Jef Driesen

Sure, no problem. My strobe adapter is made from some pvc pipe that happened to fit my YS-110 perfectly. I keep it attached to the strobe with a simple rubber band. The two main loc-line arms contain a solid 8 mm fiber, and the third smaller arm contains multiple small fibers. The loc-line arms are secured to the base with a gardena hose connector. At each tip I attached a short piece of aluminium tube with some tape to keep the light bundle a bit smaller. The YS-110 has 3 small flash tubes, and each fiber is positioned directly in front of a flash tube. The system works very well, but aiming is difficult because the focus light is positioned in the middle and does not pass through the fibers.

One of my favorites is photo of a skeleton shrimp I took during the Belgian photography championship. It took me a lot of patience to first find a subject in a perfect position and then get the lighting right with almost no backscatter (no postprocessing allowed in the shoot-out). I probably spend more than an hour on this shot, but the result was certainly worth it! Nikon D7000 and 105mm macro, backscatter miniflash and snoot, 1/320s @ f/32 The second one is a photo of a nudibranch (Polycera quadrilineata) on a hydroid (Tubularia indivisa). Both species are rather common around spring in the Eastern Scheldt (Netherlands), but I was very lucky to spot them together. Getting them both in focus and positioning the snoot was very challenging because I had very little space to maneuver. Even while nudibranches are not exactly fast moving, this nice composition didn't last very long. Sometimes you just have to lucky to be at the right place at the right time! Nikon D7000 and 60mm macro, Sea & Sea YS-110 alpha with home made fiber optic snoot, 1/320s @ f/22

Yes, that's me.

Hi, I'm Jef Driesen from Belgium. I'm diving mostly in our local freshwater ponds and Zeeland in the Netherlands. And of course the occasional exotic destination abroad. You can see some of my photos on my website: https://aquaphoto.be/ Jef