Spoilsport: GBR/Coral Sea

Porcelain Crab at Fanfare, Flinder's Reef

More here: http://www.echeng.com/travel/australia/

It's rough, but it's online. I got back at 5pm, went to a concert at Davies Symphony Hall at 8pm, and am now extremely tired.

I'm going to bed.

Nice... 60mm?

Canon 100mm USM Macro. Hard to keep the thing steady!

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Shutter speed: 1/125 sec

Aperture: 10.0

Exposure mode: Manual

Flash: Off

Metering mode: Center-weighted average

Drive mode: Single frame shooting

ISO: 100

Lens: 100.0 mm

Focal length: 100.0 mm

AF mode: AI Servo AF

Image quality: Raw

White balance: Auto

Saturation: Normal

Sharpness: Low

Contrast: Normal

Custom Functions:

CFn 4: Tv/Av and exposure level: 1/3 stop

CFn 5: AF-assist beam/Flash firing: Only ext. flash emits/Fires

CFn 11: Menu button return position: Previous (top if powered off)

CFn 12: SET button function when shooting: Change ISO speed

That's where focus lock becomes useful!

Great write up: Especially like the reference to the guy second rating the cook! There is always one on every trip - It'll be MarkH on the Port Hardy Trip!!!

Indeed it is nice. How long did you sit & wait for him to play?

Eric I have also been admiring your travel web link. Very well laid out if I may say. I assume you put this together as you were travelling? What software do you use and did you upload en route or when you got back?

Reason I ask is that I would like to do this myself (if I get time !)

Mark

Once again, a great report.

You have too love having strobe issues.

Woohoo! Awesome report Eric!

Strange animal at wheeler reef looks like a cerianthus anemone (aka tube anemone):

They are sometimes green or even purple.

Cheers

James

I look at some of ( in fact a lot of) photos posted on this site and the quality is absolutely outstanding. Eric's & Bob's many pics for example would grace any National Geographic mag. I can only wish to emulate these when I get going with my Titan/Oly 10 rig.

Keep it up guys. One day you WILL be millionnaires.

PS Bob, do you have a web site. You ought to have with 14,000 photos ( a bloody big one!).....lol

I am a millionaire, and Eric's in the right job!

My website co went t's-up last August - I'll get around to putting it back up in April.

Mark be careful Eric is at one with the computer. He has been referred to as OB1 for his amazing talents with computers et al. He does this stuff for a living at a high level.

And, I second your comments about the quality of Eric's and Bob's reports and photos.

Great (as usual) report and shots!

Do you have some mystery wizard that build and manage your reports sites?

Bob - so that explains it! You know what they say "they are all eccentric."

I wish I had more time today to look through Eric's pix from the trip. Sure makes me want to go somewhere WARM!

Eric, did you shoot all of these with one strobe? If yes, Bob is gonna love it!

Cheers

James

Wow, Fabulous!!!!!!

I'll bet Eric's still in bed!

I'm not eccentric - just on a mission.

Yeah -- just one strobe. I had two early DS-125s that were defective (the problem has since been fixed, Ike says), and was just lucky that they hadn't gone on me earlier! Luckily, I had a spare.

YS 90?

Your misfortune adds to that flattening curve young OB1!

Great story and photos to match, Eric.

By the looks of some of your shark photos I would say that you've inherited some of Jim Watts shark photography traits. In particular, the "in it's face I forget it's a possible man-eater" photographers stance.

Were you above the chumstickle when the sharks were feeding?

Nah - we were herded into the cages during the actual bait release. I much prefer free-swimming with these little guys. I only know one person who has suffered a bite from a reef shark. Plus, they don't really seem big enough to cause a lot of damage. errr, or, you have to believe that in order to get the photos, anyway.

Fish ID.

The name Clownfish associated to most anenome fish is incorrect (at time of posting). The true clownfish is Amphiprion ocellaris (Western or Eastern) which has a slimmer more rounded body.

The spinecheek anemone fish Premnas biaculeatus

Green Chromis or bluegreen puller - Chromis viridis.

Anymore useless information - just ask!!!

Great report and photos Eric. You're going to shame me into writing up my Thailand trip and cleaning up my web page.