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Subject: Considered the “Holy Grail” of underwater photography and videography, the Rhinopias is a seldom seen Scorpionfish. The moment the light beams of our video lamps enlightened the odd fish, we knew we struck gold, again! Only two weeks before this discovery we did spot another Rhinopias in the same area (see our previous post). Identification of this particular individual is difficult due to the fact that it bears characteristics of both the Paddleflap Scorpionfish (Rhinopias eschmeyeri) and the Weedy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias frondosa)...based upon all characteristics in this individual (round and oblong pale spots and blotches, branched tentacles above their eyes, a jagged dorsal fin and more than two tentacles on the underside of its lower jaw) we can carefully conclude that the specimen in this underwater videoclip is just as the one we previously spotted in the same area; a Weedy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias frondosa).
Technique: The importance of good video lights is illustrated here. This Rhinopias was without our illumination as green as the Halimeda weeds its was hiding in. The lights revealed the real colours of our subject. Colours that were absorbed by the 25m/82ft high water column that separated our subject from the sunlight.
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Filmed in Mauritius 🇲🇺 using Sola video lights by Light & Motion
🎥 🎬 🎞 by Olivier Van den Broeck
