1st Place Nudibranch
Aleksei Permiakov
“Ribbed“
The Story: During the pandemic me and my wife got stuck in Bali and that was a great opportunity for macro photography. We explored Tulamben and made a series of dives at the Drop Off dive site where we spotted quite a lot of different subjects. Tambja morosa is a relatively big nudi and usually I would shoot it without a wet lens, but I decided to focus more on rhinophores and its amazing texture.
I used Capture one software for post processing. Cropped and mirrored the image. Added sharpness on the rhinophores and made some clean up.
Location: Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
Equipment Used: Nikon D850 Camera, Nikkor 105mm f2.8 VR lens, Nauticam NA-D850 Housing, Nauticam SMC Wet Lens, Backscatter MF-01 Strobe with Snoot
Camera Settings: ISO 125, F22, 1/200 sec
