Wonderful photo, but how do you actually take it in the tide pools? Do you hold your camera under water and use auto focus? I know sometimes they are in an aquarium, so I assume you are shooting through the glass. Or, is this all part of your magic? :-)
Love the species name! Artemesia. Goddess of? I only know it’s Latin for sages. Or is it a reference to the Huntress : Artemis? She’s a beauty for sure!
During the last several years I've been lucky to be using an Olympus Tough point-and-shoot camera -- which can be submerged! (I'm still surprised by this every time I use it.) Anyway, yes, most of these photos are taken with the camera under water and using auto focus.
The viewing screen on the back of the camera is helpful if you can see it when framing the shot (for evaluating what's in view and whether it's in focus), but there are other times when I can't see it and I just take a bunch of photos and hope for the best. Digital photography has certainly changed my risk-taking (when I can't tell if I have a good shot or not) and I'm sure has increased the chances that I'll come up with something (in situations when I wouldn't have even tried before if I had been using film!).
Before using this underwater camera, I did take photos of tidepool animals with a camera above the water, but this little waterproof camera has really changed what's possible, and the quality of the photos is much better when taken under water.
Sometimes the water in a tidepool isn't deep enough to submerge the camera. In that case it's still worth shooting from above the water, but sometimes the camera has issues with focusing (and reflections) in that situation.
Good question about "artemisia"! I've wondered about the origin, too. I've read the original description of this anemone, but the text doesn't reveal the reason for the name.
I've referred to the "Goddess of the Wilderness" in a previous post: https://bodegahead.blogspot.com/2018/02/goddess-of-wilderness.html
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Wonderful photo, but how do you actually take it in the tide pools? Do you hold your camera under water and use auto focus? I know sometimes they are in an aquarium, so I assume you are shooting through the glass. Or, is this all part of your magic? :-)
Love the species name! Artemesia. Goddess of?
I only know it’s Latin for sages. Or is it a reference to the
Huntress : Artemis? She’s a beauty for sure!
Hi, Bill!
During the last several years I've been lucky to be using an Olympus Tough point-and-shoot camera -- which can be submerged! (I'm still surprised by this every time I use it.) Anyway, yes, most of these photos are taken with the camera under water and using auto focus.
The viewing screen on the back of the camera is helpful if you can see it when framing the shot (for evaluating what's in view and whether it's in focus), but there are other times when I can't see it and I just take a bunch of photos and hope for the best. Digital photography has certainly changed my risk-taking (when I can't tell if I have a good shot or not) and I'm sure has increased the chances that I'll come up with something (in situations when I wouldn't have even tried before if I had been using film!).
Before using this underwater camera, I did take photos of tidepool animals with a camera above the water, but this little waterproof camera has really changed what's possible, and the quality of the photos is much better when taken under water.
Sometimes the water in a tidepool isn't deep enough to submerge the camera. In that case it's still worth shooting from above the water, but sometimes the camera has issues with focusing (and reflections) in that situation.
Jackie
Good question about "artemisia"! I've wondered about the origin, too. I've read the original description of this anemone, but the text doesn't reveal the reason for the name.
I've referred to the "Goddess of the Wilderness" in a previous post:
https://bodegahead.blogspot.com/2018/02/goddess-of-wilderness.html
But sadly I'm not sure of the etymology.
Jackie
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