Dived again on one of our new spots yesterday. Tough conditions: huge surge & swell - my computer kept beeping about my ascent rate even when I didn't move! Not great conditions for photography with my meager skills and internal strobe. Maybe these conditions are better with external strobes? Less backscatter?
Anyway, here is our resident (he seems to move within about a 1/2 km area that we know of so far) Potato Cod. I gave up shooting with the internal strobe as I could tell even on the screen that I was getting just too much rubbish in the backgrounds.
Natural light (LOL); 25m depth; greenish water & floaties (looked like little snot balls - it was charming) on most of the site; slightly grey blue water when looking east & up; f2.8; 1/80; ISO 64; attempted panning as fish circled. RAW; changed WB to Daylight in PS; resized. I had a play with changing settings and I can definitely improve this image, but there is just something about showing it pretty much straight out of the camera.
I think he turned out pretty well. Probably won't get hung on the wall, but I think it's good enough to show divers what the front of a Potato Cod with a cutie suckerfish looks like.
All comments and helpful hints appreciated.
Anyway, here is our resident (he seems to move within about a 1/2 km area that we know of so far) Potato Cod. I gave up shooting with the internal strobe as I could tell even on the screen that I was getting just too much rubbish in the backgrounds.
Natural light (LOL); 25m depth; greenish water & floaties (looked like little snot balls - it was charming) on most of the site; slightly grey blue water when looking east & up; f2.8; 1/80; ISO 64; attempted panning as fish circled. RAW; changed WB to Daylight in PS; resized. I had a play with changing settings and I can definitely improve this image, but there is just something about showing it pretty much straight out of the camera.
I think he turned out pretty well. Probably won't get hung on the wall, but I think it's good enough to show divers what the front of a Potato Cod with a cutie suckerfish looks like.
All comments and helpful hints appreciated.
I think it came out well.
