Fish face shots

[Kraken de Mabini]

[Troporobo]

Cool idea!  If you’re issuing a request / challenge, here’s my favorite 

[Mark Don]

Here is a recent one, TG6 M52 Air

[JS1221]

Here’s mine. This one kept swimming into my flat port so I guess he wanted his picture taken.

[dhaas]

[dhaas]

[Troporobo]

@dhaas I love the three sharks on the sand!  

Here's another from me:

 

 

[dhaas]

Here's a few more grabbed from many dive trips over the years since beginning shooting digital around 2001 (after years of film shooting.)

One well known underwater photographer's words stuck with me several decades ago in a seminar I was lucky to attend (in 1990 I think) and we all shot FILM! You had to bring your BEST 10-20 slides for "review" !!!!!  A bit intimidating but it was actually very beneficial to learn how to "see" like your camera / lens does.

He said   the most valuable thing the magazine he shot numerous stories for gave him was time in the water.  I've subscribed to that over many years and nothing can replace it.

I often tell folks how many pool hours I've logged checking out lenses, strobes, and practicing techniques etc. so my trips could be productive. Basically hedging my bets to get pics I was happy with.......

Many trips I've used what some would consider "low level gear" as it's all I owned or could afford but it was great fun no matter what !!!!

Get out there and enjoy our underwater world 🙂

 

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by dhaas

[Steen N]

Love fish faces😀

Here´s a few from Denmark

[Steen N]

Here´s a few more. Still from Denmark

[RichN]

Only have the cropped up version for my profile pic on this computer.. But a fish face non the less.. 🤣

[dhaas]

Incredible parrotfish pic Rich !!!

[RichN]

27 minutes ago, dhaas said:

Incredible parrotfish pic Rich !!!

thanks.. 

Enjoying the moment he/she was.... 

[Kraken de Mabini]

Wow!  What a great collection of fish portraits!  
What lens(es) would you recommend for fish face "portraits"?

[Mark Don]

 A nice Titan Trigger fish in Koh Has November 23 - TG6, Air M52 lens

[Kraken de Mabini]

Great Titan Tigger fish shot!  My dive buddy went too close to a Tigger fish incubating her eggs, she chased him away and bit him in the butt!

[Mark Don]

12 minutes ago, Kraken de Mabini said:

Great Titan Tigger fish shot!  My dive buddy went too close to a Tigger fish incubating her eggs, she chased him away and bit him in the butt!

In the early to mid 90's there was one at White Rock Koh Tao called Trevor who would regularly take chunks out of divers fins and on occasions legs, when he died he was replaced by Tyson who was even more aggressive and would knock masks off etc. I got chased a few times

I may have the names the wrong way round as it was 30 years ago and Koh Tao was a very different island back then to now although still a PADI factory 

[Gudge]

Here's a few of my favourite fish face shots.

Edited December 28, 2023 by Gudge
Added another photos

[scubadiggy]

some of my favourite shots 🙂 

[Architeuthis]

Here two fish portraits from 2023 from tiny fish:

Red Sea, Mangrove Bay, September 2023, Townsend's sabertooth (Plagiotremus townsendi). A7R5, Sony 90mm macro & SMC1, 1/200s, f/14, ISO200, 2*Z330.

 

 

Red Sea, Gubal Island, June 2023, Bluebelly Blenny (Alloblennius pictus). A7R5, Sony 90mm macro & SMC1, 1/200s, f/16, ISO100, 2*Z330.

 

Wolfgang

Edited December 28, 2023 by Architeuthis

[Pomacentridae]

Here is my entry, my favorite damselfish photo that captures their fiery and beautiful personality.

 

Speckled Damselfish (Pomacentrus bankanensis)

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by Pomacentridae

[Pomacentridae]

Another one for cuteness.

 

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)

Female Parrotfish (Scarus sp.)

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by Pomacentridae

[fruehaufsteher2]

Three from the last two months.

 

Note the nurseshark upper left that looks like a …. In German it‘s „Molch“

[RickMo]

 

Fun thread!  I think this is a dwarf zebra lionfish.  OM-1, 12-40, Banda Sea.

 

 

 

 

[Tony F]

Short Tailed Pipefish in the Philippines.