Polar Bears in Okinawa? Surely my eyes were deceiving me? How could the image be lying to me, the playback image on my DSLR couldn’t lie, could it?
Dragging the shutter of a camera to create specific effects is something I use a lot in Ocean and surf photography.
As with all waves they come in sets. A noticeable lull would then be followed by a “Holy Moly” session when the size of the waves would again have me questioning my choice of shooting location.
Macro lighting diffusion is a pathway that many a macro photographer will tell is fraught with confusion, consternation, and frustration. This can be confounded even more especially when photographing subjects with greater levels of reflective qualities, beetles, and certain flying insects.
Blue Banded Bees are an exquisitely colored species of Bee that calls Okinawa home. By day one may see a flash of Cyan as the diminutive pollinator travel from flower to flower in their search for nectar.
Again, knowing the behavioral aspects of your subjects, and in that aspect, I focus more on their typical modes of self-defense.