Crabs by Moonlight | National Geographic

this is the third night that we’ve been
up all night shooting craps so these
guys are really tired the crabs are this
turns out to have been a huge spot you
know the first time we came out here to
shoot it never ranked it was the dry
season the whole time which led to a
really important part of the story but
it wasn’t what we had originally
expected which happens all the time in
this kind of filmmaking but here we are
night three and they’re still crabs the
whole island is going off on this spawn
when the rains finally did come this
whole Beach has been going this region
of the island has just been flooded with
crabs
all right we have a picture
here
it is nice how that life is mimicking
the the feel of a moon like a bright
moon am i then we’re trying to get is a
close-up of the small legs they have
inside the the area where they store the
eggs that pushes out the eggs to
disperse them into the water
you think of all these crabs it would be
an easy shot to get but it’s actually
really tough you know we’re shooting at
night with a lot of light and shadow and
we need the crab at a particular angle
to really expose this really cool
biological feature
so despite a lot of crabs it’s really
hard for mark
to find
the perfect crab and the perfect angle
with the perfect life
you