Close Focus Wide Angle

It's such a conundrum for me diving here at Port Hughes with both gorgeous mega and macro photography opportunities. I love big underwater vistas, so almost always I will go wide angle in the hope of capturing the huge schools of scad amid soft coral-adorned pylons.

On occasion I have dived with divers carrying two full DSLR rigs (I'm looking at you, Yorko), but short of my own personal caddy, I think I'll stick with just one for simplicity. Still, I continuously keep missing out on the gorgeous macro life down here.

When I found this beautiful short-tailed nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, on one of the pylons, my frustration was the same as always, leading to the thought, 'next time I'll dive macro'.

Still, all was not lost as this little critter had positioned himself such that I could get my huge dome within a couple of centimetres and capture this image.

This style of image is called 'close focus wide angle', and when a macro subject offers this, it is a wonderful opportunity to show them in the context of their surroundings. Perhaps it's the best of both worlds, keeping the sense of connection between critter and the environment it lives in.

So will I go macro next time I dive Port Hughes jetty? I'm sure I'll consider it, but I'll probably go wide again as always.


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