Underwater adventures in the Atlantic forest: A day shooting at a very clean mangrove river in Brazil.
October 21, 2015Shooting in rivers is not very easy, since you have to be aware with lots of things:
First check the rapids. Sometimes you can get shelters to protect from the rapids…sometimes, no! Do not attempt to shoot those tiny catfishes in the middle of the white water. You housing thanks you.
We also tryied some night climbing, but the water was not clean enough and the tide was very strong at the time.
After half an hour on a hippie canoe and excited by the clean water, I went to try some mangrove wide angle. Frustrated. Without the sun, that would be a macro day. Put the wide dome to rest and went on my 105mm with a +4 closeup.
Went to try some shrimps, as a warmup for the small fishes.
The whole thing of this trip was to take a picture of a tiny Poecilia that i’ve seen years ago.
The fish is very small and the males are very shy. While the females wades around in small schools, the males swims alone and are difficult to find.
To finish, I went on the mission of taking a nice gobby portrait. This fished never stop and wouldn’t let me take a decent picture. They feed from particles in the substrate, so there’s always lots of suspended sand over their eyes. Missing, were the white mullets and the snooks, that due to the low tide, were into more salty waters.