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 . For submissions
that are published in Advanced Aquarist, the author will receive a $25.00 gift certificate
from one of our participating advertisers.
This
pair of longnose hawkfish (Oxycirrhitus
typus) rarely separate for any length of time. They often
perch together on various rocks and corals in my 500 gallon reef aquarium.
I was lucky to capture them inside one of the swirls of my
yellow Turbinaria coral (Turbinaria reniformis).
The
picture was taken with a digital SLR (Fuji S1 Pro). An auxiliary
flash was used at an aperture of F7.0, a shutter speed of 1/125
second, and an ISO of 320. The lens used was an autofocus 60mm
micro-Nikkor.
