Dolphins - and a few more friends from today

[MMM]

I have seen dolphins in the water but usually they are pretty far away. Today Flipper decided to come take a better look at me...they are AWESOME to watch in the water in the wild! It was a good day - also 2 eagle rays on the wall (wrong settings and photo wasn't great), a sea horse, a few turtles, and some little critters that I like to shoot...

 

[amoses]

Nice!! I have yet to see dolphins in the wild. Very nice pics also!

 

[nwflyboy]

Outstanding!

 

[Streydog]

Jealous, did you do a SI at Palancar today?

 

[Cozdreamer]

great pictures! love the last one of the flamingo tongue showing the "foot" so well! (if that's what you call it). on what dive site were you fortunate to encounter the dolphin? I'm so jealous!
thanks for sharing

 

[MMM]

Jealous, did you do a SI at Palancar today?

Yep.

great pictures! love the one of the flamingo tongue showing the "foot" so well! (if that's what you call it)
thanks for sharing

I had to turn upside down for that one as I recall...

 

[kss1dvr]

Nice!!!

Wish we had been there.

 

[diver0008]

I have seen dolphins in the water but usually they are pretty far away. Today Flipper decided to come take a better look at me...they are AWESOME to watch in the water in the wild! It was a good day - also 2 eagle rays on the wall (wrong settings and photo wasn't great), a sea horse, a few turtles, and some little critters that I like to shoot...View attachment 401511 View attachment 401512View attachment 401513 View attachment 401514View attachment 401515 View attachment 401516

Very nice.

Can you speak a little about the photographic techniques and equipment that you used?

I am considering moving up from my GoPro type setup and am curious about what is involved to capture such images.

 

[MMM]

I have been through a lot of cameras and am currently shooting with an Olympus OM5II (or something like that) in a Nauticam housing. I have a 12-50 Olympus lens in a Nauticam port which allows me to easily switch between wide angle and macro. I used the wide angle for the dolphin and macro for the sea horse. Then I have a nauticam flip dipoter attached to the housing which I used for the blennies, the flamingo tongue, the shrimp and the Christmas Tree worms. And one Sea and Sea YS-01 strobe. I plan to get another strobe which would have probably improved my dolphin photo had I had one...

 

[diver0008]

I have been through a lot of cameras and am currently shooting with an Olympus OM5II (or something like that) in a Nauticam housing. I have a 12-50 Olympus lens in a Nauticam port which allows me to easily switch between wide angle and macro. I used the wide angle for the dolphin and macro for the sea horse. Then I have a nauticam flip dipoter attached to the housing which I used for the blennies, the flamingo tongue, the shrimp and the Christmas Tree worms. And one Sea and Sea YS-01 strobe. I plan to get another strobe which would have probably improved my dolphin photo had I had one...

Thank-you.

I suppose that you adjusting the various camera settings manually. Can you talk a little about this. Do you have to change settings often? How much time does it take you to set up for a shot? Are there settings that you can use generally for medium or close up shots? I have often heard of calibrating white balance. Do you do this?