Catalina Island Video

[uzun]

I took a trip to Catalina yesterday, and hastily composed a short 2 min video basically just to highlight a nudibranch scene I've been trying to capture for some time now. Too bad I blew the shot when I got the chance, but you can still see what's going on basically.

Conditions were not optimal for video, viz was poor in the shallows and not any sunlight to speak of, so it's not a very good effort but it has an interesting ending if you can stick with it. It's just a few scenes from a pretty good day of diving, hope you like it.

-Roger Uzun

Link to Youtube Catalina Video -

YouTube - Hermi's Fate

 

[pcorliss]

Very cool - thanks for sharing!

 

[robint]

nice job even though vis was so poor. Love the GSB, I can never get them to be still for me! And the closeups of the nudies, wow! I think I would have picked up the last guy and moved him before the navanax got him though. I know, not supposed to do that, but I just love nudies.

robin

 

[RogerAGrimes]

Love nudibranches. What did you do to make them "glow" like that? Natural light, artificial light, post production? They really snap.

 

[robint]

all nudies are really bright and colorful, especially the ones we see in Calif.

robin

 

[uzun]

I use Sunray 2000 video lights, and the kelp is dark so they tend to be somewhat overexposed. It's just strong artificial lights with light colored nudibranchs on a dark background that does it, but in truth they are too strongly lit and I should have used more indirect lighting.