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[Shoreliner11]

I'm here in Moorea doing some research and have had a couple chances to take my new housing and strobe out. Here are a couple of shots from my two outings. These are my first shots with a dslr in an underwater housing and it is definitely a learning process. These were all taken while snorkeling but hopefully I'll have a chance to take it out while diving so I can snap more than a couple shots on a dive down. I've also included a pic from the bungalow we're staying in at the research station.

Valentini puffer


Damsels over porites rus


Polychaete in porites lobata


nudi


clown and anemone


View from bungalow

Edited by Shoreliner11, 26 January 2010 - 02:23 PM.

[Autopsea]

Nice start. maybe you should try to shot from under the subject (freediving).
Is it a view from the GUMP?

[Shoreliner11]

Nice start. maybe you should try to shot from under the subject (freediving).
Is it a view from the GUMP?

I'm going to be trying just that this morning. I am at gump station and staying in the bungalow with the best view . Lucky me.

[Mike L]

Ahhh how I just love Moorea. Such an amazing place. Will you still be there in the late summer/early fall for the humpbacks?

[Shoreliner11]

Ahhh how I just love Moorea. Such an amazing place. Will you still be there in the late summer/early fall for the humpbacks?

Unfortunately no. I'll be making my way to Taiwan for a month in mid march to do some other lab/fieldwork which will be coming out of winter to early spring. Then again for a couple months in June/July. Should be an interesting experience nonetheless.

[Shoreliner11]

Some from today. I'm definitely noticing my # of decent shots (actually achieving focus point) is maybe 1 in 15...hopefully its better when I have a tank strapped to my back.

cushion star closeup


small scorpionfish in porites colony


boxfish

Edited by Shoreliner11, 27 January 2010 - 05:07 PM.

[Cal]

great!

I did some research on the ambon damselfish which are very similar to the damsels you've shown but yellow. When I saw that photo it brought back all sorts of horror images of sitting still for an hour or two filming them everyday for a month!!!!

Keep it up!

Cal

[diver dave1]

When I saw that photo it brought back all sorts of horror images of sitting still for an hour or two filming them everyday for a month!!!!
Cal

As I sit still in my cloth covered cube, 1000 miles from an ocean, I dream of the horror of sitting still in the ocean for hours watching and photographing most anything.