Jelly Cloud by Thomas Vignaud

Thursday, 11th October 2007

20 Comments

1. Bradfored Decker Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 6:09 am

   I really like the details. Nice shot

2. janet Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 6:24 am

   I almost want to give them names very nice photo!!

3. Anna Ridley Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 6:58 am

   Wow! What a tremendous photo. Congratulations!

4. Anurag Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 8:09 am

   Just keep on giving this a visual feast Thomas. But again I ask you (Pl. do venture an answer) - Why is the sea so colourful when there is so little light beyond a few meters beneath the surface?!

5. Rasmus Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 8:12 am

   Great photo with beautiful light using your flASH through the jellyfish.
   Can you put your camera in some sort of waterproof container?

6. Thomas Vignaud Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 8:47 am

   Hi and thanks
   Anurag, as I said in the comment of the photo, I use an external strobe : it give the true color of the things back. things ARE colored, but the light is absorb by the water, especially red/orange, so we see it with blue/green dominant.

7. Tuğrul Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

   extraordinary and wonderful photo !!
   thanks for sharing it.

8. andrew Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

   wow, what a vivid colors. Great shot.

9. Lynda Lehmann Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

   Amazing capture, worth the work!

10. TomBrooklyn Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Very pretty. Interesting how you can see the fish innards and spine. Submit to Strobist.

11. kml Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Wow - that cam out really good! Glad you tried something different!

12. David Constable Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    great shot, well done

13. Renee Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    Thanks for sharing thomas!! nice shot!!

14. Ann Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

    Congratulations.A terrific image.

15. Calvin Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    What a great shot!! i love all the bright vivid colors and how you can see the fish’s insides, it’s so cool.Great work.

16. Terry Everson Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 12:13 am

    Stunning!

17. Anurag Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 8:55 am

    Thomas
    Yes I know that, What I ment to ask was that as a marine biologist, why does marine life display such warm red yellow colors when most of the light available is blue. warm colors would appear black in the available light. So what use do these colors would have. Evolution should have just(de)selected them out!

18. Pauline Jones Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 10:22 am

    This is a really interesting picture.

19. Thomas Vignaud Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Anurag,
    ok, I understand what did you ask now

    colors usually comes from chemicals of what animals eat (if you change alimentation of some species, they change the colors. some anelids have”feathers” who are white at the bigning (one kind of alimentation) and orange on the second part (another kind of alimentation)
    or genetic factor.
    so, even if evolution don’t selected colors, there is colors (who can be useless).
    Underwater, there is always some light. even deeper than -300m, shrimps are super red : it is an evolution selection, because shrimps have the colors who is not where they leave. so, they become invisible, exept if you have a red light. so, some fish can really make red light (as a car at night) to find shrimps.
    anyway, there is enought light where people dive, and it is sometimes very usefull : fish really know it’s a bad idea to eat a nudibranch, who is full of colors.
    It can be a sexual attraction (usually on fish, like Thalasoma pavo), a repelent(like nudibranch), something to atract another specie as a prey or a helper.
    but, as I said, sometimes it’s just useless. some fish are becoming red when they have to swim a lot, and so it help to know is there is strong current
    It is very complex, and colors definitivly have a very important role, as odors, sounds, and more humans can’t feel !

20. Anurag Says:
    October 13th, 2007 at 7:18 am

    Thanks Thomas!!

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