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Thanks for your reply, very helpful, I will answer some of your comments below:
Almass wrote:
It depends on which direction the cameras club are. Are we talking oceanographic or amateur?
Not a bunch of oceanographic folks will look at this, I don't think. Just a bunch of "photographers" like us.
Almass wrote:
They might ask such questions:
1- Usually jellyfish are swimming side ways to oblique or vertically with the coupolle upwards. Is your picture rotated or flipped?
This is "as it was", these swim in this orientation, it was one of the things Nancy found interesting.
Almass wrote:
2- Plankton in sea water is much smaller particles and part of the habitat. The size of plankton in the image is quite large in comparison to the jelly fish......has the picture been scaled amd cropped?
3- Sharpness is critical for such pictures especially if shot in an aquarium. Quite good low noise at ISO400 for a Nikon 1 v3. Did the pic loose sharpness as cropped and/or scaled? The judges will take note of that.
I agree, and no crop or scaling has been done at all.
Almass wrote:
4- In reality jellyfish needs some lighting for luminescence and glow. Here the background is pitch black. Re-toning the background might avoid judges inquisitive eyes.
All the lighting was from the top of the tank, as well as any ambient light from the room. I am considering a number of things for the background, including the possibility of a less black, black.
Almass wrote:
5- Why the main jelly fish is bluish and not a paler blue for it's companions.
The simple, and honest answer, is that it IS bluer. Not sure how much this is because of the lighting or just that this particular species has different color variants. I have not researched yet, but from seeing the other pictures taken I believe it is the latter. In fact on the one on the right I de-saturated it a bit to have it more closely match the color of the one on the left. It is actually a fair bit more orange.
Almass wrote:
With all due respect to photographers who beleive that fauna/flora pictures should not be manipulated. The reality is most of them are. In case you are submitting to win, you might consider the following:
- There is field for HP sharpening the main jellyfish.
- Scaling down and bluring the picture right jellyfish to give dimensions and depth to the pic.
- Cleaning up the brown spots of the main jellyfish
- Either bluring the plankton or introducing new transparentish plnakton with a speckles brush.
- Tinting very light blue the companions.
- Enlarging the picture size to add more black all around so the picture can breathe as it is too tight.
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We are certainly in agreement on "manipulation", it is always a choice remembering exactly what we "saw" vs. what we intended. Ansel Adams is a great example of this. Interesting suggestions, We may give some a try. I did some micro-contrast adjustments on the main jelly to sharpen things up a bit, but Nancy got annoyed when, as she said "It looks like Broccoli", so I have to be a bit careful on that front.
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