Underwater Images from Roatan

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Stayed with Fantsy Island. I'll post a full trip report eventually but for now I wanted to share some of my underwater images. Enjoy.

Sad to photograph a Lionfish in the Caribbean

Lost count after a dozen or so seahorses

 

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[Didje]

Wow, very impressive! Keep 'em coming! Looking forward to your review as well. Cheers!

 

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Mary's Place

 

[tbrads]

those are fantastic, thanks for sharing.

 

[Dive n00b]

Wow man... those are some of the cleanest u/w images I've ever seen!

I was in Roatan last week... took my first stab at u/w photography... needless to say, I didn't get results anywhere near yours. Its much tougher than it looks.

Away on business now, but will post up a trip report and some of my pics when I get back. Its better to leave a little time between my post and yours... would be embarrassed to have my picture thread on the same page as yours.

What were you shooting with btw? Do any post processing on those?

 

[Sloeber]

Wow man... those are some of the cleanest u/w images I've ever seen!

I was in Roatan last week... took my first stab at u/w photography... needless to say, I didn't get results anywhere near yours. Its much tougher than it looks.

Away on business now, but will post up a trip report and some of my pics when I get back. Its better to leave a little time between my post and yours... would be embarrassed to have my picture thread on the same page as yours.

What were you shooting with btw? Do any post processing on those?

Thank you for the much appreciated compliments.

UW photography is very difficult. The best advice I can give is go digital and never stop pulling that shutter

My rig is actually pretty old by modern standards. It is a Nikon 5700 and IIRC about 8 years old or so. Also only a single Ikelite DS50 strobe. Would love to add a second DS160, but wow @ those prices. Only a 5 megapixel camera, but when I consider the cost of upgrading versus the results I currently get, I just can't see spending the money. Maybe I'll get "lucky" and it'll sink to the abyss on my next trip and DAN will buy me a new rig But for this weekend warrior its a mighty fine camera for my needs. Just wish I had more opportunity to use it naturally.

I don't often do any photo editting. Naturally I do some cropping or resizing, but sometimes I use Photoshop and do the "Auto Levels." Sometimes it works well, sometimes it kills the image. I do not adjust the photos beyond that simple one click option. I just don't have the time to mess around with it. I find the learning curve on my camera easier than Photoshop

Thanks agian for the compliments! I still have some more images to post from my week in Utila so keep an eye out for those in the coming week or so.

 

[DandyDon]

Very nice shooting. :medal:

 

[deeper thoughts]

Thnx for the pix