Not been around much lately due to demotivation! This weather has really buggered up my diving - it is the worst season I have ever known. Been doing some work on pics from my Bali trip in May as a substitute. Here's one of striped eel catfish, each one about 4" long. Shoaling pics are often disappointing because you chop off so many fish with the frame edge and it looks naff. Well that has happened here but it doesn't seem to bother me so much, perhaps due to the eye contact.
Canon 5D, 100mm macro, two flashguns, f14 @ 1/100. iso 100. Depth 25m
UNderwater always produces some very different pictures, this is one and very well executed indeed.
T
Posted by Malcolm Muir on July 19, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Hi Jim
This is really nice - the stripes and the barbels make such a strong pattern that the actual shapes of the individual fish cease to be an issue. I think that it needs the clear space at the LHS as well. I know what you mean about the problems of taking shoaling fish - there always sems to be a cut off tail or disembodied head however you crop. Weather seems to be picking up a wee bit recently (albeit still wet) - had an idyllic day in Scapa just last week with sun, blue sky and 20m vis - not bad for Scotland.
Really beautiful and I can appreciate the technical difficulties of taking this whilst breathing at the same time. I actually think that the composition aids it a lot as you have them all looking into space. Brilliant.
i've tried and failed to get a good image of these, i knew of a local shoal in the red sea last year when i was there, they lived in a barrrel, and would come out first thing in the morning.
the symetry of the eyes and barbels make this image, you've done well to get close and have them all swimming in the same direction and manage to keep dof spot on. an excellent and hard to get image.
mark.
PS 20 metres vis in scotland......bugger me.....why am i wasting time down here in the softy south.
Posted by Andy Astbury on July 20, 2007 at 4:00 AM
Just an awesome and very captivating image Jim - stunning
Nice comp and works really well as an image. It's certainly a different world for those that can and do access it, but not all come back with pics as good as this.
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13 repliesCanon 5D, 100mm macro, two flashguns, f14 @ 1/100. iso 100. Depth 25m
Regards
I'd love to dive and try this one day in my life.
T
This is really nice - the stripes and the barbels make such a strong pattern that the actual shapes of the individual fish cease to be an issue. I think that it needs the clear space at the LHS as well. I know what you mean about the problems of taking shoaling fish - there always sems to be a cut off tail or disembodied head however you crop. Weather seems to be picking up a wee bit recently (albeit still wet) - had an idyllic day in Scapa just last week with sun, blue sky and 20m vis - not bad for Scotland.
Cheers
Malcolm
It really works for me too, superb work.
Best wishes
Phil
superb jim,
i've tried and failed to get a good image of these, i knew of a local shoal in the red sea last year when i was there, they lived in a barrrel, and would come out first thing in the morning.
the symetry of the eyes and barbels make this image, you've done well to get close and have them all swimming in the same direction and manage to keep dof spot on. an excellent and hard to get image.
mark.
PS 20 metres vis in scotland......bugger me.....why am i wasting time down here in the softy south.
Mark