A while back I thought it might be an idea to experiment with flash photography. Using one flashgun (strobe) I set out in my usual spot. I should have tried this a lot earlier! Although supershallow water has enough light to do without flash, a main problem (for me at least) is to balance harsh white sunlight (from above and from reflections from the white sand below) with the darker subject. By illuminating the subject, this effect evens out. I took probably almost a hundred photos of the Bushy Rainbow Wrack above and this one came out alright! Apart from the Thong Weed framing it, I like the row of Thong Weed ‘buttons’ in the foreground. I held the strobe in my hand for this one, and I used my older strobe, as my newerand more expensive manual one just not fires reliably for some reason (still trying to find out what is going wrong). Below some more strobe experiments. I really hope diving will be allowed soon so I can play around more with the wide angle lens and two strobes.
Beautiful colours. Thank you for sharing
I hope it’s OK to post a link to a little video I just made showing my backyard (above and below water!) in autumn….I still have not sorted how to do my own blog!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yfb6zf0ci1ka98l/Sunlight%2CSaltmarsh%20and%20Seawee…Williamstown%27s%20Covid%20%20Autumn%20…May%202020.m4v?dl=0
nice! interesting to see that some species look very familar and others very different!