Wall of Silversides - a photo on Flickriver

            On our dive the other night, visibility was quite low, maybe 2-3' at best to begin. But by the end of the dive it went even lower as thousands of young of the year silversides, each only 3/4-1" long, swarmed around us forming solid mass of fish. The writhing mass of fish totally flumuxed the auto-focus on the camera (not hard actually) but at the same time, made it near impossible for me to keep racking focus in and out to get a good shot.

Here I pulled the video light in close and focussed on the edge of the light, then lifted it a half inch, the fish filled in the space nicely and I had a pre-focused point to shoot at. A number of them turned out quite nice. Harder though was to get good clear shots of their predators, either they were moving terribly fast cutting through the mass  (Adult and Juvenile Bluefish and Striped Bass) or they disappeared in or under  the cloud of silversides with nothing to aim at or to focus on. Awesome, but frustrating at the same time. My dive buddy took his GF back the next night and reported that the activity was almost as heavy that evening too, his GF dove sans hood and was picking tiny sinver sides out of her hair the rest of the night.

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Taken in: United States / Connecticut / Stonington (show map)

Taken on: August 7, 2012

Tags:

Atlantic Silversides

Menidia menidia

Stonington Point

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Sets appears in: • Underwater • Long Island Sound more » • Ocean • Wildlife • 2012 « less

Groups appears in: • Marine biology • VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS: A Prayer for Wild Things more » • Fish - 3 a day! • I LOVE THE OCEAN! • Children of the Ocean « less

Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T3i, f/4.5, 1/400 sec, 100mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS REBEL T3i
Lens:	EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	-1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Macintosh)
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