A few more HI photos

[philter4]

Just went through my HI photos, I took just under 300, but I'm not a very good photographer but only 1/3 rd of those are worth looking at, here are a few more, and one shot of some of the wrasses we collected.

Here is a shot of a potters and a juv cleaner wrasse, we were at around 80 ft and needed a flash to show the potters colors

A reef shot

Blue octocoral, as long as you don't take rock this is one of only 2 legal corals to collect

Juv convict tang

Saddleback wrasse eating an urchin

Here is a cardinal

Here is a collection bucket with some potters angels and wrasses

 

[aquariumclown]

Nice collection!

Where in HI were you? I was diving at Oahu's north shore a month ago.

 

[sunfishh]

As usual great pics Philter :thumbsup:

 

[philter4]

Aquariumclown, this trip we only dove the north, the whole time I was there the south wasn't divable because of the winds. I'll try to go back in the winter because I want some more flame wrasses and I only know of them to the south.

Sunfish, thanks for the comments, but IMO I suck at photography, I need to practice more, but when I'm down there I just want to catch the stuff so I don't even think of a picture most of the time

 

[aquariumclown]

Ok so I was in the north shore also. Were the pics taken at Shark's cove or somewhere else?

 

[philter4]

Aquariumclown, the convict tang and the blue octocoral were in the tidepool at sharks cove, but the others were taken at different dive sites along the north shore. We did 5 tanks a day, moving east and west along the shelf between 80 and 150 ft. The last photo was some of the catch back on the boat. I took over 250 photos (270 something) but of those only about 100 were good enough to show off, for instance I took 2 of a really cool jellyfish that was travelling along the bottom at 80 ft and the camara wouldn't focus on the jelly, just the background so I have a great shot of the rock with an out of focus fuzzy thing in the foreground. ALso if you look at the first post, the photo of the 4 line wrasse, it took about 12 shots of missing it or out of focus, or 1 or 2 with no flash so it is in the dark, just to get one that was pretty good. Also my camara isn't a great camara for small things, and it is hard to see what is in the frame while it is in the waterproof case so there are lots of shots of tails or heads, some of bellies, stuff like that where I got the focus, but missed the fish in the frame. I just need more practice, and maybe a better camara.

 

[SPSpirate]

wow..looks like a lot of fun!!like the blue cloves up under that rock....

 

[aquariumclown]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15494894#post15494894 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by philter4
Aquariumclown, the convict tang and the blue octocoral were in the tidepool at sharks cove, but the others were taken at different dive sites along the north shore. We did 5 tanks a day, moving east and west along the shelf between 80 and 150 ft. The last photo was some of the catch back on the boat. I took over 250 photos (270 something) but of those only about 100 were good enough to show off, for instance I took 2 of a really cool jellyfish that was travelling along the bottom at 80 ft and the camara wouldn't focus on the jelly, just the background so I have a great shot of the rock with an out of focus fuzzy thing in the foreground. ALso if you look at the first post, the photo of the 4 line wrasse, it took about 12 shots of missing it or out of focus, or 1 or 2 with no flash so it is in the dark, just to get one that was pretty good. Also my camara isn't a great camara for small things, and it is hard to see what is in the frame while it is in the waterproof case so there are lots of shots of tails or heads, some of bellies, stuff like that where I got the focus, but missed the fish in the frame. I just need more practice, and maybe a better camara.

That's awesome. 5 Tanks a day seems like a lot to me, I was pretty tired after 2 tanks. lol. I know what you mean, you can't always capture nearly what you want to in pictures. I'm too busy enjoying the dive to take pictures. But maybe I'll take up underwater photography down the road when I'm more experienced. Thanks for sharing. Just curious, what kind of camera did you use?

 

[philter4]

The camara is an Olympus 7.1 with an olympus underwater case, rated to 100meters (300 ft+) As far as # of tanks, when you are working you have to be underwater as long as possible to make money, makes for a long and tiring day, but well worth the effort.