Images from our Raja Ampat -> Komodo trip

Hi all. after Eric, Herb and Doug put their photos online, I guess we couldn't procrastinate anymore. Here are some images we made on that trip. They are unsorted

Cor

Very impressive and varied gallery. Thanks for sharing, Cor.

Alex

yep, just trying to open it up, what i see so far looks great.

You two using snoots on the strobes for the macro?!?! very select lighting there, very nice

Hi Mike, sorry about that, our site is a little traffic intensive One of these day's i'll try and teach the software i use to create-for-web images that are much lower quality.

We dont use snoots, but we do a lot of repositioning of our strobes. I change my strobes almost every image.

Cor

cor,amazing pix !! really top notch !!

cant wait to go there in december

Artistic works!!!

your pics are really beautiful, artistic, shots

Very beautiful, and original - I love your use of light. Headed there in September, hope I do half so well.

Some of these seem ready-made for the "Purple" POTW contest .

amazing images, a very nice collection of shots from a beautiful part of the world. i could and probably will look at your albums all night....cheers

I like your use of DOF. Vey nice.

Congrats to both of you on some great captures. Love the variety of subjects and looks. Interesting close-up of detail. Kudos!

Todd

Some great stuff there, Cor! Really nice WA as well as macro! Congrats!

I agree, some fantastic shots, thanks for sharing!

Luiz

that purple cuttlefish with the black background is a contest winner...!

what lens?

Hi Mike, it's taken with a 105. 1/160 @ f5.6 , but my strobes are probably only half as far away as my lens is.

Cor

Great shots Cor and Julie. It's good to see them again with the correct colors.

Cor and Julie

Really wonderful images.....

Just a first glance, I thought I'd let you know which ones struck an emotional response w/me:

Seasnake - something about that one is really lovely and the essence of sea snake

Cuttlefish w/black background - again something about the striking color quality of it

Thumb's Up Boy - prefect expression, lighting and all - very moving photo

Green Nudi - WOW!

Pink Feather - beautiful pink arrangement

and last but not least the hairy octo - just for shear "panache"!!!

Thanks so much, Carol

Cor and Julie:

Were we on the same trip? Just kidding. Absolutely fantastic shots. Like Herb said, it's great to see them with the "real" colors. Thanks for sharing. Hope to dive with you guys again soon. Sorry I'll miss the Solomons trip.

Doug

OH MY GOD ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Such photos make me wonder if i should sell my camera and do something else.

This is something i believe it is PERFECT !!!!!!!!!!!!

Cor please make me your student , let carry your baggages or cameras or even leave me sleep on the door map, just saw me how to shoot such photos, please enlighten me !

Thank you for sharing these photos with us.

Respect,

Nicholas.

Fabulous Gallery. Tremendous talent!