Northwest Dive Club

My Nikon D80 died on my last day in Bonaire, so I grabbed my Canon S80 point and shoot and housing and took it instead. I decided to just play around with the video feature on the camera to see what I could come up with. I hobbled together some footage to go along with Aquarium from Carnival of the ...

thanks, guys!

I don't often get to do wide angle shots around home, so here's some from last weeks trip. Taken with a Tokina 12-24mm lens, dome port. Dual strobes, with an Ikelite DS125 and Sea and Sea YS90 as a slave (yes, thanks to everyone's advice I was able to get the parts together to use the Sea and Sea st...

Thanks! For the macro shots I used a Nikon 60mm macro lens, its the sharpest of any glass that I have. The wide angle of the Hilma Hooker is a 12-24mm Tokina lens, set to the widest setting of 12mm (18mm equivalent on 35mm film). I also used an 18-55mm for medium size fish portraits. I don't recall ...

My buddy Andy and I spent last week in Bonaire, doing mostly shore diving mixed in with a few boat dives with Toucan Diving. The coral reef seems to be doing better than my last visit, with some of the more hardier coral species making a modest comeback into the shallow, hurricane affected areas. Wh...

They sure do! They can be anywhere from a beautiful gold to brown to this bright red or anywhere in between. I often wonder why nature makes juveniles such flashy colors? You would think it best that the young be well camouflaged. So what do we know? Nice shot Dan. It really highlights the eyebrows...

I saw what I thought at first was a very bright red Irish Lord, but when I got closer I realized that it was a small cabezon Scorpaenichthys marmoratus. Juveniles show this bright red color. Cove 2 in West Seattle.

The Ikelight G10 housing has the option for a dome attachment for wide angle shooting that is far superiour to any of the wide angle attachments one typically sees (Inon and others). Its removable underwater so you can switch between a flat port and dome port without having to surface and disassembl...

Nice shots!

Perspective as you've described it is the process of changing the angle of view so as to simplify the subject of the picture. A cleaner background and a more interesting angle of view go a long way towards making a shot more interesting, memorable and compelling.

Nice job!

I'm hoping to find a good book on the good the bad and the ugly of taking pics in the PNW waters :book: I haven't bought any photography equipment yet, because I have NO idea about gear or techniques, and figured if there is one (book) out there someone on this forum will know about it!! Thanks The...

AMEN on the Canon housings! When I bought my G9, I didn't want to risk playing the flood game anymore - so got an Ikelite housing for it. But do note, those Canon housings only seem to flood after a LOT of use - maybe like a year's worth or so. So when you're just starting out, they're fine. Just d...

Blue color casts in UW photos are caused by the amount of water that surface light has to travel through. Red light has lower energy so its filtered out first, followed by the yellows, then greens and finally blues. The only color that is present at depth is blue, but beyond a certain depth all ligh...

OK What are you doing diving my site without me. LOL :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: Seriously, Glad you made it up. Not the best of tides though in addition to the wind. It's always a good site for nudies.There are always tons of the verrucosas you just have to look close. If you didn't see at least 10...

Andy and I braved the winds at Port Townsend today and went on a nudi hunt. Millions of Red gilled nudibranchs Flabellina verrucosa . Uniformly tiny, they were everywhere. http://hershman.smugmug.com/photos/491485617_LCRND-S.jpg Lots of Nanaimo nudibranchs a Acanthodoris nanaimonensis as well. (This...

I got one a couple weeks ago & it is a bit more complicated than my Casio. ](*,) If you accidentally bump it & it changes settings -it is very hard to go back to where you were ... Any advice is welcome..... All Canon Point and Shoots are great--- the 990 is a bit feature rich, too many meg...

Wow, I looked at those on a Nudi ID website I found but all of there pic's the Festiva had swirly lines across the back so i assumed that was a defining characteristic. Otherwise I thought it looked like a Festiva. Another 1st for me. Diving is sooooooo awesome! Thanks, MJ Tritonia festiva is also ...

Great pics! I'm going there at the end of the month--- how was the viz? I heard that the island was brushed by a hurricane this past fall and the viz suffered a bit. But your photos look fantastic! :hello2:

Stubbies are the best! Piglets look like an overstuffed sausage with dreadlocks. On behalf of piglets everywhere I must protest! they look more like Miss Piggy. Why is 'cuteness' defined by media-driven cartoon characters? (or in this case, Muppets?) Stand up for your local cephalopod! :smt038

Leslie wrote:I gotta disagree - the piglet squid gets my vote http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/piglet ... -cute.html

nah... stubbies are cuter!

I always enjoy seeing stubby squid Rossia pacifica at Cove 2 in the winter.





They win the contest hands down for cutest cephalopod!

As an alternative its worth mentioning that the Nikon P6000 has the same level of performance as the G10, and ikelight makes an excellent housing for it. The best 'prosumer' point and shoot on the market today however is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. With an f2.0 leica lens and a 24-60mm zoom it woul...

nwscubamom wrote:I <3 this crab.

That's all I have to say.

[OK, so maybe not - great find, Dan!! These aren't very common and it's a real treat to spot one!]

- Janna

Thanks guys! Once in awhile you see something that you haven't noticed before and you hit the old Andy Lamb book.

I was out at Ft Casey Saturday and did a couple of dives, on the second one we found this Heart Crab Phyllolithodes papillosus underneath the pilings east of the jetty. Not rare, but still a bit suprising to find, it has a heart shape on its carapace. This one was about 8 inches across http://farm4....

To use photoshop or elements for RAW i believe you will need a plugin...i can edit RAW with Elements but not with my photoshop CS3. I would recommend either photoshop or elements for post-processing, these have more powerful editing tools then picasa. You should go to http://www.Adobe.com to downlo...

what kind of strobe do you have? what strobe do i need to get since im using the Canon underwater case? i think that will be my next item to purchase. are you staying at Buddy Dive? great deals there right now, im jealous! have fun. The Canon case doesn't have a strobe-synch cord attachment to conn...