A few photos from Anilao Batangas

Here are some of my favorite photos.

Woody Diopter and Closeup filters were used to get these tight shots. Except the first image I used a 10-22 wide angle lens on that one. He was huge.

Beautiful Jeff! I'm in love with the third image. Everthing about it is perfect. At first blush these have a lot of contrast on my screen. Are you doing something different in processing? It might be me, too much partying last night .

Steve

I really like the directional lighting on the stonefish. Really nice.

Alex

Steve

To create these high contrast images - I started using Custom Picture Style from Canon. Instead of the standard "Portrait, Standard, Landscape and etc"

http://web.canon.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/index.html

You can upload up to 3 into your custom settings for your Canon 40d.

Read the instruction on how to upload them to your camera.

Autumn - works great for Pygmy Seahorses

Nostalgic - works best when shooting wide angle - it gives a ghostly look which I like.

Thank you Dr. Alex

Cheers

Jeff

One of my favorite pictures - but this was shot in Davao (Samal Island)

Is the first fish a Stargazer or a stone fish? any way great shot! DO you have any good advice on where to stay or who to dive with in Anlio, I have spent a lot of time in Sabang, and I would be interested in doing Anlio someday but I would like to make sure I end up diving with a nice operation, and that I get good value. In Sabang I pay P900/dive tops and I get to dive my gauge and my computer with no hassles.

Most of the places I see on the internet in Anlio seem to want to charge more? I would like your input.

According to my friends it is a

Synanceia verrucosa

It was huge about the size of a basket ball buried in the sand.

Sir I don't know the policy about giving advice about things like that. So I just send you a PM instead.

I love the third one too. The color and composition is perfect.

Personally, I wanted to get more depth of field but my YS-110 Strobes just couldn't cut it.

Here is a bigger image size....

Beautiful shots Jeffrey. I can't wait to come to Anilao!! Thanks for sharing!

Mike

Excellent shots Jeff!

Nice to see here Jeff,,,All those Photos are Great,,,Show more photos:)

A few more of my favorite from 2007