First of all, I would like to say thank you
to underwater photography master, Yoshi Hirata, for leading me to this Coconut
Octopus.
It's
my first time to see an octopus staying in a glass bottle. At first, by instinct,
I positioned my two strobes facing toward the bottle straightly. I was so
naive thinking the light would only illuminate the octopus. In fact, the bottle
lip was totally overexposed by this strobe positioning.
After
few shots, I found out it didn't work out and then realized that the bottle is translucent.
I stretched the strobe arms and placed two strobes on the both sides of the
bottle to light up the octopus staying in the middle of the bottle. Even
though the bottle lip is very dark by this setting, I like this kind of output
compares to overexposure.
After
this shooting experience, I always try this strobe positioning when I want to
take pictures of creatures staying in translucent subjects, like below, the
goby in the bottle and the shrimp in the tunicate.
