Chris, great footage... you just made my morning out here (in Asia). Tigers, Lemons, and Dolphins... excellent!!

And my whole day here. What a superb piece of work. (Can you call that work?) Thanks Chris, beautiful! Thanks to all the folks for sharing such a great trip!
Steve

I am doing a Master in Holiday Management . Right now we are booked for a Cocos/Costa Rica trip in february (three weeks), and we are about to book for a JASA one in august (1.5 weeks) and we also need at least one week for uwp competitions (on one of which we got a prize of a week in Baja California that still do not know when we will have time for ). And in 2010 we will try to do sardine run expedition ...




I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for posting it!

Chris, that was truly fantastic. I am grinning ear to ear. Played beautiful in "large" format expanded on the 30" monitor. I feel like I was there. Once I show that to Colleen I know that this is going to be the next trip we take after Indonesia in 2009. Heck, she may force a trip before then....

As for you photographers caught on tape, why didn't I see your eyes to the viewfinder? Looked like a lot of people were shooting blind, just sticking their cameras out and hoping for the best while they kept their eyes on the prize. I assume Chris had his eyes to the viewfinder to get such beautiful footage!

Hi Chris,

As everyone else has said your vids are great. Really bring the trip back to life for me. I'm still dreaming of sharks a week later and of course working on my calendar to see when I can go again.


David - part of the safety briefing is to not look in the viewfinder for too long at any one time and to keep your eyes on any Tiger that is around. The other thing is that you are also told to keep upright and if the shark is right next to you to shoot low you have to hold the camera low. Jim A is the master of not looking in the viewfinder and just shooting from the hip. As the week went on we all started emulating him.

Chris was the lucky one with a lcd screen on the back of his housing so no tiny viewfinder to squint through !

Mark

One of the golden safety rules is don't get stuck in your viewfinder. Good to see that there is plenty of video of us doing the right thing!

Alex

I suppose it makes sense. I think I'd be afraid to block my vision swimming with the tigers. I guess you just have to give up composing the shot and hope you capture something interesting. I tried shooting from the hip a bunch of times with the reef sharks but I can't recall if I actually got any shots that way!

YEah, the trick is to aim for the body and not the head. If you aim for the head, you get lots of shots with the tail cut off and too much space in front of the shark!

Well Mike just about anything is a candidate weak link.

For the sharks on the sand you don't need TTL, in fact I have never used TTL for anything myself.

One of my strobes died on day 2 and I had to get along with just one for most of the trip, so maybe I should have had a spare strobe!

Your best bet is to have an idea of what you might do - before you need to do it.

Paul C

I have finally been able to get some images up from this trip. While I was a away in the Bahamas, my desktop computer had an encounter with a vase of flowers. Well specifically the water in the vase of flowers...

Anyway this is the first gallery I have made with the new computer and Photoshop CS3 (I hadn't upgraded on my old Mac) and they look slightly dark to me. I am not sure what the problem is, because the high res images, that I have sent out recently have all been fine.

The Gallery Info page is here, and it has links to the gallery of images.

Alex

And I have just tripped over this one of Alex, who just having his sync chord chewed in half is returning to the boat for a replacement.

No particular merit to the shot other than the dangling end of cable and onlooking Lemon shark who may or may not have a guilty grin.

Paul C

Stunning gallery...