Honeycomb Coral

Blogged by Simon on November 26, 2009 8:55am | Last updated by Simon on April 19, 2010 11:47am | Category: Underwater Photography

Honeycomb Coral (Favites abdita)On our dive at Kollo Soha Beach, Wakatobi, I came across a huge, ball shaped area in 15m depth, covered in identical small coral polyps, with a surface of several square meters wide. While this large coral “blob” looked cool enough from afar, I was definitely on the wrong lens, and since I had set up the camera for macro I went for an extreme close up shot of the coral pattern instead, which turned out quite interesting.

After some searching and image comparison online, my best guess is the species (Favites abdita), commonly known as Honeycomb Coral. If you are reading this and know something about coral species, I’d love to hear from you.

The photo was taken less than half a meter away from the subject with the Nikon 60mm lens, at f/22, 1/60s, with ISO 200. I applied some minor color corrections and level adjustments to remove a cyan color cast.

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