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Fish and Marine creatures ID books
Fish and Marine creatures ID books
TimG · January 14, 20242 yr in Critter Identification
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Chris Ross

December 9, 2025Dec 9
Image Sizing Tutorial
Image Sizing Tutorial

Davide DB · January 2, 20242 yr in Critter Identification
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TimG

January 2, 20242 yr
Looking for underwater photographers to test species ID in Lightroom
Looking for underwater photographers to test species ID in Lightroom

HugzzPictures · July 28Jul 28 in Critter Identification
- 1 reply
- 227 views
Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita

July 29Jul 29
Fish and shrimp
Fish and shrimp

Kevin Beaulieu · June 29Jun 29 in Critter Identification
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Kevin Beaulieu

June 29Jun 29
Fish ID during blackwater.
Fish ID during blackwater.

kdgonzalez · June 11Jun 11 in Critter Identification
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bghazzal

June 12Jun 12
What are these spirals at the dwarf gobi?
What are these spirals at the dwarf gobi?

Architeuthis · April 29Apr 29 in Critter Identification
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bvanant

May 5May 5
Looking for dive photographer input on a Lightroom species-matching plugin (beta, paid after, disclosure inside)
Looking for dive photographer input on a Lightroom species-matching plugin (beta, paid after, disclosure inside)
Brettjforsyth · April 15Apr 15 in Critter Identification
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ACHiPo

April 24Apr 24
Goldspot Goby?
Goldspot Goby?

SwiftFF5 · March 30Mar 30 in Critter Identification
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SwiftFF5

March 31Mar 31
Red Sea sponge?
Red Sea sponge?

Nikolausz · January 2Jan 2 in Critter Identification
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- 667 views
Floris Bennema

March 25Mar 25
Coral identification
Coral identification

JapanDiver · December 29, 2025Dec 29 in Critter Identification
- 1 reply
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Tom Kline

December 29, 2025Dec 29
Critter Observation
Critter Observation

jyuny1 · December 17, 2025Dec 17 in Critter Identification
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jyuny1

December 17, 2025Dec 17
Scorpionfish id
Scorpionfish id

canislupus · December 6, 2025Dec 6 in Critter Identification
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canislupus

December 7, 2025Dec 7
Seafan?
Seafan?

Fabian · November 21, 2025Nov 21 in Critter Identification
- 3 replies
- 912 views
Davide DB

November 28, 2025Nov 28
Help with frogfish
Help with frogfish

canislupus · November 24, 2025Nov 24 in Critter Identification
- 11 replies
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Chris Ross

November 26, 2025Nov 26
Hawaiian shrimp id help?
Hawaiian shrimp id help?

RVBldr · November 8, 2025Nov 8 in Critter Identification
- 2 replies
- 691 views
humu9679

November 10, 2025Nov 10
Somebody can help to know her?
Somebody can help to know her?

PEPhoto84 · September 7, 2025Sep 7 in Nudibranch
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PEPhoto84

September 15, 2025Sep 15
Warty Aeolid???
Warty Aeolid???

JS1221 · September 5, 2025Sep 5 in Critter Identification
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- 788 views
Chris Ross

September 5, 2025Sep 5
Little red fish (Philippines)
Little red fish (Philippines)

d2b · August 9, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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d2b

August 19, 2025Aug 19
ID for 2 worms and anemone
ID for 2 worms and anemone

Sarthur1 · August 2, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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Sarthur1

August 2, 20251 yr
A Field Guide to Sydney Harbour Fishes
A Field Guide to Sydney Harbour Fishes

MikeJonesDive · July 30, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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- 994 views
MikeJonesDive

July 30, 20251 yr
Help identifying this mollusc?
Help identifying this mollusc?

canislupus · June 22, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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- 990 views
canislupus

June 23, 20251 yr
What is this Nudibranch?
What is this Nudibranch?

Mark Don · May 18, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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Luko

May 27, 20251 yr
Dragonet?
Dragonet?

