Tiny grass squid - a photo on Flickriver

Tiny grass squid

            At the end of the same dive with the flame lobster (previous post), we stopped in the shallows to search for grass squid.

Expectations were low. These squid are tiny - think the size of your pinky fingernail. They are floating in a soup of sargassum bits and pieces, so they are well camouflaged. And to top it all off, we are in shallow water (2-3m) with waves rolling through to slosh this slurry of stuff back and forth. Placing them in the viewfinder is hard but even if you can do that, you still need to get the camera's autofocus to lock on to the right thing. I have plenty of blurry pics and a bunch of sharp pics of seaweed fragments. But all you need is one to work! 

Note, this was shot with ambient light (because we were so shallow). Without strobes, the shutter speed could be raised above 1/250th, which was definitely helpful.

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Taken in: BES Islands / Bonaire / Wanapa (show map)

Taken on: October 27, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/14.0, 1/320 sec, 100mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R5
Lens:	EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Aperture:	f/14.0
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.0 (Macintosh)
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