Pipefish

Blogged by Simon on August 16, 2010 12:29pm | Last updated by Simon on August 18, 2010 8:10am | Category: Underwater Photography | Get a Print Get a Print |

PipefishAnother semi-regular find in Chowder Bay: Pipefish (Syngnathinae), usually buried in the muck and easier to spot at night than during the day. Camera settings: Nikon D300, 60mm macro, f/29 for 1/125s, ISO 200.

I didn’t like the color and lighting of the background, so I burnt it with a brush, then used the sponge tool in Photoshop to completely desaturate it to the point where only the Pipefish was still in full color and everything else was grey tones.

Next, I went into Color Efex Pro to colorize the entire image using an orange tone picked off the subject and a low opacity. This gives the image the overal same tone, while preserving the ‘pop’ in the subject. Sharpened in Photoshop with an unsharp mask, and colors are boosted with the vibrancy slider in Aperture.

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