Macro Hippocampus hippocampus and Hippocampus guttulatus

Hippocampus hippocampus and Hippocampus guttulatus · 10:31 AM

The long and short-snouted seahorse at very very low light, but the 90mm does a great job.

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**TER-OR** · 10-01-2019, 07:18 AM

That's a challenging subject, through glass, in the darker conditions these animals prefer. Some of them are really colorful but it's all camouflage of some sort...

**ToddK** · 10-01-2019, 07:40 AM

Nice job photographing these beauties.

K1N8 · 10-01-2019, 08:54 AM

Thank you. I had the camera at waist level, using live view and focus peaking to manage the shallow DoV. The trick with the glass is, to be exactly parallel to it, the front of the lens was basically flat on it.

Post processing in RT was enabling noise reduction, haze removal at 14, wavelet contrast at 27 with levels at 9, edge performance on high, applied to whole luminance range. That compensates very well for the high ISO.

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TER-OR Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Dundee, IL Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 6,699	That's a challenging subject, through glass, in the darker conditions these animals prefer. Some of them are really colorful but it's all camouflage of some sort...

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ToddK Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas Hill Country Photos: Gallery Posts: 11,532	Nice job photographing these beauties.

10-01-2019, 08:54 AM	#4
K1N8 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 242 Original Poster	Thank you. I had the camera at waist level, using live view and focus peaking to manage the shallow DoV. The trick with the glass is, to be exactly parallel to it, the front of the lens was basically flat on it. Post processing in RT was enabling noise reduction, haze removal at 14, wavelet contrast at 27 with levels at 9, edge performance on high, applied to whole luminance range. That compensates very well for the high ISO.