Toque · January 21, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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Toque

May 21, 20251 yr
Crab Identification Request
Crab Identification Request

Diver Dave1 · March 8, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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Kraken de Mabini

March 9, 20251 yr
Small shrimp... maybe
Small shrimp... maybe

horvendile · March 5, 20251 yr in Critter Identification
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Troporobo

March 5, 20251 yr

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Shooting a Snoot
Shooting a Snoot

TimG · October 30, 20232 yr

Shooting a Snoot Underwater photography is an absorbing form of photography. For some, it’s a technical issue of capturing fish portraits. For others an art form about capturing the beauty and mystery of the underwater world. Whichever you aim for, it presents unique challenges. Everything moves: you, the water, and the subject. Photography is all about capturing and controlling light. In the underwater world lighting and highlighting the subject is often impacted by either a
TimG

October 30, 20232 yr

TimG

Wednesday at 09:22 PM3 days
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UWT Trigger for Nauticam/OM System OM-1
UWT Trigger for Nauticam/OM System OM-1

TimG · August 8Aug 8

Having recently written about installing the o-Turtle trigger into a Nauticam housing, I’ve now had a go with a UWT internal trigger for the Nauticam NA-OM1 housing. UWT describes it as the 11072-22-HSS TTL-Converter for NAUTICAM for OLYMPUS/ OM SYSTEM. The UWT trigger arrives in a bubble-wrap envelope in a small cardboard box. No frills functional. It consists of a small electronics board with two LEDs and a cable leading to a hot shoe connector. The manual explains that strobes are selected
TimG

August 8Aug 8

Chris Ross

Wednesday at 01:26 AM3 days
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Strobe Triggers for OM System/Nauticam: o-Turtle and a Fitting Tip
Strobe Triggers for OM System/Nauticam: o-Turtle and a Fitting Tip

TimG · August 4Aug 4

Having bought a Nauticam housing and OM System OM-1ii recently as the base of my new underwater camera setup, I needed an LED trigger to fire the strobes. Although I havn’t used TTL underwater for many years, I did want HSS as I often include the sunball when shooting wide-angle. This usually requires high shutter speed to avoid exposure burn outs. HSS options for an OM trigger seemed to boil down to the Turtle or UWT. The Nauticam flash trigger, although an attractive option, doesn’t provide
TimG

August 4Aug 4

Nir Friedman

Monday at 04:09 PM5 days
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Nikon defends the patent it tried to destroy and loses anyway
Nikon defends the patent it tried to destroy and loses anyway

Davide DB · August 7Aug 7

Panasonic achieved a result that Apple, Sony and Nikon did not. The Japanese Intellectual Property High Court invalidated a major RED patent concerning raw video files. RED had historically used this patent to demand licensing fees and stop competitors. Nikon initially challenged the patent in court but purchased RED before a ruling and dropped the case. When Panasonic recently challenged the same patent in Japan, Nikon defended the claims it had previously opposed. The court ultimately rejecte
Davide DB

August 7Aug 7

Davide DB

August 7Aug 7
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Liveaboards: A Word to the Wise
Liveaboards: A Word to the Wise
TimG · May 17May 17

You may have read or seen pictures of the fire that broke out in the Maldives on the Emperor Explorer liveaboard on 9 May. My partner and I were on it as part of a group of 25. Like many members, we’ve been lucky enough to have been on lots of liveaboards. During the pre-departure safety briefing we were given the usual advice: If an alarm sounds do not return to our cabins to collect stuff: head immediately to the muster station by the dive platform; put together a grab bag in case of emerge
TimG

May 17May 17

TimG

August 7Aug 7
- 45 comments
- 4,922 views
Adobe Lightroom Classic: v 15.5
Adobe Lightroom Classic: v 15.5

TimG · August 4Aug 4

It's almost hard to keep up with the updates. Version 15.5 for LR Classic now available. Adobe report the update: "includes enhanced crop tool, mask refinements, render to DNG option, support for newly released cameras and lenses, bug fixes, and more".
TimG

August 4Aug 4

TimG

August 4Aug 4
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