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Quite a few times I have already seen the question asked where to go for the next diving holiday. Since this is one of my favourite questions to ask myself as soon as I'm back home I  decided to write an article on this exact topic of ho I choos my diving   destinations and which factors are important to me when I plan them. You   can find the article on my website. It includes also a few spots I have personally already been (of course with links to my portfolio) or places which were recommended.
  
Let me know what you think about it and if you have other recommendations!
  
  Thomas

Hey out there!

Finally got my housing for the Nikon D90 and still trying to find out (until August) what the best lenses are. Read a lot about it. The statements so far:
- Tokina 10-17 f3.5-4.5 (which I bought since I wanted a fisheye anyway ;-))
- 60mm, don't have anything like that at all (what for? I'm not such a big of a fan of fix focal distance lenses)
- 16-85mm (already had that)

Maybe some more information about my goals in photography. As you can see on my website I have done quite a bit of photography of corals and things on the reef. Since I will be in places where you - fingers crossed - get to see big fish I would like to get the right equipment before I go there. The animals will be quite close (within 3-60ft distance to the diver). And for your information: no they will not be attracted with anything, they're just there. Is the fisheye there any good or do I need the 16-85

An other question which comes with the equipment: how do you transport all these things. So far this was not a big problem since I had my Pelican 1500 case to use for the housing and camera. With the underwater equipment for the DSLR it's a bit more difficult. I would like to have it as my carry-on baggage since this is just too much money to be wasted by someone throwing the case around ;-) Any recommendations on that front?

Thanks anyway for your help!

Thomas

hey there!

at the moment i am still doing my photography with a canon g10 (ikelite housing and ds-160 substrobe) since i have not found anything close to thesese functionalities from Nikon... unfortunately! but so far i am happy with the photos i have taken underwater.

i am seriously thinking about getting a housing for my D90 since I would like to focus more on the photography-part while diving. what would you recommend as a housing?

the next question would be which lenses would you use for macro and/or big fish photography? what would you recommend? (also the ports of course). at the moment i do have a nikkor 16-85mm 1:3.5-5.6 and a nikkor 70-300 (which i obviously will not use underwater ;-))

by the way all the other photos taken on my website on land are all made with my D90.

thanks already for your help!

Thomas

hey there!

since i'm new to this forum i just wanted to post my gallery i have on the web with underwater photos.

feel free to comment and maybe also give me tips what could be done better on a future trip.

most of these pictures have been taken with a Canon G10 in an Ikelite housing with an Ikelite DS-160 substrobe. this setup works just fine for me and i also just bought a spare G10... since mine died on the last trip (and a friend was able to repair it).

let me know what you think about the photos and nice weekend with a lot of diving to everyone! ;-)

Thomas

After a few weeks of diving and about 500 pictures taken down there the pictures on my page are the ones I can definitely say I'm fine with ;-)

See my pictures here and feel free to criticise... but ONLY if you find the stonefish ;-)

There are some fish-pictures in an other album but not too many.

Thomas