Take a look at the profitable, extremely counseled and better of the opposite featured pictures from our Massive Shot Brilliant and Lovely underwater images competitors!
One of many many superb issues about life underwater is simply how brilliant and vibrant are so lots of the ocean’s residents – shine a strobe on a reef, and it explodes into color.
This concern’s Massive Photographs competitors highlights this cavalcade of color, with every little thing from neon nudibranchs to the delights of the ever present anemonefish.
Our profitable picture by Michael Gallagher, from Australia, options one of many reef ’s most vibrant characters, the parrotfish with an ethereal cleaner shrimp.
He wins a seven-night journey across the British Virgin Islands on the BVI Aggressor, (price $3,495) courtesy of Aggressor
Adventures.
Extremely counseled are Michal Bazala’s joyful cenotes shot, Michal Štros’ placing boxer crab, Nur Tucker’s elegant anthias and Miguel Ramirez’s vibrant emperor shrimp. They obtain a yr’s print and digital subscription to DIVE.
The opposite entries printed in DIVE win a yr’s digital subscription – and plenty of because of everybody who entered!
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WINNER – DIVE’s Massive Shot Brilliant and Lovely
‘Parrotfish & Shrimp’ By Michael Gallagher
A bridled parrotfish and cleaner shrimp within the Saudi Arabian Purple Sea.
Shot with: Canon 5DS with Canon 50mm macro lens, Hugyfot housing with 2 Inon Z-240 strobes; f16, 1/125, ISO 400
HIGHLY COMMENDED
‘Aquatic Autumn’ by Michał Bazała
The place the jungle meets the underworld within the threshold of a Mexican cenote.
Shot with: Nikon D7200, Tokina 10-17 at 10mm, Nauticam housing, Inon Z-330 strobes; f/6.7, 1/125, ISO 560
HIGHLY COMMENDED
‘Boxer Crab’ by Michal Štros
A boxer crab hiding beneath a leaf in Sidem, Bali, Indonesia.
Shot with: Canon 90D, Canon 100mm macro lens with SubSee +5 diopter, Ikelite housing, YS-D3 strobe, Marelux SOFT Lite snoot; f18, 1/125, ISO 200
HIGHLY COMMENDED
‘Surreal World’ by Nur Tucker
A macro double publicity of a flashing anthias within the Purple Sea, Egypt.
Shot with: Classic Helios 44 lens entrance ingredient reversed, Nikon 105mm macro lens, Nikon D500 digital camera, Subal housing, Retra Professional strobes, beam restrictors; f2.8 , 1/1000, ISO 800
HIGHLY COMMENDED
‘Into the Flames’ by Miguel Ramirez
An emperor shrimp camouflaged within the gills of a Spanish dancer, Réunion Island.
Shot with: Nikon D500, Nikon 85mm lens, Hugyfot housing, 2 Inon Z-330 strobes, f11, 1/250, ISO 100
‘You Discovered Me’ by Lauren Wang
A yellow frogfish hiding in a coral in Lembeh Strait.
Shot with: Nikon D850, 105mm Nikon lens, 2 Retra Professional X strobes, Nauticam housing; f/5.0, 1/160, ISO 125
‘Gimme Shelter’ by Michael Gallagher
A pink anemonefish shelters in its closed-up anemone host, Palau, Micronesia.
Shot with: Canon 5D Mark 111, Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens and 1.4x Kenko teleconverter, Hugyfot housing with 2 Inon Z-240 strobes; f16, 1/100, ISO 400
‘Yellow Fusiliers’ by Mehmet Gungen
A faculty of yellowtail fusiliers shot at Batu Rufus, Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
Shot with: Nikon D850, Nikon 28-70mm lens, at 70mm, Nauticam WACP-1port, Retra Professional Max strobes; f/11, 1/10, ISO 50
‘Hidden Jewel’ by Catherine Holmes
A tiny Bargibant’s pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) is seen right here in its gorgonian dwelling, Anilao, Philippines.
Shot with: Nikon D500, 105mm macro lens, Retra Professional strobes; f22, 1/250, ISO 100
‘Feast’ by Michal Štros
Two harlequin shrimp feeding on a starfish, Batu Niti, Bali.
Shot with: Canon 90D, Canon 100mm macro lens, Ikelite housing, YS-D3 strobe, Marelux SOFT Litebsnoot; f20, 1/200, ISO 200
‘Claws’ by Lauren Wang
The notorious American lobster being curious, Colony Seaside, Maine, USA.
Shot with: Nikon D850, Nikon 60mm lens, Nauticam housing, 2 Sea&Sea YS DJ2 strobes f/10, 1/200, ISO 2500
‘Anemone’ by Wayne McWilliams
Inside an anemone. I liked the colors and shapes, Papua New Guinea.
Shot with: Nikon D200, Nikon 60mm macro lens, Nauticam housing, Inon Z-240 strobe; f27, 1/125, ISO 100
‘Dangerous Hair Day’ by Paul Eijkmans
Furry squat lobster taken on the liberty wreck, Tulamben, Indonesia.
Shot with: Nikon Z7, Nikon 105 mmmacro lens; f/45, 1/160, ISO 100
‘Dancing within the Present’ by Michal Štros
Snoot lighting of two delicate white-tufted worms (Protula tubularia) billowing within the present, Kornati Nationwide Park, Croatia.
Shot with: Canon 80D, Canon 60mm macro lens, Ikelite housing, YS-D2 strobe, Retra LSD snoot; f20, 1/125, ISO 125
‘Ribbon Eel Portrait’ by Michael Gallagher
A ribbon eel poses completely in entrance of my underwater digital camera, Mauritius.
Shot with: Canon 5DS, Canon 50mm macro lens, Hugyfot housing, 2 Inon Z-240 strobes; f16, 1/200, ISO 400
‘Yellow Metropolis’ by Paul Eijkmans
Inside a yellow anemone, Bangka Island, Indonesia.
Shot with: Nikon Z7, Nikon 105mm, macro lens; f/32, 1/160, ISO 200
‘I’m Watching You’ by Catherine Holmes
A clownfish peeps out between the tentacles of its anemone dwelling to look at a tiny cleaner shrimp dance round among the many swaying tentacles seeking meals, Dumaguete, Philippines.
Shot with: Olympus EM1 MK11, Olympus 60mm macro lens Inon Z330 strobes; f/13, 1/60, ISO200
‘Solar Burst’ by Jillanne McCarty
This solar coral colony radiates color from the gloomy depths in Anilao, Philippines.
Shot with: Nikon D850, 105mm macro lens, Nauticam housing; f29, 1/250, ISO 100
‘Citrus’ by Morgan Riggs
Nudibranch on a vertical climb up some coral, Bangka Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Shot with: Sony Alpha 7R III, Sony 90mm Macro lens, Nauticam housing, 2 x Sea & Sea YS-01 strobes; f.8, 1/360, ISO 320
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