Blennies of PCB

These are from my rookie weekend in Panama City Beach with the new camera. I had it to all of the photographers who post here with such great results. It sure ain't easy but, I am wanting to learn so please critique.

Thanks,

Michael

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last one and this one is cropped

I liked 3rd the best, at the other two photos, blennies look a bit small in the frame, try to get closer to the animal, it seems to be hard but with some practise you will get it! Nice pics, thank you for sharing

Michael - Your subjects were excellent and the focus looks very good. You did pretty well with the camera! Your photos need more editing than just cropping, however. I played with a couple of them in Photoshop and did some overall adjustments in brightness and contrast, brought up the darker areas a bit, and did some very minor sharpening and color saturation. Just a little very basic editing stuff, and your images really sparkled.

And Ana is right - get as close as you can. With small skittish fish, take your first photo at a safe distance, then slowly move closer for each shot. Sometimes the little fish seem fascinated to see themselves in the flat port, and it's almost like the "deer in the headlights" thing where they just freeze. That's my theory anyway.

And your first photos are a heck of a lot better than my first ones were!

Jim

I agree..nice shots. I would just crop with the blenny in the center and make some minor contrast adjustments. Otherwise, very nice...a hundred times better than my first pictures.

P.S. where were you diving in PCB?

Jimbo, I would love to see what someone who knows how to use photoshop to edit pictures could do to any of these shots.

Divedoc, we were diving with Hydro Space and most of these were taken on Bridge Span 14.

Thanks for the comments, as always advise from this forum is great so keep it a coming.

Regards,

Michael

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I agree with jimbo, this could be an usefull tip: many fishes like to see themselves at the port, like if it were a mirror. When you find a fish getting closer to your camera and viewing itself on the port, take that chance and shot, you can get good macro and portraits this way