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Here's some of the shots that came out from my Dive at Anchor Point on Sat.
http://www.digigreen.net/photopost/data/542/scorpion_fish.jpg
I think it's a Scorpion fish.. Photoshopped out some of the back scatter. I'd taken a few shots from a distance before going marco and had made a bit of a mess of the water by this time.
http://www.digigreen.net/photopost/data/542/edible_crab.jpg
This is a BIG boy. Dinner plate sized shell. It will take a braver man than me to bag this one!
http://www.digigreen.net/photopost/data/542/crab.jpg
Female Shore Crab. Cute wee bugger.
http://www.digigreen.net/photopost/data/542/Alistair.jpg
And my buddy for the day Alistair McKenzie
Dive Tramp
20-08-07, 21:28
Great shots Regthing, gonna have to look at photoshop sometime, the viz on our dives on Sunday was better than your dive apparently:) , but there was still loads of back scatter around on my pics.:o
Well when I say Photoshop I'm actually using Paint Shop Pro but it takes longer to type :rolleyes:
Been using PSP for a few years, nothing advanced. Acquired Photoshop not that long a go but don't find it as intuitive. I think it is a more powerful tool though.
I use photoshop and there are a few guides on the net. I have turned round some pretty crappy pictures into reasonably good, but it does take a bit of effort.
dive granny
20-08-07, 23:26
Pics are really good. well done.:)
http://www.digigreen.net/photopost/data/542/scorpion_fish.jpg
I think it's a Scorpion fish.. Photoshopped out some of the back scatter. I'd taken a few shots from a distance before going marco and had made a bit of a mess of the water by this time.
Excellent photo :D
Looks to me like a Longspined Bullhead Taurulus bubalis [also known as the Rockfish, Scorpion Fish, Clobberhead, Spikey, Sea Scorpion, Sea-Toadfish, Rout or Bullfish] which is indeed one of more than 20 northern European species of fish within the Order Scorpaniformes (known colloquially as "scorpion fishes").
Great work, Scott. :cool:
Rusty Nuts
21-08-07, 08:10
Nice Pics Bud.
Hi Regthing, I love the scorpion shot. What a face "only mum could love that gish".
A few tips that might help you out editing this beautiful shot. Hope you don’t think me presumptuous offering unasked for advice. But here goes.
If you are using matrix multi focus metering, deselect it and use spot. Spot works best underwater. Try to put the metering brackets on the eye of the subject. You always want the eye in sharp focus forget the rest for now.
Pull back a little further than your capture frame. You can then crop the shot with the eye in one of the rule of thirds anchor point.
Always shoot raw if you can or the highest setting you have. This gives you more latitude to compose the subject during photo manipulation.
For this shot during manipulation, clip the highlight and shadows down to the level of the value of the pixels in the eye pupil. Clone some of the blown highlights if you can to stop them disturbing your desired train of flow. Clone out the o. o. focus weedy bit on the left of the fin. Mask the subject and apply Gaussian blur to the background. Boost the red channel a touch. Finally apply unsharp mask to razor the image.
Last of all dump that editing program go Adobe.
Hope the advice helps and hasn’t caused offence.
Best regards Olddog.
Scuba-Doh!
21-08-07, 11:04
Excellent advice Olddog, I'll be giving this a go myself.
Hi Olddog.
No offence at all. I need all the help I can get.
I must say I lost you a bit in places :D But good advice on the bit I did understand.
I really need to brush up on my photo editing. And yes, I need to get to grips with Photoshop as well.
I've shot RAW before but Photoshop won't open the files (.ORF) :confused: so I'm now using the highest jpg quality the camera will push out. I'd need to check the camera to see what that is as I can't remember. But it is SHQ with highest resolution.
For this shot during manipulation, clip the highlight and shadows down to the level of the value of the pixels in the eye pupil. Clone some of the blown highlights if you can to stop them disturbing your desired train of flow. Clone out the o. o. focus weedy bit on the left of the fin. Mask the subject and apply Gaussian blur to the background. Boost the red channel a touch. Finally apply unsharp mask to razor the image.
This is where I start to go a but hazey. Cloning the blown highlights shouldn't be a problem. I was a bit wary to do so as they are so big but I'll give it a try. As for weedy bit wouldn't have even attemted that but I'll give it a go. I would need to read up on clipping the highlight and shadow. The gaussian blur, and mask should be OK. I had all ready upped the red slightly but yeah it could do with a bit more to bring the brown out.
This is why I fancied getting the photog's together. Bit of knowledge distribution. :D
Cheers.
Go to the Adobe web site and load the updated raw file reader. Adobe will read a bear mat if its worth editing !!!!
PSP will take some shifting from your comp. I had to reformat my HD last time I loaded it and wanted shot of it. It has the same rep as Real player ie its meglamanic in wanting to take over form other programs doing what it thinks it can do best. Some say Adobe often runs unstable with PSP as when loaded some changes are made in the file directory, sly!
Honest go with adobe, its a big learning curve but like riding a bike once mastered it a doddle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Not always poss in UW photog but a good one to learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Not always poss in UW photog but a good one to learn.
Not always easy as you say. But I have a nice wee feature on my camera that places the thirds grid on the veiwing window. I'll need to play with it :D
Had a wee shot of Photoshop earlier. Found the spot fix tool and that is cracking for getting rid of backscatter. Better than clone I think.
Not always easy as you say. But I have a nice wee feature on my camera that places the thirds grid on the veiwing window. I'll need to play with it :D
Had a wee shot of Photoshop earlier. Found the spot fix tool and that is cracking for getting rid of backscatter. Better than clone I think.
Whats your rig, it sounds like an Oly.
Tip, easy fix for laods of backscatter. First create a duplicate layer then apply Gaussian blur till the BS disappears. Next use the history brush to burn through this layer to make the base sections of the unblurred layer sharp.
Ie; the fish or whatever. More realistic than cloning or healing tools.
Saves loadsa time
Yep. It's Olympus SP500 (http://www.digicamreview.co.uk/olympus_sp500uz_review.htm) in an Ikelite housing (http://www.ikelite.com/web_pages/oly_sp500.html) and DS-125 strobe (http://www.ikelite.com/web_pages/ss_dig125.html)
Need to try the duplicate layer thing as well. Been a bit of an education today :)
Nice rig. Are the vid clips on that camera 30 FPS Movs. Mine are, sods to edit.:(
It's a nice camera. I had the C-700UZ before it. But that was only 2mp. It had the 10x optical zoom as well. Very nice feature. I upgraded before I went to Egypt last year.
I've now got the Wide angle and Telephoto lenses for this one (for dry land). Makes it a really flexible bit of kit.
Never really played with the vid. Took a couple of short ones. They look pretty grainy on the camera. Been meaning to have a play to see if they're are any better settings.
Fixed it up a bit. Didn't go for the cloning out of the weed on the LHS. And could maybe do with a softening aroung the edge of the fish where I did the history tool bit. But certainly looking better.
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa140/regthing/scorpion_fish2.jpg
dive granny
25-08-07, 09:02
That is a great pic. I'll need to take up the photography too:)