Hi again, Here is my best shot of a Pygmy Seahorse (not sure of the ID...may be a Hippocampus denise, Akos?). Shot at the Spiral Corner reef near Wakatobi, Sulawesi, Indonesia. As with the Hawkfish just posted in the Wildlife forum (hint hint), this one would benefit from a distant blue water background, but as this was my first trip with a dSLR underwater, I was working hard on a bunch of other things (like trying to get sharp photos), and once in a while looking around to see if my wife and daughter and the rest of the divers had disappeared while I had my face pressed to the back of the housing ;-)
These guys were really small (1/2 to 5/8 inch long overall) so DOF was extremely shallow. No tripod and I was suspended in the water column, so I was pretty happy to get a shot as sharp as this.
I would have liked a better head angle and some eye contact but I don't know how to pish fish.
I have played around a bit with replacing the background visible through the lattice of the gorgonian with various gradients of blue and blue-green, and they look okay, but somehow for this guy, it feels a bit like cheating.
Canon Rebel XT in an Ikelite housing with Ikelite DS125 and DS50 strobes in E-TTL mode, Canon 60mm EF-S lens, AV mode, ISO 200, 1/200s, f/16.
Comments and critiques are welcome and much appreciated. Thanks for looking!
Cheers!
Bruce







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