Solomon Islands gallery

Hi all, I just put a gallery online with images of our latest solomon islands trip. Still have to edit captions

Cor

Cor:

Beautiful stuff as always. Sorry I had to miss the trip. Hope to see you and Julie for the Shearwater Oceanic Whitetips trip in May.

Doug

Unfortunately im not going on the ocean whitetip trip. Only Julie is. Im going on the tigers & dolphins (and julie as well). I just didnt feel like 2 trips.

Cor

Ditto what Doug said......beautiful stuff. I specially liked the narrow DOF stuff. I'd love to see COR_20070918_23618.jpg and COR_20070917_23469.jpg in a larger version. It's interesting that you used a large aperture with a fast shutter speed.

Well, here's the goby. This is a shrimp goby, and the depth of field is intentional, I knew I was going to shoot this before I went into the water. I have plenty of images of shrimp gobies in all shapes and forms, even with nudibranchs attached to them, but this time I wanted a different angle. So I tried a very small depth of field, fast shutter speed to get something that at least resembles sharpness, and my strobes on the lowest setting. I thought it makes what is usually a bit of a boring (although interesting for behavior) image somewhat nicer. Hope this is large enough, smugmug doesnt do anything larger and allow a watermark still

Cor

ps: this image is as-is. Not cropped, unedited except for color balance and sharpening. Taken with a 105mm + 1.4 TC.

Wow, these are beautiful - some wonderful compositions, and I really like the creative use of DOF as well.

WOW!! great set

Really nice stuff, Cor.

I like the pink background on the whip coral shrimp. Cool.

Alex

A great collection of images - I couldn't pick a favourite!

Reminded me of my trips to the Solomons, you've captured a real sense of place, which is really cool