r-balljunkie
Registered Reefer
Yes, I'm going to post some more videos that elaborate more on how close reef corals and fish interact, especially the smaller fish. In some of the videos, you can see a single coral can cover an area like an open field, with schools of fish darting in and out of the single coral formation.
Its impossible to tell whats going on in the middle of such formations. I'm sure more than we will ever know.
Z, ur most welcome. I hope they're getting better.
envy? Meh, its give and take. I'm sure you hit up the starbucks drive thru sometime in the last few months, ordered a half caff double macchiato or a frappaccino, while texting someone..: > )
O, not a problem. Looks like Rashad didn't have the mojo with him. Those standing elbows are vicious. That's almost not defensible.
The time will come, I won't have this lifestyle. I'm truly appreciative of this experience, and will miss it when I'm gone.
It's really hard to get a picture of something so massive, as the colors quickly get washed out, and it will be a mass of blue only.. I don't have a James Cameron budget to afford such lighting (frigging football field in size, several stories tall). Since I'm getting more handy with the video's now, ill try to post a vid or two when I get a chance.
Pictures don't give you a representation on the size and scale of it.
Yes, makes you rethink a lot of things when you see it firsthand
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You're welcome.
Give and take my friend. I haven't sat down at a restaurant, have someone bring me my food in some time. It's the little things you miss
Nope. Same camera, olympus xz-1. like ive stated, this camera can do much much more than i know, a bit of a learning curve for me. I got the light attachment in. I have a Sola 600 dive light that can be used as a video light as well.
Did some reading up, and figured out how to set the white balance to shoot videos. Have to say, wow what a difference, huh?
:thumbsup:
Nah, no experiments. Just tooling around having fun. There's such a variety of corals, I wouldn't know where to start to stage and gage growth. Corals that grow on the lagoon side and this close to shore are the easier more prolific (hardier) variety. There's too many factors involved to do something like this.
Yes, corals and clams exposed at low tides are interesting, indeed.
Oceanview, the HR process is weird out here. Please keep this in mind.
Ill shoot you a PM to give you the run down. Most of us out here aren't doing exactly what we did in the states, so a bit of flex and imagination is needed looking at jobs. We are in dire need for a structural engineer, and another mechanical engineer with strong airside experience.
I was hoping to put off an update until I got back from Pohnpei, leaving in a couple of days"¦"¦"¦.got excited that I actually shot some video worth posting. Sorry for the ridiculous sizing of the videos. I've been working feverishly on finding a program that can reduce the file sizes.
Youtube is the simple answer, but we can't have simplicity here, we have to overcomplicate things (no Youtube access at work, no high speed at home, sigh)
I'm shooting in HD, so that's part of the problem. I figured out the white balance thing, got a good light"¦.wallllaaa. betta videos. These first sets are an easy walk in dive. It's the second closest ship wreck to me.
These videos are from a basic walk in dive around 40'-50' of water, so basic there's was a couple of eleven year old kids on the dive with us.
They em start early out here.
I'm so used to doing "˜technical' and deep wreck dives on the weekends; you forget how beautiful and fun a simple walk in dive can be.
For those of you with the patience, or have a speedy connection, enjoy the remaining videos.
Ill put a little narrative before each one, let you know what to look for and caveat the fact....
these are my first real attempts at shooting underwater video...please bare with me and if you have some tips for me, by all means...im all ears!
Enjoy.
Recap of previous video, around the bow of the wreck, then i swim upside down to show the underside and the corals that grow in the absence of direct light, including some monticaps. lots of non-light needing corals i.e. sun corals attached.
#2 Video
cruising dow the side of the top rail of the wreck. its amazing the coral coverage you get on some of these wrecks. note all the damsels darting in and out of the corals.
#3 video
Top deck of the wreck. notice the ninja dissapear moves by the fish, and the blue damsels and the neon blue tinge to the lower fin area
#4 Video
onto a nearby coral head. notice the lettuce looking corals the dominate, and flowing nature of the lobo formations
notice the change in elevation, going from top to bottom.
#5 Video
zoomed back to give you the scale of how large a single coral formation can get.
cardinals anyone?
#6 Video
clownfish and bubble tips in the corals . its kinda like double protection.
as you can see the single stripe clown variety is the most dominant here.
ocean side, clowns get HUGE. easily the size of a mans hand.
#7 Video
Anemone with skunk clowns. i really want to catch me a couple, but meh, tend to leave them alone. look at the size of the tabling acro. believe it or not, they get much much bigger
#8 Video
Peek a boo with the fish, plate/fungia corals anyone?
