Because of the high ISO and the long exposure, the photos were a little noisy in the fine details, but they were still of interest to National Geographic and other publishers." I varied my ISO and aperture settings between f/5.6 at ISO 6400 and f/3.5 at ISO 2500. Using a wide-angle 17-35mm lens on a Nikon D700 35mm DSLR camera, I was able to obtain sufficient light with a 30 second exposure. To avoid camera shake when tripping the shutter, I used the lock mirror u and “delayed shutter features on my camera. I had no tripod, so I improvised by snuggling the camera into a beach towel placed on a plastic deck chair. This time our captain chose Vaadhoo Island, which has a forested interior and a sandy beach.Īs it grew dark the wave wash lit up with ghostly blue light. We stopped for an evening picnic on the uninhabited side of an island. “I was on a safari boat cruising the islands of Raa Atoll, in the far north of the Maldives archipelago. Marine photographer Doug Perrine shares his experience of photographing bioluminescent plankton in 2010 whilst visiting the Maldives:
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