UW Photo Challenge

2024 Underwater Photo

Category: Macro (Second Place)

Name: Sunbong Jung

Title: I say O, you say O.

Introduction:

I feel really great pleasure when I focus on tiny eyes, dots and antennas through the viewfinder. On this dive I spent several minutes following this juvenile puffer filefish and waiting for it to come into my frame. It was a challenge to shoot the perfect moment with a perfect sideview of the fish and the red curtain fully spread on my frame. I almost deleted this shot because I thought the white backscatter right in front of the fish's mouth ruined the entire photo. Luckily, my lovely w

Camera: Canon 5DM4

Aperture:F9

Shutter: 1/80 sec