Well I too my new camera on my first proper dive trip, and just got back... looking through the results I see a number of improvements - forcing the G9 to f8 for most macro shots up'ed the ISO too much which has left me with some dissappointing shots.....
On the other hand I found setting the C2 function to manual focus at 10cm and forced flash with a small aperature was very convinient for quickly getting reasonable shots of small quick things that would have scurried away otherwise.
I see most G9 users have strobe(s) and an expensive housing, so hopefully this will balance out the images in this section as these are shot on a low end rig, just the Canon housing and no strobe. All the macro stuff is shot aperture-priority at F8 unless otherwise stated. the EXIF info should be preserved so you can go in and see the shutter speed/aperture/ISO settings if you are interested.
First up it's a turtle, shot in RAW and re white-balanced in Photoshop, no other post-processing
Next one of my favourite critters, a baby orang-utan crab shown next to a bit of fuzz.... really impressive camoflague and thanks to Capt Mike for spotting it! This photo is just cropped
Next the ubiquitous Nemo, this one showing his teeth, again cropped:
Some Barracuda at Blue Corner, f2.8, 1/100th sec at ISO 80. Manual white balanced in Photoshop from the RAW image
A couple of pretty flatworms (I think)
A Napolean Wrasse at Blue Corner, f2.8, 1/250th sec ISO-80. Again RAW and WB manually set in Photoshop.
Back to macro, this was a sunset dive to see the mandarinfish come out to play - both these are internal flash and cropped down but with no other processing (I forgot to turn the RAW mode back on for this dive - doh)
"Bumblebee" mandarinfish
A pretty couple
Another turtle, you can't avoid them in Palau! Note the remora-type fish is in shadow as this was lit from the sun
A close encounter with a manta, these are awesome creatures
A a pretty shrimp which seemed to "float" in the water, found in a crevice in Blue Hole
Long nosed hawkfish hanging out at the base of a sea fan
On the other hand I found setting the C2 function to manual focus at 10cm and forced flash with a small aperature was very convinient for quickly getting reasonable shots of small quick things that would have scurried away otherwise.
I see most G9 users have strobe(s) and an expensive housing, so hopefully this will balance out the images in this section as these are shot on a low end rig, just the Canon housing and no strobe. All the macro stuff is shot aperture-priority at F8 unless otherwise stated. the EXIF info should be preserved so you can go in and see the shutter speed/aperture/ISO settings if you are interested.
First up it's a turtle, shot in RAW and re white-balanced in Photoshop, no other post-processing
Next one of my favourite critters, a baby orang-utan crab shown next to a bit of fuzz.... really impressive camoflague and thanks to Capt Mike for spotting it! This photo is just cropped
Next the ubiquitous Nemo, this one showing his teeth, again cropped:
Some Barracuda at Blue Corner, f2.8, 1/100th sec at ISO 80. Manual white balanced in Photoshop from the RAW image
A couple of pretty flatworms (I think)
A Napolean Wrasse at Blue Corner, f2.8, 1/250th sec ISO-80. Again RAW and WB manually set in Photoshop.
Back to macro, this was a sunset dive to see the mandarinfish come out to play - both these are internal flash and cropped down but with no other processing (I forgot to turn the RAW mode back on for this dive - doh)
"Bumblebee" mandarinfish
A pretty couple
Another turtle, you can't avoid them in Palau! Note the remora-type fish is in shadow as this was lit from the sun
A close encounter with a manta, these are awesome creatures
A a pretty shrimp which seemed to "float" in the water, found in a crevice in Blue Hole
Long nosed hawkfish hanging out at the base of a sea fan
