So far on Underwater Wednesday I’ve shown fish. Having encounters with larger critters is exciting. But taking time and slowing down to look for the small things can be rewarding. Here is an arrow crab hiding in a yellow crinoid (also called sea lilly or feather stars).

Fellow photographer Ed Heaton has a fun expresion that he shares with students in his workshops. “When do you shoot a vertical?  Why, right after you shoot a horizontal.”

The moral of the story here is that some subjects (or the mood you are try to convey) lend themselves better to one or the other. But many subjects can be sucssfully shot in either format.

The shooting metadata is the same for both images:

D200 with 105 macro
1/100 sec @ f/9 ISO 100
Matrix, Manual, 2 strobes normal sync

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