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Whip coral Goby

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.
TFS,
Rachel
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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.
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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 .
TFS Andreas
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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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Originally Posted by
Joe Galkowski
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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