Gliding Down

Thu 20
Jul
2006

Photographer: Tom F. Chandra

This Octopus cyanea, we encountered at “The Mall”-Manado. I hope the picture managed to give the true impression of it gliding down

UserCamera: Olympus C-4000
Location: North Sulawesi
Strobe: Built-in Flash
Taxonomy: Cephalopods

EXIFCamera make: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD
Camera model: C4100Z,C4000Z
Date: 31 March 2006
Time: 12:50:18
Exposure Time: 1/160
Aperture: f/3.5
Exposure Bias: 0.00
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 9.1 mm
Exposure Program: Manual
Metering Mode: Pattern
Light Source: unknown
Software: v575g-78

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Score: 3.35 (17 votes)

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2 Responses to “Gliding Down”

Carl Gennaro says:
July 20th, 2006 at 22:33:00
Amazing how they blend into the background
Pandu Sariyadi says:
July 23rd, 2006 at 22:39:46
The problem with shooting octopus n squid is they tend to blend with the background.

I found it better if you can shoot them sideways.. so you can have the blue / black sea as background.

Cool shot though. I rarely get those octopus outside their hole.