Everything posted by jlaity
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Here is the ebook: https://paulnicklen.com/product/photographing-wild/ -
Book I rediscovered recently, “Photographing Wild” by Paul Nicklen. Alex Mustard’s book is heavy on technique, where Nicklen and Skerry talk about approaching wildlife and how to get better behavior shots. I’ve learned from all of them but I’d love to find more like “Wild.”
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Is the only difference between bonfire and black water whether you can see the bottom? To me, “bonfire dive” is when they put lights on the bottom to attract life, like the manta dive in Kona, Hawaii. It’s in around 60 feet of water with lights on the bottom to attract plankton to feed the mantas. All black water dives have lights on a line, for a location reference and safety as much as to attract critters.
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Did you bend the battery compartment pins out? The ones on the cap. Also try not tightening the cap so tightly, or cleaning the pins. The pins on the inside are gold-plated, but the ones on the cap are made of tin or something. Also, smacking the strobe around the battery compartment often wakes them up, on the Z-220, 240, and 330. Or maybe listen to the guys recommending Sea and Sea since Inon seems to be on their way out of business…
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They seem to sharpen the corners a bit. It helped with my WACP envy. A tiny bit.
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I’ve always shot black water with 5D4 and 100mm macro (EF 100mm non-L). Tougher to find the subject but a better shot when I do, I think. Saving to upgrade to R5 and the new RF 100mm, mostly for better AF on black water dives. We just finished a Komodo trip and I did 9 or 10 black water dives.
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I’m surprised there isn’t more discussion about the Sea and Sea corrector lens. I have one for the EF 17-40L and corner sharpness was noticeably improved. Not WACP wow but better IMO. They only make two sizes, maybe too big for RF lenses?
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Hi, I’m Jeff Laity. I’ve been shooting underwater for around 20 years. I won the Kona Classic Best of Show in 2005 and a few other small awards. I was a member of the Los Angeles Underwater Photography Society when that was active. I mostly shoot off the coast of Southern California and the Channel Islands but occasionally make it to the Indo Pacific and other dive hot and cold spots.
