28/30 april in st abbs

[markbsac]

just done two days diving up at st abbs with rob cuss i took a few pics with my fuji fd31 non edited except for the first two (first time ive edited a pic by the way) on the whole im not that happy as there is a lot of scatter on the wrasse pics but there are a few nice annenomes and urchin shots i think.....well have a look hope you like them.

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mark

[TimIngmire]

Hi Mark,

These are very nicely lit shots especially considering that you are using the internal flash on the camera. The close-ups are well done. The fish shots are always going to be a challenge given the flash - the backscatter aside I think the composition in them is good.

Time for a camera / strobe upgrade?

Tim

[markbsac]

hi tim

many thanks for the comments....as for an upgrade im a happy snapper mate..i have no great ideals of being the next top underwater phot...it just takes away some of the boredom of diving i love to dive first and foremost but if i see a pic to be taken i snap away...i do try to think about the composision......but the camera settings are beyond me so i let the camera do the work......

[Cussy]

Don't want to steal Mark's thunder, but here are my efforts:



Following things I've heard in talks by Alex Mustard and Martin Edge I did some experimentation with off camera flash. I still had them on the sync cord, so things aren't totally backlit, but still got some good effects. These are probably the best 2. Will try this some more with proper off camera flash when I go back to St Abbs in June:


There are more at Cussy/2008/04_St_Abbs - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (including lots of photos of Mark)

Rob

[simonmort]

Some very nice images there rob.
The diver one seems strange, looks like a black and white image, but the colour stands out on the union jack and various other little bits.

Love the small crab? or is he some thing different.
simon.

[Cussy]

Originally Posted by simonmort

The diver one seems strange, looks like a black and white image, but the colour stands out on the union jack and various other little bits.

Mark asked me to do a photo where he could proudly show his union flags off! I shot 5, 3 of which I got the exposure totally wrong - this was one of them. The image looked a bit washed out so in Lightroom I've desaturated everything other than red - it's an effect I though Mark would really like!

Originally Posted by simonmort

Love the small crab? or is he some thing different.

This was tiny, I think it's a baby Dublin Bay Prawn, but I could be wrong. We saw very few crabs or Lobsters, usually St Abbs is full of them.
Rob

[zan]

Nice photos! That 'prawn' is a squat lobster, probably Galathea intermedia. Apparently they're very common, but only grow to 18mm (carapace length) so they're pretty small. Nice find!

Zan

[paramedic paul]

Some good photo's there from both of you, i'm up that way this weekend so we'll see what luck this happy snapper has!