Parting shot

Martin Edge · Issue 30, May/Jun 2006 · pp. 63–64

Products mentioned: Nikon D100, 105mm macro lens, MK1 ringflash, Photoshop CS2

Parting shot Do you have a nice shot with a short story behind it? If so e mail me and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com I took this shot last October in the sea directly off the hypermarket in down-town Manado. I used a Nikon D100 with a 105 macro lens and my MK 1 ringflash. I was shooting RAW files. Half way through the dive my camera began to ‘play up’. I had taken 6 or 7 pictures of a lion fish, sitting on the bottom. My attempts were to capture an abstract of the fins and body patterns. My flash went off but nothing appeared in my LCD. I pressed the shutter at random and the camera was locked out. Strange one for me. This had never happened before with my Nikon D100. I turned it off and on repeatedly. I repeated the process with my ringflash on/off switch. I composed and shot anything and everything I saw over a 2 minute period in an attempt to get my kit to w…