briand123

Hello diving photogs.  Just a heads up that the 100ft dive liveaboard "Ultimate Getaway"  is running a special trip Sept 5 - 8, 2013 to dive some great SW FL offshore wrecks known to harbor schools of Goliath Grouper.   These dates are right at the peak of expected aggregation maximum (new moon of Sept.)    I was on this boat in early Oct of 2010 with David Doubilet shooting Goliath images & video on the Baja California wreck for 2 days.   We saw dozens of clustered goliath eventhough peak aggregation was well over by then.  That trip inspired me to work with Ultimate Getaway to plan a dedicated trip targeted to finding goliath schools on SW FL wrecks.    Here is the link to details on the trip we came up with:

2013 Ultimate Getaway Goliath & Wreck Photo Trip

Regards,
Brian D.

I've completed my first 360 underwater video using multiple GoPro Hero2 cameras in a custom designed and built housing specific to this purpose. I made the first full test run with running cameras in October and unfortunately the vis was only 20 ft and I was at 70-80 fsw with fairly low light. So reds are absent even after an attempt at color correction in post. Here are links to two presentation formats:

Interactive 360 video version

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=POGVK9-jKiE

This is only a start. I plan to add radial lighting to the housing over the winter.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Brian