Grand Cayman Gallery from October

My gallery of selects from recent Grand Cayman trip is up, follow this link, to go have a look.

Basically, everything underwater was shot with the nikonos and 15mm lens on E100VS or the new velvia 100, everything above water was taken with F100 on E100VS.

As always, comments/criticism/dry retching sounds are appreciated.

V nice, Craig,

I particularly like the wide angle night time shots. I think that photographers don't shoot enough wide angle at night.

I gave it a go for the first time for coral spawning in GC - this is one of one of my shots taken with D100 and 17-35mm:

Alex

Hi Craig,

Good stuff - your wide angle has improved a LOT! I especially like the close focus shots of the reef clinging crab and the basket star. Did you ever take that 15mm lens off the camera? :-)

The tarpon at tarpon alley are a very nice composition on the diagonal, but a bit too much strobe power. These fish are damn near impossible to shoot because they are pretty much mirrors, eh?

It looks like you had great viz at stingray city and I like the shots there a lot as well. I hope you like the shot w/ Wendy the best...:-)

Cheers

James

Did you ever take that 15mm lens off the camera? :-)

There is no lens but the 15mm, and the 15mm is all... :ph34r:

I put a 24mm on it when travelling, and pack the 15mm separately with the end caps on it, so there is less weight on the lens mount. I have never taken a shot with a Nikonos without the 15mm lens.

Thanks for the comments.

These fish are damn near impossible to shoot because they are pretty much mirrors, eh?

Yep. According to the distance scales on the strobe, I was underexposing them by about a stop. I shot two whole rolls on tarpon, one at Tarpon Alley and one on the group that lives near Turtle Reef, and this is the best of a sad lot. I gave up after that.

Love the topside shots!

When shooting highly reflective fish like tarpon and jacks, I always put my strobe on the lowest setting, them bracket using f-stop.

Sometimes you end up with pretty bright fish and a pretty dark background - but then again, that usually looks nice...:-)

Here's a FGB shot taken with dual SS200's at minimum (1/8th???) power:

Cheers

James