Leather Coral Against Surface

Blogged by Simon on August 06, 2010 8:00am | Last updated by Simon on August 06, 2010 10:22am | Category: Underwater Photography | Get a Print Get a Print |

Palm Island Leather CoralThis otherwise average photo of Leather Coral (Sarcophyton sp.) makes a great reference. Why? For once i nailed the sunball exposure in manual mode. Water visibility was about 10-12m, depth exactly 6m in tropical blue water at Palm Island, off Townsville. Camera pointing upwards at 45 degree angle with Tokina 10-17mm lens.

I used both YS-250s flashes above the dome port and pointing outwards as fill light for the coral. The flash was set to M-TTL with +0.3EV. Camera settings: Nikon D300, f/14 for 1/100s which is perfect here for the sunball. Post processed for levels and saturation to bring out the colors, but only minimal. This shot is pretty much an “as is” effort which, if you know me, doesn’t happen very often.

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