SubscribeA dart in the water
by Dave 'The Longest Way Home'
Every Friday Darren invites someone to be Guest Editor for the day to choose and discuss three or four or four of his images that have previously been not been published on the website. Today’s Guest Editor is Dave from The Longest Way Home, the journey of a guy traveling the world in search of home.
This photograph of a sucker fish really stood out a lot to me. Most images of these underwater creatures are shown with them attached onto something.
Here, Darren has managed to capture the sucker fish in a moment of heightened speed. Looking like a high speed dart the fish is angled acutely and poised for action.
This in itself is what attracted me to the photograph alone. Original work from a different perspective.
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Non-divers might think that the blobs in the image are digital sensor dust that I’ve been too lazy to paint out. They’re actually backscatter, particles in the water which are lit up and reflected by the strobe (underwater flash). It’s a terrilble problem for underwater photographers and ruined the picture I took of a white tip shark on the same trip. To combat and reduce it we tend to use the edges of the strobe to light the subject which helps, but it is quite difficult to avoid, especially in the dark at night or at depth.
In reality I’ll probably paint the backscatter out before the image goes off to a library, but it’s important to me to always be very careful about taking stuff out of images (or adding it in). It’s generally accepted (and required) to remove sensor dust, but in this case, if I do paint it out, the image will be captioned accordingly because in this industry, honesty is everything.