St Abbs

[DDT uk]

As Rob has said, we have been up in St Abbs for most of the week diving. Whilst Maria and I didn't manage to see the gillimotes diving underwater () we did see plenty of other bits and pieces. Here is a selection.

[Cussy]

I've only processed day 1's photos so far, oh yes, and the bird shots. So here is the best bird shot:



Rob

[DDT uk]

i am not talking to you

[triplefin]

Some brilliant shots Daniel- lovely pipefish

[Cussy]

Finally processed all the photos and there are many I'm really happy with. Here are my 10 favourites:


The back-lighting experiments had very mixed results. I had a lot of problem with the buoyancy of the strobe, but also how powerful they are. It was fun experimenting, even though a large number of shots are as bad as my old Nikonos 4 days!!
Rob

[Tazzie]

Oooo some really interesting and exciting images there chaps - looks like a good time was had!

[Annie S]

I'm jealous....so jealous.

[TimIngmire]

Well done chaps, a very nice series of photos from both of you.

Tim

[simonmort]

Very nice set of pictures guys.
Daniel love the pipefish, Rob love the shrimp image wouldnt of minded seeing a bit more of him.

The thing i find interesting, is to see the different colours, between the two wolf fish shots?

simon.

[Cussy]

Originally Posted by simonmort

Rob love the shrimp image wouldnt of minded seeing a bit more of him.

This is a crop, ripping off a compostition of Tazzie's I think Vis round the Prawns was pretty awful and as I've got loads of shots from previous trips to St Abbs I was trying to do different things.

Originally Posted by simonmort

The thing i find interesting, is to see the different colours, between the two wolf fish shots?

We both talked about this in St Abbs. It did look like there were differences between what Daniel's D70 and my D80 were getting. At the Farnes Daniel briefly leant me his Sigma 100-300 with 1.4x converter on to get a decent closeup of a Puffin. Looking through these shots there is a significant difference in colour saturation between what the Sigma achieved and the Nikon 18-200 I normally use top side. So the difference may come from the lens. Although I'd guess most of it is from processing in Lightroom. I've re-WBed the shot, maybe Daniel hasn't? I've also upped the saturation a bit (well maybe a lot). The software I use to watermark also seems to screw colours up and adds even more contrast.
Rob