UPY Black and white - Highly Commended
Martyn Guess
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UPY Black and white - Highly Commended
'Waking from a dream'
Martyn Guess
From previous dives on this site I knew that there were quite a few pink skunk anemone fish. I wanted to take an image with my manual focus Trioplan lens ( not very easy to use at the best of times -let alone underwater) in order to create the beautiful soft blurred bokeh. The image was taken with an open aperture of F2.8 and the light from the strobes reduced to the absolute minimum with the use of opaque filters. With a moving subject and a manual focus lens I set the camera to 3 frames per second and simply held the shutter down and pushed the camera towards the subject to attain focus whilst shooting. The depth of field with this lens is minute and most of the images taken were deleted for being too out of focus. I think the B&W conversion works well with the soft tones.
Judge's comment: Black and white is traditionally used by underwater photographers for wide angle photos. But this image confirms how the textures of a macro image are equally suited to the genre. - Alex Mustard
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