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Inside a Jellyfish - Abstract

nobody@flickr.com (DiGitALGoLD) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:17:07 -0700

Jellyfish - Brown Sea Nettle - San Francisco Aquarium, California

Hello Everyone... happy weekend! I had a crazy week and really didn't have any time for Flickr :(

The San Francisco Aquarium was one of my first stops while on a business trip to California. I had been wanting to shoot these Sea Nettles for a really long time. I immediately made it down to the jellyfish area and started takings pics. I began by using aperature priority mode and setting the f-stop to 4.0 keeping my camera at ISO200. At these settings the shutter speed was way too slow to get a crispy capture (1sec+). I increased the ISO in small increments hoping that it would help but I was at the high end of the ISO spectrum (noisy) and the shutter speed was still way too slow. I then switched the camera mode from A-priority to Manual mode and set the settings to f/6.3, 1/80, and ISO1000. I took a bunch of shots (which were all a bit underexposed). 1/80 of a second was fast enough to freeze the action of the jellyfish and yield a crispy photo with lots of detail. I then corrected the photos in photoshop by increasing the exposure of the raw images.

Camera Data from this shot
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8
F Stop: f/6.3
Shutter: 1/80
ISO: 1000

Jellyfish

nobody@flickr.com (DiGitALGoLD) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:14:59 -0700

DiGitALGoLD posted a photo:

Brown Sea Nettle Jellyfish at San Francisco Aquarium, California

nobody@flickr.com (DiGitALGoLD) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:34:44 -0700

DiGitALGoLD posted a photo:

Jellyfish - Brown Sea Nettle - San Francisco Aquarium, California

Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8
F Stop: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/80
ISO: 1000