Again, a great day in August in Catalina. Had some excellent conditions, but wasn’t quite clicking with my photos, so to speak. No strobes this day. I got some pics of a full grown Leopard Shark, a nice Bat Ray shot and a few good kelp and fish shots.
The shark shot could have been great but I had an exposure queued up from a shallower shot, when I saw him I just took two shots, then tried to adjust, but he kept coming right up to the camera and my face, teeth and all, while I was working my camera controls. I Totally missed the mouth and teeth shot. Dang. I had to apply numerous adjustment levels to bring around the best second shot, levels, curves, more levels and curves with areas masked out. Lots of masking in the shadow areas so I could push any lighter areas. But in the end the shot is just too underexposed be useful. However sometimes I’ll take photos like that and go “digital art” on them with Photoshop’s Art Filters, like the one from this gallery shown here.
Same story on the bat ray photo from this session.
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