Jelly 724-1csm

Some months ago I spent several days in Monterey, California. I've always

enjoyed aquariums and the one in Monterey is spectacular. It has several

jellyfish tanks that present a wonderful underwater ballet. The extremely

low light conditions present a bit of a challenge and remove much of the

color that is present in the animals if you can restore the light. My jellyfish

images received a lot of post-processing in an effort to pull out the colors

hidden by the low light conditions and lost in the very high ISO used. The

images may seem very artificial -- and to a certain extent that is true. But

using the post processing as a means of pulling out color that was present

in the underlying image (not adding another color) helped me see not only

the structure of these lovely creatures, but the wonderful patterns they

present.