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    Totally unable to compete with some of the awesome big animal portraits for this months theme (I'll get round to commenting later today!), but my dad always said "It's the taking part that counts" so here's a headshot of a Stonefish taken from a Northern Red Sea dive site - forgotten which one in all honesty!

    Canon 7d with 60mm macro
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    Wow Mike, what kaleidoscope of colours!

    I love this! Would never dare complain about colour casts LOL, just about every colour I can think of is present here...Just awesome, makes me think how wonderful Mother Nature is, and the diversity on this planet.

    Nice DOF and well exposed, in terms of composition err...it does fill the frame and I am afraid it might jump off the screen! Just kidding, would like to see some more images of this amazing creature if you have, thank you so much for sharing, a pleasure to view

    Have a super evening,
    Gabriela Plesea

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    Great close-up image with fantastic colours Mike. Super sharp and head-on view. Would love going diving with you and see your photography equipment and technique !

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    Really a wonderful closeup up with great details! I envy you and your diving! What a wonderful experience! Even better when you can bring back images like this! The coloring on the ones I've seen have been much more saturated, but you were there.

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    Hi Mike what else have you got in your UW collection , i must say i enjoy every single one !!
    Great close up of this stunning but potentially very dangerous fish .Like the framing and the overall look and feel , but for me the image needs some more punch . But this is just my own view and fully understand your way to present this image .
    A great pleasure to look at , so many different shades of color and tones , plus all the little things that this fish carry around for hiding himself .

    Absolutely love this frame

    As a demo a qiuick and dirty push for your fish , WDYT?

    TFS Andreas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanjeev Aurangabadkar View Post
    Great close-up image with fantastic colours Mike. Super sharp and head-on view. Would love going diving with you and see your photography equipment and technique !
    Thanks Sanjeev, I'd love to take fellow photographers underwater - it's so different to shooting topside and so much fun. Maybe one day I'll win the lottery and arrange a meet up!

    thanks for stopping by

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karen Pleasant View Post
    Really a wonderful closeup up with great details! I envy you and your diving! What a wonderful experience! Even better when you can bring back images like this! The coloring on the ones I've seen have been much more saturated, but you were there.
    Thanks Karen - you are right about the saturation, I think the difference though is they vary a lot. I think you've mentioned diving in PNG before (must be a great place to go to) and in many tropical areas I've noted they seem to have bright oranges and reds.

    unfortunately in the Red Sea, I've not seen those colours, in fact I've got shots of them displaying very plain colours, just sandy shades to blend in, so I have no doubt you are correct with your memories, but this fish was far less colourful

    thanks for commenting

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    Andreas,

    I always appreciate your PP efforts. On this one I think you have pushed things too far though with the contrast. AS I mentioned to Karen, this was not the most colourful specimen ever compared to other locations around the world.

    Out of interest, if I can dig out the original RAW file (it's on an old computer) would you mind if I fired it over to you to see what you could come up with?

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    Mike for sure i went too far with this , always easy to do so . From my viewers POV this fish cries for something like what i did even if this is way away from original , and it is for sure very subjective what i did , this all just happened in my brain .
    You are more then welcome to shoot me the RAW file if you like Mike .

    Cheers Andreas

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    Now that's a face I wouldn't want to wake up to in the middle of the night!
    I like the colours and textures, Mike - and think Andreas' repost has taken it up a notch as the original lacked a bit of punch for me...
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    nice one Mike,love the colors and textures,TFS.

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    Hi Mike -- This is fantastic , LOL at Gabriela's comment on color cast, but brilliant image with riot of colors and a well camouflaged subject . I prefer ur OP . TFS !!!

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    My favorite fish in the ocean...I think somewhere between the original post and Andreas' would work best for me...nicely framed portrait :)

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