Welcome to the Photo Gallery Spotlight. Each
month we'll showcase a particularly nice aquarium photograph, taking the time to discuss
the identification and husbandry of the animal pictured as well as information relating to
the technical details of how the photo was taken. Readers are encouraged to send
images (and details on the organisms pictured, as well as the details of how they captured
the shot) they would like to submit for possible inclusion in this feature to terry@advancedaquarist.com .
If your submission is selected for use in the magazine, you will
receive an item from the reefs.org or advancedaquarist.com store equal
to $25 or less.
Tesselated
Blenny underneath the HI-576A Offshore Platform. These
blennies make their homes in dead barnacle shells and can almost
always
be found on the offshore platforms. This fish would make an
ideal
aquarium specimen.
Shot with the Fuji S2pro using the Nikkor 70-180 Micro Zoom with a +1
diopter.
The camera was set to manual f16 @ 1/125th Dual flashes and side
lighting were used to create the dramatic effect.
For underwater supermacro (this fish is 1/2" across) sometimes it
is
necessary to use manual focus - this was one of those dives.
Surge and
low light conditions meant that I had to hold the manual focus knob
with
one hand, and snap the photo with the other hand - all while hovering
underneath an offshore platform in 400 feet of water.
