Photographing the jellyfish in the Rhine Channel...
Photographing the jellyfish in the Rhine Channel was a challenging
assignment. Since we don’t have underwater housing for any of our
cameras, I had to get my hands on a vinyl bag with a watertight seal,
which Photo Editor Steve McCrank let me borrow.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get one that was big enough to house the
bigger cameras that we use, so I had to rely on a point-and-shoot
digital camera. Once the two items were together, I went to the
channel and began experimenting with different exposures and flash
outputs until I got the perfect combinationn.
Finally, with everything that I could control in place, I had to
wait for the jellyfish to start swimming around near the surface of
the water, and under the slips. Luckily, a boat came by that stirred
up the water and got the jellyfish swimming. They floated under the
slip, I shot a few frames “using The Force” to guide me -- I could
not see clearly where the jellyfish were under the slip -- and I came
back with the shot you see here.
-- Mark C. Dustin
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