Raja Ampat photos

kneptoon · Jan 22, 2009

I posted a trip report a few weeks ago from our Dec. '08 Raja Ampat trip aboard the MSY Seahorse. Here are a few of the photos my wife took. This is our second trip with an UW camera. These are shot with a Olympus 770 using just the internal flash.

Snapper school

Hard coal with damsel fish

Pygmy seahorse

Crocodile fish

Scorpion fish

Blue spotted stingray

Nudibranch

Manta

Harlequin ghost pipefish

Woebegone

Yellow box fish

False clownfish

Malene · Jan 23, 2009

Thanks !
Great pictures...
What is the Olympus 770 ? I mean is it a bridge camera, a small one ?

kneptoon · Jan 23, 2009

The camera is an Olympus Stylus 770SW. A point and shoot digital. The housing is also Olympus. It is very compact even with the housing. We got an Ikelite strobe but were not adept at using it. So everything is shot with the internal strobe. We are at the bottom of the learning curve. We don't want the photography to be reason we are diving.

OnTheSpot · Jan 29, 2009

Wow, great shots - much better than I anticipated from the little point-and-click. Do you remember what depth you were at when you took the first two snaps, the mantas and the Harlequin ghost pipefish respectively? Also, are the pix directly from the camera, or did you do any software adjustments?

Anyhoo - nice collection of critters, thanks for sharing!

kneptoon · Jan 31, 2009

The first two shots were around 20m as were all of the manta shots. In fact most everything is between 25 and 15m. I ran the photos through the Apple program Aperture and "enhanced" them. Basically taking some of the green out and adding more blue and red.

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