Belize Aggressor III

     One more time, probably pushing it a little.

scottyb:

awesome!!! ...... ahhhhh, to be able to see what you cannot see!!! the structure, detail, complexity, beauty of each tunicate is amazing! thanks!

an aside: would you say the white areas are pigment, luminescence, ...?

My first thought was backflash from my stobes on a reflective surface but now you have me thinking.

good point. perhaps most of those surfaces are convex, which would lead to tiny backflashes, tinier than they are appearing?

Fish do not see reds the way we do but much else is the same; stealth and camouflage is everything.

 

The fishes' version also make more sense to me in terms of the biology. . .

 

If you want the natural 'fish view' don't use your flash, which is both adding more light AND especially adding RED that the water has filtered out.

I'll take the full color version anyday but do prefer natural looking colors to an overkill of the DisneyChrome effect. I guess I#d go for something between the two.

QUOTE from previous thread:-

Lionfish are the benchmark for this subject - Flambouyant and ornate with their vibrant colour schemes but in blue monochrome they are almost invisible to other fish when not moving.

It is difficult for us to imagine this fully as our brain still interprets red even though in reality the water has filtered it out. Your camera however will only see the truth. Shots using ambient light at depth are exactly as it appears to fish.

They have never seen Red in its glory, and interpret this as green through shades of brown to black. Lionfish can adjust the frequency of red to suit their immediate environs.

Of course - Cephalopod's are masters of this camouflage technique!