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18th April 2012, 01:56 AM
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18th April 2012, 02:24 AM
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Re: Jellyfish - C&C please!
#3 is my favorite capture. I like to see everything trailing below the body, rather than clumped up and hidden behind it like #1 & #2. #4 gives an interesting twisted mess also...I like it.
I don't think the flecks are distracting at all, they give it a realism as if you were actually there.
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18th April 2012, 08:39 AM
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Re: Jellyfish - C&C please!
Hi Kim,
Great captures - the technical term for the specks is 'backscatter'. They are bits of dirt and detritus that get lit by a flash. One way to minimize this is by using a strobe above and to the left/right of the lens. You can also direct it to use edge lighting - which reduces the amount of light being bounced.
In underwater photography circles backscatter is seen as a 'bad thing', although this is very much a matter of taste. In the turbid waters of the UK it can get very distracting (and frustrating) as my shot of a common lobster (taken at 12m off the South Coast of England) shows.
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