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[aic007]

Geoff, excellent shots, where were you in the one which looks like your swimming under a pier with the 1000's of glass fish?

 

[Geoff_H]

Geoff, excellent shots, where were you in the one which looks like your swimming under a pier with the 1000's of glass fish?

Thanks That is a photo of my buddy swimming along the companionway of the Fujikawa-maru in Truk lagoon last year. The soft coral photo above it was taken on the mast of the Fujikawa Maru on the same dive.

That is the single most memorable dive I've ever done, and the feeling at the end of the dive was the closest I've ever come to being immersed in a state of bliss.

The sun was shining above, the water was a tropical 29 degrees, and I was hovering at 5m on a safety stop watching the glittering array of marine life twist, shimmer and sparkle in the dazzling sunlight. Jacks patrolled the sides, baitfish exploded in their thousands as blue finned travelly hunted them by twisting up the mast. A bit further down some marble rays fluttered gracefully along the sand.

The colour and movement and exurbance of the marine life will live with me forever, and it's one of the few times I've turned a three minute optional safety stop into another half an hour of diving.

 

[aic007]

Nice, So many great places to see. I try to get to someplace different every year, gotta add Truk to the list.

 

[gustele]

While diving at our normal depth of 20 - 25 meters my buddy and I saw a white shimmering beneath us. We went further down and found this sailboat sitting upright on the sand. And because of the current it looks as if the boat is still in the race. The depth is 43 meter. The boat apparently sank during the Sami Sail event in Curacao one week earlier and was recovered one week later. This is "being in the right place at the right time".

 

[gustele]

I am a member of Stimana, the organization that works on a regular basis on archeological wrecks in the harbor of Curacao. The SS Mediator sank in 1884 after it was hit by another ship. We are trying to conserve the ship and organize guided dives on the ship on Sunday mornings. One of my tasks is to document the condition of the ship by taking pictures on a regular basis.
During guided dives we show the guests the view from a few meters in front of the bow towards the ship. To us it looks as the famous view of the Titanic except that the Mediator is even older than the Titanic.

On the day that I took this picture the visibility was remarkably good and I was shooting pictures of the bow when the Tarpon came by. Normally already a memorable view the Tarpon made it even better.

 

[Larry C]

This picture was taken 2 months after I got my camera, and I think it was my first dive with my little Olympus strobe. It's at Pescadero Rock in Carmel, one of my favorite dive sites, and I think it's the first picture I was ever really proud of.

 

[cdiver2]

I know what you mean, I have always felt that having "the eye" is probably better than being a techincal wiz. I still consider my self a hack photographer.

I think you need the eye and the tec Wiz, I am learning from her.

 

[cdiver2]

Oh my! What a difference!! Sasscuba, what is your secret Photoshop process?

Cdiver, your wife does indeed have a good eye. Did you set up the camera for her to shoot the right edge blurry or was that an accident? Or did you make that kind of effect in photoshop. In any case I like the way it looks. Thinking how a judge in one of my camera club's competitions might think, compositionally, they would say to clone out the anemones on the sides because they are distracting. I tend to leave stuff like that in a photo because I think it looks more realistic and in nature competitions, you aren't allowed to photoshop the image except for minor color or contrast issues.

Again, I don't think I would have thought to shoot that coral (or whatever that is in your wife's photo) in the way that she did. To really think about the angle of the white. Why doesn't she shoot herself?

My wife uses a Nikons V, so I put it all together, set focus distance Fstop shutter speed then she is on her own until its time to take the film out.
She says she doe's not want to learn how to take photos just take them (don't bother me with the facts). Whats out of focus is because the depth of field would not cover it all.

The second shot is an Anemone just opening up, again the edges are below the white area and not covered by depth of field.

 

[fairybasslet]

She says she doe's not want to learn how to take photos just take them (don't bother me with the facts).

I understand perfectly, believe it or not.

Whats out of focus is because the depth of field would not cover it all.

The second shot is an Anemone just opening up, again the edges are below the white area and not covered by depth of field.

Gotcha.

 

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