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A LongSpad Bullhead. Click here To experience the image of full size. Picture: Soren Scarbi |
The combination of work with hobbies can be a risky effort. Soren Scarbi, a photo journalist and emotional fly fishermen, photography – their profession – and fishing – their hobbies – tried for years to keep separate. But essentially, both the world collided. The result was the name of a long -term, ongoing project scaled upThe purpose of which is to document the fish with the level of expansion that we usually do not see. Scarbi took time to chat with me about her series, providing insight into the project and the complex process behind it.
“We consider fish to be somewhat dull in this part of the world. But the fish are very colorful”
Scarbi often experiences fishing and thinking how beautiful it is. Other people did not get this when he would tell them, however. “We consider fish to be somewhat dull in this part of the world. But the fish is very colorful as you can see, even in Scandinavia,” he explained. In addition, most people come across the fish only and in supermarkets, which are always colorless. Seeing the fish alive is a completely different experience, and he wanted to find a way to show the beauty to others while fishing.
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A common dragnet. Click here To experience the image of full size. Photo: Soren Scarbi |
when she saw Microorganism series Pictures of insect by Levon Bis, this was a significant turn. Scarbi decided that he wanted to do something similar with fish by combining hundreds of images taken with a high-resolution camera to create Uber-high-resolution photos. From the beginning, he knew that he would need money. “If I am going to take this right, I think I am thinking because I am only focusing on it,” he said. So he reached a museum to cooperate, and he was eager to participate. It took time to get funding, but it eventually came.
While the idea of putting a picture of the fish is simple at the inscribed value, it is actually quite complex. “I came with one idea after another and dug it because it did not work,” Scarbi explained. While most fish are colored while surviving, they lose the color very quickly when they die. So you have a very small window to work. Scarbi says that cod is the worst, as it will be very dark in less than 10 minutes. They started working with a taxidermist, and together they came to know that the baby oil would prolong the time when he had to take a picture of the sample before the color of the color.
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A woman trout. Click here To experience the image of full size. Photo: Soren Scarbi |
Subsequently, Scarbi said he had to find out how to manage the camera setup. Their process involves a combination of focus stacking and panoramic stitching to maximize the level of expansion. But it presented its own set of problems. “It is really, really installing a camera vertically and then moving it and maintaining the same distance to the subject in all ways. There is no gear for this,” he said. He was shaking a friend to his frustrations, who said, “Can’t you move the fish?” It was a lightbull moment, and he attracted the idea of his mid-renovation kitchen drywall, eventually a moving table created for the project.
Prakash was the next barrier. Scarbi tried to use continuous light but said that the exposure time becomes too long. He explained that the image he had created by a male three-spindled stickback took a total of 40 minutes, in which each exposure lived for 15 seconds. Every time a loud motorcycle or large truck crossed its studio, they got nervous, because they were sure that it would shake the camera or table with the fish and ruin the image. Flash, then, is a necessity, but it should be accurate flash that fire continuously every time.
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A male three-moved stickback. Click here To experience the image of full size. Photo: Soren Scarbi |
Their lighting setup is relatively simple, which has a light under the glass, on which the fish is finished and a light is up at an angle of 45 degrees. However, the excessive reflective surface of the baby oil covered with oil introduces challenges with light. So, Scarbi adds polarization filters to everything, including both lights and camera lenses.
Finding an ideal polarization for lights was another moment of creative problem-solution. Eventually, Scarbi realized that the filter is polarized from inside in the TFT display used in TVS, and he could buy packs of filters for big TVs directly from China for cheap. Those filters then go in front of the softbox, and when someone needs to be replaced, it is not a large cost to replace it.
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A garfish. Click here To experience the image of full size. Photo: Soren Scarbi |
The studio setup is not the end of challenges, either. Scarbi ends with 120 and 440 individual images for each fish. He goes through each raw file before starting the sewing process, and then spends the files in a wider time retuching at 200% or 300% after it is stitched together. For example, the image he created is 52,500 pixels long, it took 80 hours in Photoshop. Each image has a weight of dust to remove, as well as to spread the wings along the edges of glass pieces and keep the fish in position.
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This uncontrolled image shows how much work is involved in the retaching process. Last image can be seen here, Photo: Soren Scarbi |
When scaled up The project has been going on since 2019, Scarbi is far from work. He is currently working in his greatest phase of grant and planning to build a caravan to become a mobile studio. It includes a camera stand made in a vehicle rather than using a trippai.
Caravan Studio will enable her to go where there are fish, and each person connects with more people to cure stories with fish. He is going to switch to a phase a camera system from Fujifilm GFX 50s, and is using helicon software for stacking images instead of Photoshop. He says that those changes should make the process something easier and faster.
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A snake pipefish. Click here To experience the image of full size. Photo: Soren Scarbi |
Beyond the technical side of things, Scabby says that there are also concerns related to protection and morality. Eventually, the fish does not alive when it takes pictures to them. He was recently given an opportunity to put a picture of European Sprat, which is spatial for Denmark. While he was honored, the fish is incredibly rare, so they turned down it. He said, “It would be crazy to say that” we want you to be aware of the wild tiger and that’s why we have shot one to show you, “he said.
“What I am trying to do with pictures, showing people showing what you risk losing.”
Scarbi says one of the reasons in this project is so important for conservation reasons. “I don’t know what I am, if I am a fly fisher, photographer or both or I am really an environmentalist,” they say. No matter what he is, he is using images to increase awareness and helps to focus on the unexpected beauty of some fish. “What I am trying to do with pictures, showing people showing what you risk losing.”
We are not able to show the images of Scarbi on full resolution, so if you want to see these fish in their glory, make sure that Go to their websiteThere, you will be able to zoom on remarkable levels, highlighting the magnificent details on each fish.
