A nice portrait of a Barred Hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella) today. This is another image that honestly at first glance I was about to toss. The positioning isn't as typical as you would think for a fish portrait and the depth of field and the positioning of the focus point ended up giving the photo a fairly soft look. Fortunately, after looking at it a bit, I decided that I really liked the different perspective (and honestly, it ends up doing a good job of drawing attention to those nice iridescent blue spots and lines on its face), and then I thought that perhaps that softer look gives this photo more of a feel of a painting as opposed to a photograph. I still wish I had framed this a little better (the edge of its tail is cropped off) and a tiny bit better focus and eye contact probably would have made it a bit stronger, but all in all, I am really starting to like this shot...

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/250th sec at f/6.3. Image Stabilization on. ISO 400. Ikelite Housing and Port and Ikelite 161 Strobe in TTL Mode. Raw conversion and cropped in Photoshop CS5.

More nudi photos tomorrow, so be sure to check back!!!

- Bill