Coral Composition

Blogged by Simon on November 26, 2009 4:53pm | Last updated by Simon on April 19, 2010 11:50am | Category: Underwater Photography | Get a Print Get a Print |

Coral CompositionThis piece of coral was an extremely lucky find towards the end of a steep wall dive at Wakatobi. Not just are there several differently colored coral species here, they also nicely stand out against the background. So far I have identified two pieces of leather coral, the (Acropora sp.) at the top, and I’m not sure about what species the red sea fan is.

The shot was taken with the 10.5mm fisheye lens and the overal area covered is no larger than 1sqm. It does look bigger than that, but that’s merely because I got really close to everything. The reef itself is also not ball shaped, that’s an illusion added through the 10.5mm fisheye lens, but it works very well for this kind of photo.

Unfortunately my flash was positioned wrong and hit the scene full frontal, so I had to remove some backscatter with a clone stamp in the blue water column. All colors in the reef are natural and brought out by the use of flash, with only minimal saturation adjustment during post processing with Aperture.

Camera settings: f/16 (against the sun), 1/60s, ISO 200

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