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Underwater Photo Contest | Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)

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Shots that have been digitally edited outside of the camera for creative reasons (not brightness/contrast etc.) in a program like PhotoShop
Focus Stacking. 5 images shot with different focus distance blended into a single image. The originals have about 1 row of eggs in focus at this magnification (microscope mode on TG-5)
Hanging on - Crab (Inachus sp) on Snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis) - Original picture taken in Dunmanus Bay, Ireland.
"False Hunters" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. These are False Killer Whales and hunt together as a pod. This image is placing them as if they are hunting above the surface.
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Ray mouth
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Freediving - STA
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"Coconut Octopus House" the coconut octopus often uses bottles and other pieces of trash as a home.
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"Manta Terrarium" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work
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Very creative composition, where did you get flying mini mantas and how did you put them in there?
"At the Base of the Tree" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. Hairy Squat Lobsters are found at the base of giant sponges. This image is referencing that, but on trees.
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Living in the Spiral World/Tomato Anemonefish/Ishigaki, Okinawa,Japan, Canon 5D MarkIII, 100mm Lens,Sea&Sea housing,Inon Z240*2, F16,1/160,ISO200
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Loggerhead Turtle Sequence 15 shots into 1
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clownfish hiding at softcoral
Leafy SeaDragon
By manipulation I mean an off-camera double exposure as I liked the body made fuzzy by the trioplan lens and the eye of the second shot nice in focus...
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Wobbegong shark, double exposure, Raja Ampat.
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Lifeguard on duty
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Nevermore.. tough beach entry.
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Hawaiian White Spotted Toby
Because the blue water is overrated that is why...
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Seahorses during childbirth
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Squid in Black, Veracruz México
In a cave, under half daylight particals glare like stars; top right, out of the cave under sun light plants seem like lightning
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