So when you are in the situation when you do not have adequate lighting you can always edit your digital photograph to make it lighter and warmer which will have the main subject more defined. Because I have reduced the blue and increase the magenta the crab on the right is clearer. You get a better image of him and he’s now the main subject, where as before you looked at both of them and weren’t sure which one was the main subject.
Next time, John can hold a lamp light onto the crabs to give a warmer light- not to close, perhaps a meter or so away, depending on how strong the light is. You don’t need strong light on the crabs to shoot them well, you just need a soft light coming from the front because they are small and you are photographing a small area. If you do this, you’ll see a dramatic difference.
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