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These Mado are absolutely everywhere in Sydney Harbour and surroundings, so they’re good predictable schools to work with. This photo is a bit older from a dive at North Head in Sydney, but I remember chasing them in circles with my buddy (in the shot) until this opportunity arose with the sun behind the [...]

Black&White is a recent favourite of mine. More than often i will convert shots to see whether they have good light and end up liking monochrome better than the color version. I used the excellent Silver Efex Pro by Nik Software to modify this photo which is largely pale blue, and used a medium green [...]

A still life scenery in fresh water, photographed at Crystal Creek in Townsville: seagrass, deadwood overgrown with algae and some unidentified fish in the background. There is too much flash hitting the silvery bodied fish, but it doesn’t disturb all that much in this photo.
Note to myself. Definitely improve on photographing schooling fish with [...]

Different take on the bait ball from previous post at Palm Island.
This is really just underneath the surface, which is why the fish appear to glow in the sun, which isn’t a photoshop trick. Strong contrast is always good for monochrome, so I converted this to black&white in Silver Efex Pro, then [...]

Okay, so there is way too much in this photo for me to identify! I am counting four larger snappers, species Spanish Flag but consider this temporary ID until Irene, our blog expert for Spanish Flags, returns from her well deserved holiday in Malaysia.
The reddish snapper in the bottom-right corner is probably a [...]

Schooling Bigeye Snapper I chased over the fallen mast midships at the SS Yongala. You gotta love the yellow tone contrasting with the blue backdrop. These guys are easier to photograph than silvery bodied fish because they don’t reflect as much flashlight, so less of a challenge when positioning your strobes.
I went in [...]

Another shot from the bait ball from Palm Island, which is actually more of a carpet than ball shape. Here, I like how the texture of the undersurface of the water comes out and how in these ultra shallow photos (~1m) you barely need any flash to get good results.
Camera settings: Nikon D300, Tokina [...]

This otherwise average photo of Leather Coral 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 [...]

My SS Yongala photos from the last trip are slowly but surely coming to an end – time to go back and shoot some more I suppose :)
This was shot upwards from the stern, where the trevally roam. I have to admit i failed at getting good schooling photos though i tried a [...]

An older Sydney shot of a starfish , I rediscovered on my hard drive today. For some reason this fell through the cracks earlier on. The green and orange play nicely together and yes, they are real colors.
Nikon D300, Tokina 10-17mm, f/8 for 1/200s in manual mode. Ajusted for levels, saturation and crop.

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