I shot this last month at the Backscatter DSO in Little Cayman. It is from an Olympus OM-1 in an AOI housing, Backscatter Hybrid for lights. Wide was Lumix 8mm, Macro was m.Zukio 90mm. Would love any advice on how to make it better (besides my prize reef shark being a little out of focus...ugh). Lesson learned so far ... video is hard ... especially macro video!! So much on the cutting room floor.

I like the editing idea. The blenny watching what happens around it. At least that is how I understood it. Nice. I love videos that are not just simple slideshows of nice pictures.

In general, macro images seem very soft to me, maybe too much. The focus almost always seems ok to me. On these little creatures we should always be careful to have the focus on the head, and preferably on the eyes when they have them.

Maybe it depends on the aperture used? Here you really need F11 and beyond. And if you are at 50/60p you must be at least at 1/100 or 1/125 shutter speed.

If you want to get a darker background, raise the shutter even more. The 180-degree rule is not so important underwater.

Well done.

Nicely done, especially for a first video. You are correct, macro video is challenging, which is largely why I keep trying to get better at it. I probably shoot 5 or 6 hours of video to get a good 20 minutes or so of usable material. Lots of material on the cutting room floor as you say.

@Davide DB I was shooting 60P and 1/125. I THINK I was F/8 and also auto ISO. So you feel a bump to F/11 would sharpen it? The focus was the hardest part because of the thin DOF and the fact that the little suckers kept moving in an out of the focus plane. I tried to get a focus. Then as they came closer re-focus. The sideways movement was easiest of course. For the head-on shots, I was trying manual focus on the green slug and trying to time the focus changes as he got closer but that was hit or miss. The black one I backed off distance wise so the DOF was a little deeper. And of course every breath in changed my buoyancy and that made it hard to keep steady too. I'm retooling from OM-1 to Sony a7rV right now so will have to work all this out again next trip.