Photos from the Great Barier Reef

I love Australia - It is awsome...I never want to dive in the caribbean again.

This week after a quick test I decided to quit screwing around with eTTL for wide angle and fortunately the 1 dive with eTTL didnt make me forget how to use manual.

WA akindynos clownfish

cleaner wrass

For macro I stuck with eTTL and I dont regret it one bit.

Cardinel Butt

Raindford Goby

Long skiny fish

Curious melanopus

melanopus portrate

Oh yeah Baby!!

Nice work. I particularly like the lighting on the clowns and also the wide angle's are superb - glad you didn't forget the manual techniques.

Thanks very much for sharing!

The WA anemone shot is awesome......thanks for posting

That's a classic fish butt shot

Looks like eTTL was spot on for macro....congrats Ike

Karl

Good work, William.

In you macro shots I think that your strobe is going slightly over the top of your subjects. You are still getting plenty of light on the subject, but to be hyper-critical, I find the backgrounds a bit bright and thus distracting.

Alex

i agree with alex ... but the first macro clown fish works better due to the depth of field effect eliminating the background more. In the second though hypercritically as it is slightly more in focus it would be nice to see it less as you do kinda look at it to see what is there.

I also like the first wa anenome shot. it's that kinda shot that makes me miss australia too ... that and the giant clams, oh and the very friendly remoras that used to tickle my inner thigh on dives.

Great shots. The first one is my favorite.

I did my first and only trip to Australia last November. I know what you mean about going back to the Carribean.

great pix!

Beside the very nice macro stuff, first one is my fav. . The wideangle view (what focal length did you use?) gives a nice perspective in conjunction with the small clown in the foreground. Very nice composition!

(manual strobing rocks B) )

Julian

Good work, William.

 

In you macro shots I think that your strobe is going slightly over the top of your subjects. You are still getting plenty of light on the subject, but to be hyper-critical, I find the backgrounds a bit bright and thus distracting.

 

Alex

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i agree with alex ... but the first macro clown fish works better due to the depth of field effect eliminating the background more. In the second though hypercritically as it is slightly more in focus it would be nice to see it less as you do kinda look at it to see what is there.

 

I also like the first wa anenome shot. it's that kinda shot that makes me miss australia too ... that and the giant clams, oh and the very friendly remoras that used to tickle my inner thigh on dives.

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Thank you both for being hypercritical. . If you guys arent critical theres no way I can improve. I will work on both of your suggestions. More carful strobe placement to get less light on the background though I think that will be difficult with the wide beam of DS-125's as well as try to get down lower so the background if farther away wich will help to get the background less in focus for Giles as well as darker for Alex.

great pix!

 

Beside the very nice macro stuff, first one is my fav. . The wideangle view (what focal length did you use?) gives a nice perspective in conjunction with the small clown in the foreground. Very nice composition! 

(manual strobing rocks  B)  )

Julian

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Lens was Sigma 15mm fisheye. The clownfish is only 4 or 5 inches from the port.

Its funny how the fisheye makes land scenes look so distorted yet underwater it feals so natural. I tryed defishing this picture and it really makes things look distorted. It makes me wonder if I really want a wide rectalinear for underwater.

corner performance is great in this shot. Fisheyes simply perform great in this term. I always prefer the fisheye when I don't need the flexebility of the rectalinear wideangle (zoom). :-)

Julian