“Cardinal Fish Breeding Eggs” (attempt 2) Project Picture 58/365
Nikon D90 Nikkor 60 mm 1/100 f/16.0 ISO 100
Just a week after I wrote this post on which I photographed a Cardinal Fish “Apogon Imberbis” breeding his eggs.That day I took a side portrait and cut his tail slightly so I wasn´t quite happy with the result, it is a nice picture very clean and in sharp focus, but I would have prefered to take a frontal portrait really showing the eggs. Just a week after I went to the same dive place and my first & main goal was to find the fish again and see if my luck had changed, the problem was that usually the breeding process takes 8 days so most probably the fish was not with eggs in his mouth anymore, furthermore the sea was very rough and with an awful visibility.
I found the cave, I looked inside and there he was, the same fish (or so I think), on the same place AND with the eggs still on his mouth. I was about to cry, a second chance is always nice but with the same individual is something does not happen very often. After taking a couple of shots and guessing which would be his behavior I managed to get this one, a good frontal portrait with the mouth open and full of eggs.
The bad thing here is that due to the visibility the picture is very dirty, and as I was mounting my 60 mm and the fish was inside a cove it was impossible to fill the frame with a Cardinal Fish so the picture is cropped about a 40 % of it original size and missing a bit of focus.
In any case this picture is somehow special for me and I wanted t share it with you, and as the saying goes “the sea is full of fishes”, so I am sure I will have this opportunity again, and if it comes I will be ready for it.
Justo una semana después de escribir este post en el que muestro una fotografía de un pez cardenal “Apogon imberbis” con su boca llena de huevas.Ese día hice un retrato de lado y le corté la cola un poco, asi que no estaba muy contento con el resultado, es una foto agradable, muy limpia y bien enfocada, pero yo hubiera preferido haber sacado un retrato frontal mostrando realmente las huevas. Justo una semana después fui al mismo punto buceo y mi primer y único objetivo era encontrar el pez de nuevo y ver si mi suerte había cambiado, el problema es que generalmente el proceso de incubación tarda 8 días por lo que muy probablemente el pez ya no estaría con los huevos en su boca, ademas el mar estaba muy agitado y con una visibilidad muy mala.
Encontré la cueva, miré en su interior y allí estaba él, el mismo pez (o eso creo), en el mismo lugar Y con las huevas todavía en su boca. Estaba a punto de llorar, una segunda oportunidad siempre es agradable, pero con el mismo individuo es algo que no sucede muy a menudo. Después de hacer un par de disparos e adivinar cual sería su comportamiento me las arreglé para conseguir esta, un buen retrato frontal con la boca abierta y llena de huevas.
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