This is a shot I took last Sunday on a dive off Sam’s boat. Although the seas cooperated, the vis was low so I was glad I had decided to shoot close up stuff with the 60mm macro. During rig assembly the morning of the dive I could not get the twin strobes working (will troubleshoot this later) but could get a single strobe to function. The plan was two drift dives off the third reef south of Port Everglades and Sam and Ryan were hunting bugs. They were not about to wait around for a loitering camera bug. In order to keep up I have developed a strategy over the years I call “click and kick.”
On the second dive I come across a huge green moray. Unfortunately he was ensconced in a hole in the reef ledge being cleaned by some gobys and there was no way I was going to disturb him or tease him out of the hole. He let the camera port get close but there was no way I could get full strobe coverage because the port filled most of the hole and the reef blocked the strobe. I also had to set the distance by focus on a brighter portion of the reef outside of the hole and hope I guessed right (trying to focus on the eel in low light had the lens hunting all over the place). I snapped off about 6 shots and then had to go hunt down my buddies who had moved down the reef and out of sight.
I thought I was going have to trash the shots but a couple showed promise when I downloaded them this week. With the unusual lighting and a some Photoshop work I thought the following image was kind of interesting and I wanted to share it.
—Bob
On the second dive I come across a huge green moray. Unfortunately he was ensconced in a hole in the reef ledge being cleaned by some gobys and there was no way I was going to disturb him or tease him out of the hole. He let the camera port get close but there was no way I could get full strobe coverage because the port filled most of the hole and the reef blocked the strobe. I also had to set the distance by focus on a brighter portion of the reef outside of the hole and hope I guessed right (trying to focus on the eel in low light had the lens hunting all over the place). I snapped off about 6 shots and then had to go hunt down my buddies who had moved down the reef and out of sight.
I thought I was going have to trash the shots but a couple showed promise when I downloaded them this week. With the unusual lighting and a some Photoshop work I thought the following image was kind of interesting and I wanted to share it.
—Bob
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