower left of the image. I suppose those could be hot pixels but I bet they are backscatter. Beautiful image. I am envious.
    Hands up! backscatter not hot pixels, well spotted! Thanks for commenting

    Mike

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    Neat shot. The perch is just as interesting as the fish.

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