Blue Heron Bridge

I had a chance to do a few dives at the bridge around a month ago - and I'm still in shock. Talk about subject overload... it's a shame that diving is limited to the two high slack tides each day/night.

Here's a little selection of images from the trip. They're all taken during day dives, except the scorpionfish eye which was on a 3am night dive:

Stunning images as always, really difficult to say which one I like the most of this group. Beautiful.

Killer shots! The octopus eye does it for me.

The Sailfin Blenny is just spectacular. Single strobe?

GAH! these are fantastic!

Sailfin blenny for me too..... such an incredible pic

The octopus eye is gorgeous as well

Cal

Beautiful shots Keri

Sailfin Blenny is outstanding. Very unique. Great series.

Amazing images Keri!

Can't pick a favourite - they are all great!

What focus light did You use?

Karel

Very nice indeed. The blenny is excellent. And I like the octopus eye, which I think works well with the lighting. I'm presuming that the lighting is courtesy of a new Subsee product... [edit] I meant ReefNet product (wrong brand name)...

Alex

Come-on Mr. Wilk share the lighting thing with us. Snoot?

All those shots are just AWESOME

Nige Wade

Wow!

Really cool images. Loved them all.

I love the photographs!

Mood-lighting, Wow! My votes for some sort of ReefNet *Snoot* to debut at DEMA?

Cheers, Carol

Thats got to be some of the "snoot work" you eluded to last time we spoke...very nice! I may try to squeeze in BHB a few days before DEMA.

Octo eye is stunning.

I suck. Nothing more to be said.

Cheers, Keri,

Marli

Awesome/amazing/moresynonymsforawesomeandamazing stuff dude!

Phenomenal, fantabulous.......inspirational..

Cheers,

Diggy

Great pictures! I have been experimenting with very thin/small diameter snoots but never worked out like this and were very difficult to point. You have me thinking on how/what did you use for this lighting!

Wow! Thanks for all the encouraging comments and kind words everyone... very much appreciated!

A few of you folks have guessed correctly - these are all using a custom designed snoot that I put together. It looks like crap, but works pretty well. The snoots fit over my DS125s and can produce beams of light anywhere from 12-inch diameter all the way down to about 2-3mm diameter.

As for this becoming a product - maybe some time in the future, but these things I'm lugging around are sort of heavy, ugly, and just so stupid looking that they'd probably scare more people away than they'd attract. Not dismissing the possibility of redesigning it though, just not sure if the demand is there to warrant production.

davichin - you're right, they can be difficult to aim, but when you nail a shot with them, it can really turn out well! Each of the shots posted took between 30-120 minutes to shoot.

Here are a couple more snooty shots showing the tip of the lighting rig:

Horseshoe crab eye

Nikon D300, 105mm lens, +10 diopter SubSee

1/250, f20, ISO200

 

Horseshoe crab eye with snoot

Nikon D300, 105mm lens

1/60, f14, ISO200

 

 

 

The same tube worm from above, with snoots showing (those are 8mm thick pen bodies)

Nikon D300, 105mm lens

1/320, f22, ISO200

And here are a couple more that I think turned out well:

Keri

Dang Keri those are nice

matt