Another batch from Egypt

And another Batch of pics from my last trip to Egypt in March. All taken with a Canon S40 in a WP-DC300 housing with an Ikelite DS-125 with TTL Sensor. All pics taken as RAW in "P" mode. Converted with Adobe Photoshop Raw Converter, mostly with 11750 Kelvin and +100 Tint. Postprocessing in Photoshop.

I hope to get a little more response this time.

First: Portrait of a scorpiofish

Next: Portrait of a blue dotted stingray

A well camouflaged Sole:

I still didn't mastered to get rid of the cyan without getting to red, and get a natural Sand color.

Another pair of Anemonfishes.

Should I do something abot the "cyan belts" or should i keep them this way?

A big swarm of lovley Red Sea Basslets

and as last picture of this batch, the eggs of a spanish dancer:

Simon

I believe there's a lighting problem with the flounder that causes the lower right to be fine and the rest to go pink. That said, I prefer pinkish sand to yellow/green sand so I think you did OK. To correct it I believe you need to apply a split correction. I'd leave the bands on the anemonefish but would increase the blue to fight the yellow overall cast. That's a preference, though. The real question is where's the spanish dancer?

Thanks for your tip Craig.

Do you have a tip how to improve the lighting while shooting?

About the Spanish Dancer. After the eggs a laid you normaly don't find the Animal by her eggs.

Simon

I was hoping you went back at night and found it! Maybe it was this one (warning: video).

I'm not sure what caused it. Perhaps the strobe was misaimed and there was a great deal of ambient light to even out the brightness. You may be able to confirm that by checking your exposure settings. If the strobe was misaimed but the aperture were wide open (and you were shallow) that would explain it. I'm not accustomed to seeing a distinct red shift through the frame like that. Maybe others could help. I think it's minor, though. You could probably generate a mask out of the red information, then use the mask to reduce the red on the high side. Depends on whether it bothers you.

Great Video! No I wasn't lucky enough to see one of them until now.

Simon

They need to be on your list. Very beautiful and big! My video was from the Red Sea coming back in from the Brothers. We saw two virtually identical ones on that dive.

Simon. A point on composition: you need to get lower and shoot up at the subject, or at least close to the same level. Generally, photos that looks down at the top of the heads of creatures are not that interesting.

Herb

They are on my list! Right after Whaleshark, Manta and MolaMola

Simon

Herb,

i try this allready, but it is difficult with fishes lying on the ground ;-)

But I have to tell this myself before every dive or I use the more cobvenient way ;-)

Simon

Herb,

 

i try this allready, but it is difficult with fishes lying on the ground ;-)

But I have to tell this myself before every dive or I use the more cobvenient way ;-)

 

Simon

You can get ground level to a flounder :-)

Here is an Eyed Flounder in Florida....

I think there is still sand in my wetsuit...

I like the Anemonefish as they are, but again the angle is a little dull. I find that sometimes we all take images that are 'convient', rather than difficult to get. This especially happens if you are diving with a non-photog buddy and you feel pressured to keep moving. It is nice to be by yourself and have the time to compose the image as you like.

M

Great pic!

You are right when we spend a lot of mony on our equipment and the trip we should take our time to do good compositions and shouldn't let us get distracted by our covinience or "speed divers".

Simon