Hey guys, just got finished with a trip I had to take to Japan. I was fortunate enough to get some bottome time with 5 dives. Here is a link to the pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maholla...7623287271004/


Sorry there are so many of them and they are big, it would be a pain in the *** for me to post them all from hotel loby computer. So post the ones up you like.

Tell me what you think

Mike

 

Dood! I'm speechless. These are some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Must have been amazing first person.

 

Nice pictures!

 

damn they look like they could be jewelries! lol nice work! What did you use for the underwater shots?

 

Nothing special, just a cannon point and shoot I borrowed from a friend in an underwater enclosure. Didnt use a remote flash, just a difuser over the built on flash. I would have gotten better light with my setup but it was stolen out of my hotel room the first week I was here. Filed a police report and filing a claim against the hotel. So I think Im getting my money back for that.

Yeah a remote flash and a camera Im use to would have given me a better depth of field, better lighting (remote flash), and an over all more detailed picture. The only post preduction I did on these was balance the color levels and adjust the contrast just a tad to make them more vibrant. At 60+ feet photography is a whole new ball park. All the reds, oranges, and yellows, bleach out to a muttled brownish blue so you NEED a flash. Not only that you need it to difuse just right, be with in its field and have ZERO bounce from anything arround it. extra bounce makes all the little suspended particles sparkle like crazy and give you specs every where. Outside of the flash zone all the colors bleed out again as you can see in the coral fields picture.

In the end you just have to develope an eye and know what shade go with what surface colors and the limits of your equipment. Underwater is way less forgiving than on the surface.