Best UW Photo?

[scottitheduck]

You can still access the ring on the s90 housing. It's the little knob on the left side.

Drew.... awesome shot buddy. Gotta love how those colors are just so true right under the surface. Doubler! I miss those barrel sponges. Shaka, you are a legend. Hope we can dive together this week bro.... bad news is I'm out of Large Shirts. Want a water bottle instead?

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[5thDayDvr]

Here are a couple of Devils from Koloa Landing, great shore dive, Nikon D40, Ike housing, available light with majic filter, and my favorite, 2 harlequin shrimp eating what is left of a starfish, Garden Eel Cove, Kona, with thanks to Jeff of JDL for the great find!

Aloha

 

[Black_3000psi]

Here's one of my newest favorites. I shot it last month with my Canon S-70. I wasn't expecting much from this photo when I first looked at it in the camera screen. It really came alive after I did a color correction. I guess I got lucky! I hope you like it.

I call it: "Atomic Turtle"

shaka thats a killer shot

 

[friscuba]

Here's one of my favorites:

Took it on a manta ray night dive. Canon G9, internal strobe. The "real" photo had a background of rocks and other diver's fins. I blacked out everything but the squid.

Here's another squid. Once again, blacked out everything but the squid.

 

[vanisleboy]

Nice images Steve!

 

[Shaka Doug]

Those are sharp Steve. How do you black out the backgrounds? SHAKA!!

 

[acooper]

<envy>That last one of the single squid is simply gorgeous. Blacking out the background was the right choice. I obviously need to do the manta dive again.</envy>

 

[friscuba]

Thanks guys.

Doug, I just used photoshop and the paintbrush with black chosen as the color and started filling in. When you want to work very close to the animal, you enlarge it to the point where you're pretty much trying to guess which pixel is animal or background and paint the background pixels, when you bring it back to size it generally looks good.

I wish the squid were regulars at the dive. We started seeing them off and one a couple years back. They were around for a few weeks earlier this spring again.