Alex's Birthday!

Happy birthday Alex! To do this properly you need to do 30 shot, and then go to a bar with your buddies and do the same.

Happy Birthday Alex and welcome to the 30's!!

It's always a pleasure to see your work. And I mean that literally, it really pleases the viewer to see such a nice combination of aesthetics and technique.

Peace,

David.

Hiya Alex,

Happy 30. Excellent images. I particularly partial to the mating shot. Hope the next 12 months are even better for you

Cheers,

Tony

Happy Birthday Alex,

An fantastic selection of images, truly inspirational. You have had a great year.

The top down view on the clownfish is my personal favourite - it is a technique I have seen used on hammers and other sharks but never on anything smaller. I am going to have to have a go. Was there much post production to get the image to its present state?

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. And Joe, thanks for the tip! Here are some of the shots from last night. Note the top down camera angle - most creative!

I would post an image of me - but they are all too incriminating!

Alex

Wishing you a happy belated Alex, Great job with the Digital Jam in Cayman!!! Katie and I had a blast and looking forward to our trip with Nekton!! Can't wait for the second annual jam! Enjoy the weekend....

Do something nice for yourself.....GO DIVING!!

Aurabest,

john

Happy birthday.

Great selection of shots.

Alex, joyeux anniversaire mon ami, the last shot puzzle me, you are 30 and are still getting drunk on milk? :wink: damm you, still just a kid, you will be hell to reckon with when you turn 50 like us old farts!

Cheers and for the record, i am enjoying a pint of guinness to your health right this moment.

Some lovely pix, Alex. Happy birthday.

Frogfish (Robert)

Congrats on turning 30 Alex!

Thanks for sharing your stunning images, truly inspirational.

Keith

Happy Birthday Alex, excellent 8 photos!

the school of snappers is an amazing photo!

Guess i'm a touch late, out of the loop as always, but happy b day ya old fart! I recall 30 quite well, was the year i moved to Tahiti in fact, hence the name Tahiti...

Great bunch of photos, was also wondering why you are drinking milk shots...whatever happened to Jaeger and Tequila?

Mike

Hi Alex

Can you tell me how you go about shooting a portfolio. How do you approach it, is it well thought out before the time?

Thanks

Paul

Thanks for all the birthday wishes.

Hi Paul, there are many types of portfolios. I was working on a themed portfolio - where all the images are related. Basically I wanted to produce 6 different interpretations of the same subject matter.

When a portfolio is to be viewed/judged as a whole it is important that the pictures work together - rather than it just be a collection of your 6 or 8 best shots. When the subject matter is the same in each picture I feel that the trick is to try and make each image different. When the subject matter is different then you must look for other themes to bind the portfolio together. For example search for subjects with similar colours, shapes or take images with similar compositions etc.

A portfolio that represents your work - that is to be viewed sequentially is very different. And is much more about showing the quality, originality and diversity of photographs.

Alex

Happy birthday Alex!

Very nice pics!!

Hi Alex

Thanks for the response. The reason I asked the question is that in May we have our annual underwater shootout here in South Africa at Sodwana Bay and this year there is talk of using portfolio as the subject. This is a new concept to me as I have never done anything like that before. I will need to put some thought into what I want to shoot.

Thanks

Paul

I met two of your fellow BSoUP members by the name of Janet and Mike Maloney last year at Wakatobi. Not sure if you know them but if you do please tell them I say hi.

Just a quick format note: I was able to reload the original images in this thread my changing the "img" to "IMG". Alex

You don't have to change the "img" to "IMG". Simply editing the message and re-saving will work!