SPG3K
Contributor
Here are some shots and some clips in a compilation from my recent trip out to the Gulf. Visibility was actually a lot better than what comes through on the video, also, my conversion software to FLV really destroys the original video.
You can see a few small flounder and some juvenile groupers, and several lionshead/lionsmane jellies.
During the one clip of the jelly when the camera jerks around - it's because I noticed I was hung up in the 6' long tentacles I couldn't originally see.
Criticism/Comments welcome. Please be gentle - this is the first real trip and first real shots/video I've taken with the new setup. My strobe broke about 6 days before the trip, so most of the shots are built-in flash only, and the current really kept my novice UW photography skills at bay for the most part, so none of the shots have crystal clear focus points at 100% crop.
Video
Pictures
Lessons Learned:
Slow down on panning the video camera to catch everything your eye can see - I almost got a little motion sickness the first time I reviewed all the footage.
The G9 built-in flash burns out macro shots, BIG TIME.
Fish will not generally sit still long enough to take macro shots.
Also - a funny story.
I was filming my friend playing with a few little hermit crabs, and he points off to my left. I turn around quickly, and evidently I startled the same purple trigger that is in one of the clips, and he quite literally head-butted my camera lens. My buddy heard the "clink" and looked over and nearly spit his reg out laughing.
Stupid triggers.
You can see a few small flounder and some juvenile groupers, and several lionshead/lionsmane jellies.
During the one clip of the jelly when the camera jerks around - it's because I noticed I was hung up in the 6' long tentacles I couldn't originally see.
Criticism/Comments welcome. Please be gentle - this is the first real trip and first real shots/video I've taken with the new setup. My strobe broke about 6 days before the trip, so most of the shots are built-in flash only, and the current really kept my novice UW photography skills at bay for the most part, so none of the shots have crystal clear focus points at 100% crop.
Video
Pictures
Lessons Learned:
Slow down on panning the video camera to catch everything your eye can see - I almost got a little motion sickness the first time I reviewed all the footage.
The G9 built-in flash burns out macro shots, BIG TIME.
Fish will not generally sit still long enough to take macro shots.
Also - a funny story.
I was filming my friend playing with a few little hermit crabs, and he points off to my left. I turn around quickly, and evidently I startled the same purple trigger that is in one of the clips, and he quite literally head-butted my camera lens. My buddy heard the "clink" and looked over and nearly spit his reg out laughing.
Stupid triggers.
