Saturday, 19th April 2008
Colorful
by Thomas Vignaud
This sea slug, Cuthona caerulea, is one of my favorite because of these wonderful colors.
Equipment: Canon EOS 400D, Canon 60mm macro USM, 1/160s, F/6.3
Thomas Vignaud
Hi, I'm a marine biology student in France, and I'm actually working on sharks. I'm professional diver, and I really love underwater photography, in scuba diving and in freediving.
Website: Flickr
Colorful by Thomas Vignaud was photo of the day on Saturday, 19th April 2008. It is tagged Macro, Underwater. You can leave a comment below.
25 Comments
a.
This is a really great photograph! I love the individual colours! The blackness behind the slug is intriguing as well!
Chris
Faberge take a few tips!
Ahmed Sharif
colourful indeed!!
Anurag
Wonderful Lighting. Thomas, do you do significant amount of Post-processing? or is this spotlighting effect done while shooting?
Thomas Vignaud
Hi and Thanks,
Anurag, There is almost no postpro exept croping (this is between 10 and 15mm long)
You have imagine here is another part of the red algae up, where was my strobe. the lighting was partially absorbed by the algae in some part of the photo (dark parts) but not on the sea slug.
And, sea slugs usually have a very reflecting white body as here, so we often had this kind of effect when they are on dark things like here : if I wanted the algae to be well exposed, the sea slug would be too much (and is already a bit too much in some parts actually).
Rosita
Wow! very nice…..
Paul
Excellent image!
Craig Wilson
Amazing colours from such a small animal! One of the best macro images I have seen in a long while due to the unique subject. Very well done sir!
Pauline Jones
Beautiful; I love sea slugs (Actually I love most natural things) Thanks Thomas.
Malta Photography
Nice slug and the colors are very well defined. Great job.
mike
I would love to se this on a side view
Lynda Lehmann
Fantastic shot of a fantastic creature! Good luck with your pursuits!
Buffy
smart man
Marie Dunphy Harding
It looks to me like individual bugs atop a slug.
I’ve never seen anything like this!
Incredible Nature. Thanks.
Jan
This beautiful creature needs a better name than slug, or we need to redefine slug because of this magnificent color.
Pieter -sAner- van der Horst
Beautiful. Great colors, unusual subject.
Srirama Raja
Great shot.
justfotoju
unusual beauty
Tom
Strange and facinating
Su
A shot of something most of us will never see, thanks
Sue Gagnon
Interesting, interesting, interesting photograph here. Neat too. Thanks for the perspective!! Such beauty in our dear Earth to behold!
mike
Wow, he is colorful.
Su
This remains a very clever shot and so colourful I love it.
renee
excellent shot thomas, congrats
renee
also, its so amazing what things you capture and can share to people who never seen such things.