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hardly ever consciously copy some other photographer's
picture, although I admit to influence, but this is an
exception. I'd been fascinated by Chris Newbert's picture
of an anemone shrimp on some bubble coral in Within
a Rainbowed Sea, and I'd been
looking for the same subject. I found it two-thirds of
the way though a dive in Beqa Lagoon, lower than I really
wanted to be at that point (55 feet), on the part of the
bommie that was sideways to a strong current. Hanging on
with one hand and feeling something like a flag, I
calculated the exposure compensation for the nearly-white
subject, and went the wrong way
(I've since come up for a rule that works even when I'm
narced or rushed -- "Dark down, light up"). So maybe I wasn't fated to make Chris Newbert wannabe images. On another level, maybe all my pictures are Newbert wannabes. I still like this. Nikon F4, 105mm Macro lens, Aquatica Housing, 2 Ikelite AI/n strobes, f/16, Kodak Ektar 100. |