Ok, I am sick, have a swollen ankle and really should not have been diving.... but, boy was in nice out...and I had camera gear I wanted to test out.
We dove two spots....Liberty rock (love that place if one likes to spear fish), and they had checkout students... so the lovely Miss Louse (which I hate).
Water temps were 64 (warm) degrees...
Liberty had tons of "you cannot hurt me" red snapper, lots of medium black/grey/mangrove snapper (some of which were really huge), sheep head, one 4 ft amberjack and several large grouper...
But I was testing out a new camera with the zoom lens set a 7mm, so everything thru it looked really tiny.
Vis, before everyone got down, was around 40, but quickly went down to around 20...
Here is one of the divers, from just over three feet away:
Ok, chunky water and lighting a wide angle leaves a lot of back scatter..
I did a video, but everything looks so small it is silly.
Ok it worked, I was getting bored, and then a huge southern stingray swam by... maybe 10 ft long.. 7 ft wide...perfect for a wide angle lens:
I took a couple more test shots and then when swimming back to the line, saw that it had settled down in the sand... so a slowly, carefully got close to it... at something inside 3 ft, it sensed me and got up, and I shot this just as it started to move:
That is a full grown queen angel, and adult remora's... notice it has three barbs on it's tail?
We dove two spots....Liberty rock (love that place if one likes to spear fish), and they had checkout students... so the lovely Miss Louse (which I hate).
Water temps were 64 (warm) degrees...
Liberty had tons of "you cannot hurt me" red snapper, lots of medium black/grey/mangrove snapper (some of which were really huge), sheep head, one 4 ft amberjack and several large grouper...
But I was testing out a new camera with the zoom lens set a 7mm, so everything thru it looked really tiny.
Vis, before everyone got down, was around 40, but quickly went down to around 20...
Here is one of the divers, from just over three feet away:
Ok, chunky water and lighting a wide angle leaves a lot of back scatter..
I did a video, but everything looks so small it is silly.
Ok it worked, I was getting bored, and then a huge southern stingray swam by... maybe 10 ft long.. 7 ft wide...perfect for a wide angle lens:
I took a couple more test shots and then when swimming back to the line, saw that it had settled down in the sand... so a slowly, carefully got close to it... at something inside 3 ft, it sensed me and got up, and I shot this just as it started to move:
That is a full grown queen angel, and adult remora's... notice it has three barbs on it's tail?