EOS 300D in the Med. Sea: Nudi

Hi,

I just came back from my trip to the beautiful island of Mallorca in the mediterranean sea.

I did my first dives with the EOS 300D and my new Ikelite housing + DS-50.

Pictures are taken with Canon 50mm maco lens. 1/50 and f/10.

Most are cropped, colour optimised and some backscatter removed.

Please give my some insight of what you think...

Thanks for the post. Truly gorgous photos all of them!

Tell us more about how you took these. I'm anxiously awaiting my own dSLR setup and any tips from your obvious success would be helpful.

You wrote in your post that they were taken at f/10 1/50, did you shoot manual? Did you set up this way and take all your macro shots this way? If so, it looks like a winning combination and helpful to remember. What was your distance? What was your strobe setting? Did you play around with different settings or was there one "right" setting that you always used?

How did you like the new rig? Any problems viewing through the eyepiece? Do you use a diopter and dome port with the 50 mm?

Thanks

very nice ascension of the nudi !!!!

crop it a little bit more and you'll have something to show !!!!!

Nice Nudi Christian! Too much water, you can crop it alitle more. It´s only my opinion :wink:

The name, Allways the same I know, is "Cratena peregrina" if you want to know more: http://marenostrum.org/vidamarina/animalia...grina/index.htm

@UWphotoNewbie

Actually I could only to very few dives so I decided up front that I would only use the 50mm macro and (after some suggestions from this community) go with 1/50 and f/10 as f/8 seemed not to have enough DOF for. I still feel that even at f/10 the DOF is far to narrow and will try it next time with much higher f-settings. No dome port for the macro, I choosed a (quitelong) flat port. I had another thread discussing my port choices to extreme detail :-))

Viewing to the camera is a real pain in "something". But that is not Ikes fault its just the way canon build it and that there is so much room (air/housing/water/mask/air) between your eye and the picture.

I am really glad that I choosed Ikes housing and would recommend it to anyone!

I just played again with the pic and gave it anarrower crop but I am unsure if I like it more...

Better the last one!

Christian,

From a neophytes point of view: When I look at nudibranch photos, I look for detail and color first, character second. The background detail is almost always a minor anoyance. The less distracting background the better. This nudi isn't perched on anything particularly interesting and s/he isn't posing, so I would prefer a tight crop and zoom in on the amazing detail . . . but that's just me. :shock:

Cheers,

S

Love the cropped image! The sharpness and color tones vs. the background appeals to me. I think it gives the nudi a "fragile" look. Very nice!