Transparent subjects

Well, it looks kind of like a spaceship with a galaxy in the background, but that's not what I wanted. How should I light a transparent subject like this one?

Any other hints on such subjects?

try moving the strobe out to the side of the subject or above, beam perpindicular to lens, maybe use something like a snout attachment or something you make to block light towards the camera side. Then hopefully you will only catch the light coming from the subject instead of the backscatter/plankton. If the subject is truly transparent (this subject looks blue though) then I would use a diffuser with blue hue, or even try using some video lighting gels over the strobe (much cheaper, $3-5/sheet).

When I get my new strobe I plan on shooting some transparent jellies with my strobe over a gel and cutout so as to block all light between subject and lens. I too am stepping into the transparent world... ahhhhhhhhh

I like your idea, but it does show alot of particles, I turned down my strobe and bracket strobe settings when you have a subject like yours.

If you want to light the jelly subject in the foreground and have the black background, use a high shutter speed and small aperture.

This will control the ambient light and hopefully not light up the particles in the background.

If you're not close enough, you may still get particals in the foreground, so as suggested strobe position should help a lot with this.

damien