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Geoff, excellent shots, where were you in the one which looks like your swimming under a pier with the 1000's of glass fish?
I know what you mean, I have always felt that having "the eye" is probably better than being a techincal wiz. I still consider my self a hack photographer.
Oh my! What a difference!! Sasscuba, what is your secret Photoshop process?
Cdiver, your wife does indeed have a good eye. Did you set up the camera for her to shoot the right edge blurry or was that an accident? Or did you make that kind of effect in photoshop. In any case I like the way it looks. Thinking how a judge in one of my camera club's competitions might think, compositionally, they would say to clone out the anemones on the sides because they are distracting. I tend to leave stuff like that in a photo because I think it looks more realistic and in nature competitions, you aren't allowed to photoshop the image except for minor color or contrast issues.
Again, I don't think I would have thought to shoot that coral (or whatever that is in your wife's photo) in the way that she did. To really think about the angle of the white. Why doesn't she shoot herself?
I understand perfectly, believe it or not.She says she doe's not want to learn how to take photos just take them (don't bother me with the facts).
Gotcha.Whats out of focus is because the depth of field would not cover it all.
The second shot is an Anemone just opening up, again the edges are below the white area and not covered by depth of field.