Photography is painting with light, but it’s equally the absence of light. It’s about creating a mood, an emotional response, with the balance of light and shadow; it’s using shadow to draw one’s eye to the light. Technically, this image may be too dark, it’s ceratinly not evenly lit. But that’s the point; what’s aesthetically interesting is rarely what’s technically perfect. Blue Maomao Arch, Poor Knights, new Zealand. Schooling blue maomao (Scorpis violacea) congregate along the sheer walls of the arch, feeding on the plankton rich currents that are entrained and accelerated through between the walls of this long tunnel.
This image was shot in early 2020. I used a Full frame Nikon camera, 20mm Nikon lens, in an Aquatica housing. Although I had a flash (strobe) attached to the camera I chose not to use it for this shot, rely purely in the natural light penetrating the arch.
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