Chris Underwater
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A 4 week diving trip to Bali, diving all around the island: Nusa Penida, Padangbai, Candidasa, Tulamben, Puri Jati, Pemuteran, Secret Bay.
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Wow! That's awesome.
Can you give us some details about your rig (camera, lens, lights etc). In particular I'm very interested to know how you can get this kind of magnification while retaining so large depth of field for those macro shots.
Also, how on earth you get these creatures (eg frogfish) moving? The ones I've seen seem like statues.
Thanks and congratulations for your work!
Thanks! Camera is my good old Sony RX100Mk3, with two stacked Inon UCL165 wetlenses for the macro shots, and a single video light for closeup. Wideangle is ambient light only.
I'd say the depth of field with my setup is pretty shallow; I have to be at exactly the right distance (3-5cm), and if I or the critter move a tiny little bit I have to readjust distance to keep focus.
Yeah I know that problem. One solution (composition, not technical) is to try to get the things you wanna have in focus on the same focal plane. So for example frontal shots of nudis to get both rhinophores in focus, side shot of a tiny frogfish to get the whole frogfish in focus. This depends on the subject's position and is not always possible of course.I have several pictures with one rhinophore of a nudie or one eye of let's say a shrimp in focus while the other one is not!