Some new Bali u/w shots in my gallery

[frogfish 5]

The pix at the top of the Bali page were all taken on a lovely long-week-end worth of dives in late November with Avandy Djunaidi (Bali International Dive Professionals), at Tulamben, Ahmed and Kubu.

 

The good news is that the Drop-off at Tulamben, which was badly damaged by silt after heavy rains last February, is finally coming back. Lots of fish life there on this trip.

 

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Robert Delfs

[Cybergoldfish 1]

Best shots I've yet seen out of an S2 - Great Job!!!

[herbko 0]

Beautiful shots. I like the Emperor Anglefish. David (Patterns) will be jealous.

 

All the silvery fish have pink and purple colors. Did you use a filter?

[Patterns 0]

It's true, I'm jealous about the juv emperor angelfish. I probably shouldn't reveal that I had to do a lot of work to make the image in my avatar usable even at this resolution! (Although my defense is that I took teh shot with a P5 with a foggy houssing.)

 

The painted frogfish is really very red ... I don't have one that colour. Yet.(?)

 

-David

[frogfish 5]

Thanks all for kind comments.

 

Herbko: no filter, but I did use a bit of channel mixer and some curves on the blue backgrounds, and I may have overdid it. I could see the pinkish cast on the silver scales on a few of the shots when I looked at the screen in a different light than when I did the processing, but was too lazy to go back and redo them.

 

Patterns: Those were the luckiest shots I've ever had of a juvenile emp ang. He was much more cooperative and willing to pose than any I'd come across before.

 

The red frogfish is the reddest frogfish I've ever seen. It was very small, and sitting in front of Tauch Terminal at Tulamben in only about 9 meters depth of water. The yellow one was larger and only a few meters away, so I assume they were a mating pair, and that the red one was the male. Unfortunately, they both have moved on.

 

Robert Delfs