Rune Edvin Haldorsen

Even if you won't recommend the diving operator, I thhink you've made a good recommendation for the area :) .. Nise shots with lovely compositions.

The TG6 is a good place to start. It looks liek you've made some photos before bringing your camera into the sea. The compositions work well and you seems to be controlling the highlights well. Congrats with a good start.

It was a quite hughe lift in the technical quality from the camera you used a few weeks ago. Next time we'll struggle together with 100 mm macro and manual focus.

It's a bit slower than the MK iii, but the largest difference is up to MK IV, so my conclution while using my MK II was that it wasn't worth the money to change before the next camera model. Good focus light and high quality lenses will give you more than a slightly upgraded autofocus. If you use it, the auto color ballance seems (in my oppenion) better in MK II than in the following models. By the way: The reason why noone sell the MK III underwater housing is becauce you use the same housing for MK IV, so If you want to upgrade for a MK IV, it will be wise to buy a MK III kit. .

Sometimes, I still use an old 5D MI II and 7D (even if I hav a 5D MK IV), and they are still making really good photos compared with the newet cameras. You will lack a bit on the color depth on higher iso and the quality when filming is a bit lower and the autofocus is a bit slower, but the digfference is not enough to be significant for a non commersial user. I'd say 5D MI III is still good enough for all underwater photography.

Beautiful scenes and light.

Thanks. I used manual focus. I wouldn't manage to do this one with AF.

I was allowed to try a z-cam in nauticam housing with a 100 mm macro at an underwater video workshop today. I kept it simple and it was quite fun.

As far as I remember, off the coast of Scotland, they calculated lost fishing gear caught twice the amount of fish as commercial fishing (about 2000). This is a sad and good example showing the problem with fishing gear.

Lovely photo. The first image was a bit diferent to the normal high quality goby photos I see with nice color contrasts to the sea squirt and the green dots. Lovely composition.

Beautiful film :)

I guess I will read the VoiceOver once again and remix it with the music, but here is a first version of some changes in a part of the Norwegian coastline during the last 15 years.

Welcome. I've had a look at some of your ocean stories and they are lovely. I really enjoy the freediving focus on shallow marine life .)

I often regret I use apparture 32 or 22 when evaluating my photos, but it's quite safe. I see the amount of sharp photos are getting quite low when using more open apparture than 10 (on 100 mm macro with diopter). Here are F10 quite near minimum distance (100 mm & +10 diopter) and F 8 & 5.6 a bit further away. I think F 5.6 make it more or less impossible to get both eyes sharp

Beautiful scenes. To improve even more, I think I'd try to gety the changes between scenes, maybe with slower swimming, a bit longer time on each place and then changfe to something (visual) similar. I guess you'd have enough material for at least two small films here, so focusing on one theme in each of them (like small life in one and landscapes and schools in another) would make the impression stronger. Anyway: Nice film and cool nature. Lokks like a beautiful place to dive. Rune

Lovely way of making an anti-spamming control

Good work @johnvila . Keep on going.

Filamentous algaes as an indicator of poor environmental status - If the density of think, threadlike algaes cover more than 25 % of rocks, kelp, bladderwrack or eel-grass, we say theu make a problem. More nutrient water with lower Ph (due to CO2), higher temperature, lower saltinity (more rain and more fresh water along the coastline) make the conditions better. 15 years ago the areas in the photos were quite clean from these algaes and filled with kelp and bladderwrack. The same growth is coming along the whole nothern european coastline up to Lofoten. This is from the southern and south-western parts of Norway where the situation is worse than in the North.

Nice and stable film. I'd like to go back some day

Nice posing with a good and clean background. Are there several anemones on this one? It seems to me like it's four or five? Lovely shot.

Avcter the last sad stories, I'll bring some good. This spring / summer has been extraordinary dry with very little floods and little mud, clay and pollution coming into our local fjord. As soon as the conditions are getting better, the marine life is starting to restore, wich means it is hope for the ocean if we just treat it a bit better. Her we see sea squirt (the oceans own cleaning station) covering large aras, sugar kelp growig on previous bare areas, anemones coming back on hte rock and my buddy locking trough an old car wreck with lots of life. The sad part is that it always dissapear after periods with bad conditions.

Here Is the same spot (photo 2 is 3 m. south of photo 1) in 2011 and 2025. All vegetation and.fauna is gone. Both photos are shot in the beginning of march.

Beautiful film with lots of great scenes. It made want to go a place I have not seen before :) . As I do not know anything about the environment and rules in the area (I almost only dive in polar areas) my suggestions might be stupid, but i write them anyway :) In some of the close up scenes, I'd like to see even more stable film. A use of tripod (might be harmful or illegal in some environments) could increase the feeling of the small stuff movoing nearby. The angle of view in the beginning is quite low and, for me, quite perfect. I think I'd like to see more from the same point of view (eg. lower). In the middle of the film, you're back to the sweet point of view. Anyway, it is a lovely film. Thanks for sharing. The lighting is really sweet.