Bioluminescence

Blogged by Simon on May 19, 2010 10:56am | Last updated by Simon on May 19, 2010 10:56am | Category: Underwater Photography | Get a Print Get a Print |

Comb JellyfishLong time no post! For those of you who don’t know me, we just had a little baby boy so diving wasn’t high on my priority list in the past few weeks. What I am doing however is finally working on all that stock photography I shot over the past year and still haven’t published and spending more time in Photoshop brushing up images.

Here we’ve got another Comb Jelly (Ctenophora) I photographed on a Chowder Bay night dive in March. This one is underexposed on purpose and I have played with saturation and definition to bring out the bioluminescent display along the lateral lines of the animal. The background is burned in Photoshop using level adjustments and the foreground is brushed up with a dodge brush and a saturation adjustment layer. I would have loved to get the exposure right in the water, but at the point where the background is really dark enough there wasn’t enough of the Jelly left to see. If you have done shots of bioluminescent macro life, I would love to hear from you and what camera settings you used.

For this photo we have: Nikon D300, Tokina 35mm macro, f/14 for 1/125s, ISO 200. Post processed for saturation, levels, rotation and crop.

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