Philippines macro

These are some of the smaller animals´ pics I took while staying in www.ananyana.com a very unique resort

Trying this Flickr thing but not really getting a hold of it...

Philippines macro set

105VR + sometimes 4T lens no crops

These are some of the smaller animals´ pics I took while staying in www.ananyana.com a very unique resort

 

105VR + sometimes 4T lens no crops

Really lovely photos. Where in Philippines is Ananyana Resort?

Robin

David,

Good to see lovely pictures of yours.

Robin,

They are located ,20 min drive from the airport of Bohol, at Panglao Isld. Also, not far from Balicasag. I dove at Bohol but, did not see macro stuff he saw.

Sam

Great Sets of pictures.

Great DOF and composition.

Love these shots very much!!!!

Also enjoy your other fantastic sets on flickr.

Thanks for sharing.

These are some of the smaller animals´ pics I took while staying in www.ananyana.com a very unique resort

 

105VR + sometimes 4T lens no crops

Thanks David, yes I like them too! The small white crab with the touches of yellow......, he is especially interesting to me? Very handsome! I wonder what species he is?

A couple of quick ?s if you don't mind David?

Did you have the vr turned on for all the shots?

Which 4T is it you used? Any trouble focusing?

Did you use manual override focus or all auto?

Is the lens balanced in your Hugy housing?

I have the 105vr lens and the new Subal 105vr port but haven't been down with it yet as I've been shooting wide. But this Sunday that will change and I'll take it down to 100 feet for a handling test in the springs and get my first shots with it. No teleconverter or diopter yet though but I want to get one/some.

Thanks for your neat post and info!

Best, Carol

Thank you all!

Seagrant: I shot all of them with vr on and AF (I don´t have a manual focus ring). 4T is a nikon close up lens equivalent to 6T but with 52mm (105vr is 62m) so I use an adapter ring for it and focusing is troubleless (but you can´t focus further than 50cm or so...). The lens feels pretty balanced but it has a negative buoyancy anyway...

Tell us how it goes this sunday!!

Lovely pictures,

The small crab in the bottom left picture is a 'squat lobster' Allogalathea sp. It is normally found hiding in the arms of featherstars with matching colours.

Lovely pictures,

 

The small crab in the bottom left picture is a 'squat lobster' Allogalathea sp. It is normally found hiding in the arms of featherstars with matching colours.

OOOPS, that is what I get for looking too quickly!

Allogalathea elegans you think or undescribed?

Anyway David he is cool looking and it is a great pic!!!....., see it is your neat "head-on" shot that quickly fooled me.........., I had actually been looking at bunches of "ID" shots of Pacific creatures recently (that must be why my brain is fried... ) and most all the squat lobsters are shot downward or sideways showing the whole squat lobster with the outstretched claws in proportion. I recently told Paul Humann that I was hopeless at Pacific creatures - and I just demonstrated that.......

I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow!

Best, Carol

OOOPS, that is what I get for looking too quickly!

 

Allogalathea elegans you think or undescribed?

I would have thought it is, but i didn't want to go into too much detail in case i was wrong!