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North Berwick
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Loch Long
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Loch Fyne
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SMALL PRINT
Some of these pictures may well have been taken by PeterM, although since most if not all are in focus I doubt it :D . He can take credit for probably providing lighting on most and hovering about waiting on me as I set the shots up.
Been meaning to post some of my favourite pictures for ages and had some time before I went on holiday to set them up on Photobucket. I have some more which may be worthy and will have a rummage around.
These are the culmination of around 5years of taking pictures underwater and experimenting with lights, zoom and picture settings. Some have been edited in Adobe but I think most are straight from the card.
Sites include: Conger Alley, Triple Reef, The Caves, Bass Rock, Craigleith, The Hurkers, Big Green Carr, Catherdral Rock (slutt rocks), The Skerries, etc.
Any comments, good or bad appreciated.
Cheers
Nice pics.
I like the lobster. The colours are cracking and the lighting is spot on.
Great photos. I particularly like the lobby and the orange wrasse!
SMALL PRINT
Some of these pictures may well have been taken by PeterM, although since most if not all are in focus I doubt it :D . He can take credit for probably providing lighting on most and hovering about waiting on me as I set the shots up.
Font size 1, bah! :eek:
Lucky for me, I was about to post a response - some sort of congratulatory note I think :D - when I saw the small print above! :mad:
bugger, didnt think you would be able to read the font size 1 ;)
alexmaclennan
18-06-07, 15:42
I like the field of Dead Mans Fingers, the wrasse and the lobster.
The plumose anemones on the carpet of brittlestars is very like what we saw diving in Loch Fyne on Saturday.
alex
Some great photos there, chris. :D
Well done & thanks for sharing them. Who says that Scottish diving is boring? :eek:
Scuba-Doh!
18-06-07, 19:54
Fantastic photos, wish I could get mine to turn out like those.
Fantastic photos, wish I could get mine to turn out like those.
As I said scubadoh, I have been taking pics for around 5 years all throughout Scotland diving and also abroad. Its a lot easier in clearer water, however what I have learned is to slow down and take 2 or 3 pics of the same subject. I usually either use my own torch (D8R) or Peter lights the subject with his Greenforce. I dont play with any of the settings on the camera, simply leaving it to Auto and the camera in question is a 8 year old digital sony DSC-P5 (I think). The LCD is a bit small, and I have no filters on the lense, if the pictures are a bit green I usually adjust them with Adobe.
Best tip is get as close to the subject as possible, the less water and particles between camera and subject the better, but I aint no expert!!!
Scuba-Doh!
19-06-07, 13:28
As I said scubadoh, I have been taking pics for around 5 years all throughout Scotland diving and also abroad. Its a lot easier in clearer water, however what I have learned is to slow down and take 2 or 3 pics of the same subject. I usually either use my own torch (D8R) or Peter lights the subject with his Greenforce. I dont play with any of the settings on the camera, simply leaving it to Auto and the camera in question is a 8 year old digital sony DSC-P5 (I think). The LCD is a bit small, and I have no filters on the lense, if the pictures are a bit green I usually adjust them with Adobe.
Best tip is get as close to the subject as possible, the less water and particles between camera and subject the better, but I aint no expert!!!
Cool thanks for the advice. As for getting as close as possible I've found the my camera doesn't focus unless it's a good distance from the subject. Considering buying a housing for my old Sony P73 digital camera which I expect would be an improvement over my SeaLife camera. I'm on a D4R myself and might look into finding a buddy with a good torch ;) .
to get close you might want to use the Macro setting.
Yes, using the macro will probably produce better pictures - if you can set thwe thing underwater.
I think it was implied in Chris' post and most of you will know anyway, but do not use the camera flash as the scatter from this directly in the view will ruin nearly any picture. We are suing torches and others are using strobes and flashes on stalks at a different angle to the picture.
Scuba-Doh!
19-06-07, 16:28
Yes, using the macro will probably produce better pictures - if you can set thwe thing underwater.
I think it was implied in Chris' post and most of you will know anyway, but do not use the camera flash as the scatter from this directly in the view will ruin nearly any picture. We are suing torches and others are using strobes and flashes on stalks at a different angle to the picture.
Distinct lack of Macro on my current camera without going out and spending money on the lenses. Never had any luck with turning the flash off on that camera either, so I've always left it on, though saying that I managed to shoot a short video of a conger at St Cats (with some help from my buddies torches). I'll give it another go without the built-in flash.
I spent £150 odd quid on the strobe kit for my F10, still never got the damn thing to work in sync :(
It will come out again, now that my F10 has been replaced with an F11, by the nice insurace people.
I spent £150 odd quid on the strobe kit for my F10, still never got the damn thing to work in sync :(
It will come out again, now that my F10 has been replaced with an F11, by the nice insurace people.
mine did that last year, very nice people.
Good photos. Nice to know that you don't have to spend a lot of cash to get decent photos just time and preparation.
well done.
Distinct lack of Macro on my current camera without going out and spending money on the lenses. Never had any luck with turning the flash off on that camera either, so I've always left it on, though saying that I managed to shoot a short video of a conger at St Cats (with some help from my buddies torches). I'll give it another go without the built-in flash.
The macro is one thing, but the single best thing I've seen in improving the quality was switching off the flash and lighting the scene with torches. I might be corrected by some of the others, but I'd tape up the flash if you can't switch it off!