August 2015 trip report and many pictures.

[jlyle]

Too big to post here. Click on the link.

Cozumel trip report and pictures 2015

 

[ColoDale]

Nice photos. Always good to find pipehorses and pipefish.

 

[ASA400]

I know you use an e-m5 for your photos (as I do). What combination of lenses are you using for your macro images?

 

[jlyle]

I know you use an e-m5 for your photos (as I do). What combination of lenses are you using for your macro images?

A 12-50mm lens set on macro for most of the close work. I also have a wet diopter, CMC-1, for super macro.

 

[drrich2]

The sharpness, rich color & excellent detail in some of the shots is striking. You have a gift for getting 'portrait' facial shots where I'd have a bunch of fish butt photos. Very nice! I was going to mention a couple of favorites but by the end of the lost list had too many favorites to recall. Impressive macros. And with some of the animals, impressive that you got that close with the animal in a good, exposed pose.

Richard.

 

[kaylaclark]

Absolutely amazing pictures, Jim! If I can't be diving, I enjoyed 45 minutes of cyber-diving through your Cozumel trip! Thanks for sharing.

 

[ASA400]

A 12-50mm lens set on macro for most of the close work. I also have a wet diopter, CMC-1, for super macro.

Thanks Jim!

I also have the 12-50mm lens. I recently came back from a trip on the Rocio Del Mar to the Sea of Cortez where there are huge numbers of jawfish and pikeblennies. While I could get photos of them, I felt the macro setting on the 12-50 didn't quite have the "reach" I really needed.

 

[cvchief]

Fantastic.

 

[jlyle]

Thanks Jim!

I also have the 12-50mm lens. I recently came back from a trip on the Rocio Del Mar to the Sea of Cortez where there are huge numbers of jawfish and pikeblennies. While I could get photos of them, I felt the macro setting on the 12-50 didn't quite have the "reach" I really needed.

If you are talking about working distance then the 60 mm lens is great for macro, even better than the 12-50. I hated being limited in what I could shoot and stuck with the 12-50 for nearly everything.

 

[Skittl1321]

Really phenomenal pictures! Thanks for sharing.