Galapagos with a Canon 1Ds

Hey, guys! I just got back from the Galapagos, where I gave the Canon 1Ds/Seacam combo a spin.

Photos at:

http://echeng.com/travel/galapagos2003/

I love this camera and housing. There was a bit of low-light color noise banding going on, but it was only in isolated circumstances. I'll post some samples when I have time!

School of salemas, at Isabela Island:

Very cool Eric!

The small hawkfish is called a "pixie hawk" I think, or "speckled hawk." You know how it is w/ common names.

Cheers

James

OK Eric, so tell us which it is: Either you never sleep or you travel with a full time secretary? How the hell you managed to get that all so neatly organised and posted in such a short period of time is beyond me!

Very interesting pictures and comments and great to have all the EXIf on hand. I was about to sell my old 20mm lens but I have changed my mind after seeing you put it to excellent use.

I notice you shot everything in manual exposure mode - just wondering why you prefer that for ambient light shots over AV mode ( plus some exposure compensation) Isn't it a hassle to constantly adjust shutter speed and aperature in manual mode to get the exposure you want? Of course you did it very well and seemingly can do the impossible...

Love the schooling fish shots and nice to see WA shots coming off well too.

Yep, it's a Pixie Hawkfish.

Would be interested to see the noisey shots, this was one thing I hated on mine especially at higher ISO's.

20mm is the Bread & Butter lens on 35mm - Maximum flexibility

Nice images Eric. Very nice

Very cool Eric!

 

The small hawkfish is called a "pixie hawk" I think, or "speckled hawk." You know how it is w/ common names.

 

Cheers

James

I was actually thinking about a dwarf hawkfish aka cirrhitichthys falco

The 'pixy hawkfish' aka 'coral hawkfish' is cirrhitichthys oxycephalus. I just found actually that the cirrhitichthys oxycephalus is also called spotted hawkfish (cirrhitichthys aprinus). That is curious because the spotted is supposed to have a distinguishable spot just behind the eye and cannot see any for sure in the pictures.

Fact is that normally the distribution of the dwarf does not include the Galapagos but does for the pixy...err..spotted

All I can say is that this is definitely a hawkfish

More exactly, it's a fish

Thanks for the id, guys.

By the way, I just uploaded a new version of the gallery that includes dive briefing drawings from our EXCELLENT guide, Antonio Moreano.

Yeah. I tend not to sleep much. And I am working on something all the time... and I don't watch TV. Lots of stuff gets done when you don't watch TV.

-e

Very cool shot!

He either dives or logs the days activities. I think I saw him eat once or twice.LOL

Very nice, Eric. Looks like you and Ken have forged quite the relationship. One of these days I'll get back out there. First, I have to earn a few more days (weeks) off . . .

I gave up TV after grad school and my productivity has gone up a lot.

Cheers

James

I gave up TV after grad school and my productivity has gone up a lot.

 

Cheers

James

This explains a lot

Thanks for the id, guys.

 

By the way, I just uploaded a new version of the gallery that includes dive briefing drawings from our EXCELLENT guide, Antonio Moreano.

 

Yeah. I tend not to sleep much. And I am working on something all the time... and I don't watch TV. Lots of stuff gets done when you don't watch TV.

 

-e

Great pics and report Eric! Really liked the schooling fish photos.

Some of your EXIF info is a little off. I noticed a couple of shots taken with a 3840mm lens.

We had Antonio Moreano for a guide on our trip last year. He's a nice guy and did a really great job.

My workflow involves copying EXIF data around. I messed up this time and had Photoshop rewrite some of the EXIF, and I believe the latest version of BreezeBrowser has a EXIF bug with certain cameras (Chris Breeze confirmed this, and should be fixing it in the next version).

So...

Until then, I will continue to shoot with my 3840mm lens.

So...

 

Until then, I will continue to shoot with my 3840mm lens.

I'll bet Craig has one of these lenses too!

eric thanks for posting your pics it gives me some thing to look at while at work keep up the good work

One word: WOW! What a great slide show.

Great as usual

Thank you for the beautiful pictures

Galapagus has been oficialy entered into my to do list (right after Palau)

Excellent shots - but we all expect that. The 1DS is pretty awesome. How do you think it handled sun-bursts and general highlight detail compared with your other Canon's?

Some images it looked a marked improvement, others it did not over the other Canon DSLRs.

Alex

Excellent shots - but we all expect that. The 1DS is pretty awesome. How do you think it handled sun-bursts and general highlight detail compared with your other Canon's?

 

Some images it looked a marked improvement, others it did not over the other Canon DSLRs.

 

Alex

Hi, Alex -

I debated posting that shot. I very much overexposed it, and had to underexpose the raw file during conversion to get it.

It shouldnt' have passed my filters.

Will do some sunburst tests soon...

I realised that was by far the worst example, and you would certainly end up with highlight woes if you took the same shot on film.

This shot has captured the sun in a very pleasing way.

Your land photography from the trip is also first class by the way.

Alex