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Shots taken of a subject between 3 inches and 1 foot (7.5 to 30cm) in size (e.g. large fish or diver head) that dominates the frame - any background is incidental and occupies LESS THAN 50% of frame
Close up of a sea fan (105mm macro lens) using a slow shutter (1/30sec) to pick out the background blue.
Neighbors...
The funny thing is that I didn't notice a little anemone shrimp until much later when I was looking at the picture on a big monitor. Otherwise I would have tried taking a better shot of that cute little beast smile
Lambi posing in the natural reserve of Petite-Terre
eye of puffer and shrimp
Scorpion fish
Sea worm in a nice background.
Remoras
Suckerfish
smooth trunkfish with spotted eagle ray in black and white
Octopus in Marsa Alam, Egypt
Garoupa
found in Lembeh; D200
size comparison
Blue-striped lizard fish. The reflection in the eye reminded me of a picture from the Hubble space telescope
Portrait of a lined butterflyfish (Chaetodon meyeri)
"Mr. Green" Moray eel 105mm
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Classic Colman shrimps couple for me today D200/105 VR
found in Lembeh; D200
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"Alien Face"
Octopus. Got the shot just before he could go camo. Nikon D200.
Octopus
spotted eagle ray
Face to face with a squid, Vieques, P.R.
New experience using filter. The image taken with yellow filter attached to camera and blue filter/gel for the strobe.
Taken with Canon G10
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This photo taken at my last year dive trip to Pulau Weh, Indonesia, by Canon G10 with single strobe.
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found in Lembeh; D200
Dive buddy gets a close up look at a scorpionfish
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