pictures from Cuba 2006

[H2Andy]

nice shots wardric

how about a report about diving in Cuba? how did you get there? where
did you stay? what was the topside life like? the diving infrastructure? etc.?

i'd love to hear about your trip

 

[wardric]

nice shots wardric

how about a report about diving in Cuba? how did you get there? where
did you stay? what was the topside life like? the diving infrastructure? etc.?

i'd love to hear about your trip

report is in progress and will be posted as soon as I get the time. I'll give a link here when it is finished

 

[dlndavid]

nice shots wardric

how about a report about diving in Cuba? how did you get there? where
did you stay? what was the topside life like? the diving infrastructure? etc.?

i'd love to hear about your trip

I thought you lived in Cuba Norte
Nice picture Eric

 

[H2Andy]

I thought you lived in Cuba Norte

lol, not quite.... i've actually never lived in Miami (or South Florida)

but i guess if you think of Florida as North Cuba, then, yeah eyebrow

 

[dlndavid]

What's Miami's saying? Something like "When the last American leaves, turn out the lights".
and I did look at a map, didn't realize Jacksonville was so far north (for Florida).

 

[Jamdiver]

Lovely pics all around Wardric, especially for dives in challenging conditions as you stated poor vis at times, current, speedy gonzales DM .
I have to say that the series of sponges and gorgonians are superb, you really captured the inner beauty of this vase sponge here.

As I said before, think you're doing well, getting close, filling the frame, I note that in some of your photos it seems that the flash didn't fire? and everything looks washed out.
Example...,again that can easily be remedied.

The blenny shots are great, I prefer this one though as the angle is shooting upwards and slightly to the side, giving a sort of profile view to the blenny and it's habitat (coral).
Maybe you could have got closer? Doubt that would have been possible without touching the coral, in any case I think if you cropped the pic a little, it would have more impact.

Great photos all around, you've obviously made a lot of progress and more is to come i'm sure, so keep at it .

As to the img code, click on this link http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44383
Directly below the picture is the 'forum code' and above the 'EXIF information' is the img/forum code, copy and paste that in your posts if you want the pics to appear in the post as opposed to all attached the end.

P.S., what an awful transistion it must be from Cuba to Canada

 

[wardric]

Thanks Jam (and thanks for the trick).

Sometimes, the inner flash didn't fire intentionnaly to avoid backscatter. I will try to resolve this by purchasing a nice strobe If anyone has good advice for a strobe that would fit on my Canon A-75 and on other cams (because they are not eternal ) and that is not too cheap nor expensive, I would appreciate.

About the Blenny, I had the same tought about cropping it but I wanted to show the original first. And if I had got closer, i would have smashed my face on the coral. Water was a bit bumpy that day (and the other days )

Thanks for the advices Jam and I hope you will get your cam back real soon so you can show your wonderfull daily and underwater pics again.

 

[HowardE]

If you crop the blenny photo while it's still large on your computer, and then re-size to 640X480, it should look like you were right there.

 

[wardric]

If you crop the blenny photo while it's still large on your computer, and then re-size to 640X480, it should look like you were right there.

hehe! isn't it like cheating a bit? like using photoshop? :14:

 

[HowardE]

Cheating? or one of the benefits of larger MP camera? I think it's a benefit to take a 7mp photo, crop the center, and reduce the size... boom... instant macro - from far away.