Spotted Black Grouper - with variations by goodoleboy
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Description
Captured 8/3/11, at the beautiful Aquarium of the Pacific, in beautiful Long Beach, California.
Original on top, as per usual.
Even with all of the other fish species swimming about, this Spotted Grouper was easy to spot.
Have a nice day.
Comments (5)
Cyve
Great manipulations and fantastic results... Beautiful capture also.
aksirp
this looks great, I like the different post work - superb collage!!
MrsRatbag
What a dapper fish! Wonderful shot and the variations are cool too, especially that last one...
anahata.c
you know, I miss helle's comments in your gallery too! She added real joy and uplift. Hope she'll be back soon...But I still have your other fans to read, and I always read (and agree with) Denise. I understand why she'd pick the last variation as her favorite, but I like all of them the same. You captured the strange, almost staunch essence of the grouper in all your variations. The original is head-on: I don't mean it's a head shot, but that it's a direct shot, a perfectly centered profile, which is right for this staunch fish. Nice light and shade too. You explore pure form in number 2: Mostly black and white (w/ tads of green, yellow and brown). The "threshold" treatment brings out its sheer shape and dots. In fact, it looks like a pencil drawing. 3 seems to take the faint light-streaks of 1, and emphasize them: Like we're viewing it on a strip of damaged film. I love that variation---decay takes over the photo. 4 looks like an inversion, but not entirely. Some subtle stuff going on there---the darker half of the grouper becomes 'neon', because of the luminous nature of his spots. And finally, 5 looks like you're photographing the inner energies of the fish, the currents shooting through his body. More fine variations from you, with a fine original. I have never shot anything inside water, andt it looks hard. You've really explored and come to terms with water shooting, and your variations explore it further...
HopeFadesEternal
Excellent work on the variations of the original. The bottom one is fantastic!