My best sunball, blue corner, palau

An anemonefish aerating eggs, with partner patrolling above.

RAW conversion only, using BreezeBrowser, with no adjustments. Out of all of the converters I tried (C1, Adobe, DPP, BB), BB did the best job with the sunball . I was at 60' or so, and the water was not so calm, which i think helped to break up the searing white sun blob...

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16-35mm @ 16mm

1/200 sec, f/20

Mode: Manual

Metering: Evaluative

ISO: 100

AF mode: AI Servo AF

Drive: Single frame shooting

White balance: Auto

Flash: Off

File size: 14.9MB

Image size: 3328 x 4992

Color matrix 1: sRGB natural-looking hue and chroma [em][shot in RAW, so this doesn't matter][/em]

Color space: sRGB [em][shot in RAW, so this doesn't matter][/em]

Saturation: Normal

Contrast: 0

Sharpness level: 0

Tone: Normal

Custom Functions:

CFn 2: No exposure without CF card

CFn 4: Shutter release: AE lock; AE button: AF

CFn 8: Top LCD panel: ISO, Back LCD panel: Remaining shots

CFn 18: Hold Assist button for registered AF point

Here's another sunball that came out fairly well:

Beautiful shots, Eric!

Very nice, Eric. Fantastic clarity and DOF.

The anemonefish shot doesn't work for me (although the sunburst is excellent).

But I really love the jellyfish shot. It is totally gorgeous.

Alex

Great shots, my favourite is also the jellyfish. I think there is too much negative space on the anemonefish photo, but it is still a great shot.

Luiz

yeah, the point was to illustrate the sunball. i would have cropped it out and presented it alone, but it's better in context.

but i like the photo for behavior stuff (the anemonefish are tending to and protecting the eggs).

As a general comment, I should add that when I comment on Eric's images I judge them by rather harsher criteria than other photographers' work!

Eric, I think that the anemonefish shot would work well with your macro shots of similar - maybe you could develop a photo essay around them?

Alex