Leopard Shark Video

[JamesD]

Not the best video, the murky conditions in California and the lack of any lights on my housing doesn't make for the BEST video, but it's not tragic.

http://www.zippyvideos.com/5818299332552576/vclp0095/

Next time I'm going to use white balancing if I haven't gotten any lights yet.

 

[meekal]

very cool - how deep are you?

 

[JamesD]

About 46ft (deepest point of the dive but flat period from my Dive Computer graph).

 

[ScubaBob92651]

Not the best video, the murky conditions in California and the lack of any lights on my housing doesn't make for the BEST video, but it's not tragic.

http://www.zippyvideos.com/5818299332552576/vclp0095/

Next time I'm going to use white balancing if I haven't gotten any lights yet.

For shots like that (wide, about 4-6' away) lights won't do much, unless were talking 1000w+. White balancing will greatly help, even off the sand if you have to. Cool leapord - where was this taken?

 

[drbill]

Although I've seen lots of leopards while kayaking and swimming, the only time I've gotten good video of them was two summers ago in Catalina's Casino Point Dive Park (an unusual place to see them). Both times I sensed something approaching from behind me and readied the camera only to have one of the leopards brush by my shoulder and swim right in front of me in fairly clear water. Next year I'm going to have to try filming them while they are in the shallows here... or San Diego.

 

[JamesD]

This was taken off of Monastery Beach in Monterey, it was my first dive in Calfornia COLD with a new camera, so I forgot to take my slate to white balance against (and with the level of surge I just didn't feel like trying to bother with it, I didn't want to task load too much).

 

[ScubaBob92651]

Although I've seen lots of leopards while kayaking and swimming, the only time I've gotten good video of them was two summers ago in Catalina's Casino Point Dive Park (an unusual place to see them). Both times I sensed something approaching from behind me and readied the camera only to have one of the leopards brush by my shoulder and swim right in front of me in fairly clear water. Next year I'm going to have to try filming them while they are in the shallows here... or San Diego.

Some friends saw some at Torqua Springs a couple weeks ago - of course the leapords didn't stick around for too long...