Sipadan Trip

[TwilightZone]

Hi,

Just came back from Sipadan last week. Unfortunatey the visibility was not that good due to a typhoon on Tues night that stirred up the water....The bungalows were shaking under the strong wind and rainwater sipped in and wet the bed...

Here are some shots I have taken during the trip. Please give me your comments and tell me how you would have taken to make them better. Thanks!

Giant Frog Fish (almost 30cm long)


Bearded Scorpionfish


Nudibranch


Nudibranch showing it's 'middle finger'. ;-p


The rest of the photos can be found here:
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/554384729tbNVjt
The usual, C&C are most welcome please. :-)

[howeikwok]

hey got pikachu nudi, nice...

[diediealsomustdive]

Excellent photos! I especially like the way you lit the nudi, you got someone to hold the strobe for you?

You've done much better than me (judging from the photos) when I last visited Sipadan in 2003.

IMHO the giant frogfish photo is overexposed. Try using the curve function and drag the midpoint down a few points.

[TwilightZone]

Originally Posted by diediealsomustdive Excellent photos! I especially like the way you lit the nudi, you got someone to hold the strobe for you? You've done much better than me (judging from the photos) when I last visited Sipadan in 2003. IMHO the giant frogfish photo is overexposed. Try using the curve function and drag the midpoint down a few points.

Ha ha! i wished i had an underwater porter... got to keep adjusting the strobe to keep the subject at the centre of light source. Using Inon D2000 thanks to Brother Photosmart. It has a focus light so I know where to aim my strobe.

Yeah, the frogfish was overexposed alright. trying all sorts of way to fix it but i guess choices are limited on an overexposed shot. Will try moving the curve and hopefully it will be better. Thanks!

[antacid]

you can always ask me along to help you carry strobe..heh heh looks like you had a great trip! too bad i couldn't make it..student no money

thanks for sharing!

((=

[Photosmart]

Originally Posted by TwilightZone Ha ha! i wished i had an underwater porter... got to keep adjusting the strobe to keep the subject at the centre of light source. Using Inon D2000 thanks to Brother Photosmart. It has a focus light so I know where to aim my strobe. Yeah, the frogfish was overexposed alright. trying all sorts of way to fix it but i guess choices are limited on an overexposed shot. Will try moving the curve and hopefully it will be better. Thanks!

Dont mention.....You have improved alot since the last strobe system you got. Nice Shots....

You r shooting on S-TTL or manual ?

[TwilightZone]

Originally Posted by antacid you can always ask me along to help you carry strobe..heh heh looks like you had a great trip! too bad i couldn't make it..student no money thanks for sharing! ((=

Hey, the trip was great. wished I could have done more dives though..

I thought students nowadays a lot of money one?

[TwilightZone]

Originally Posted by Photosmart Dont mention.....You have improved alot since the last strobe system you got. Nice Shots.... You r shooting on S-TTL or manual ?

Thanks for the kind words. Still finding more about the camera-strobe setting. Just began to move from A-priority to manual as some shots gone over/under exposed. Guess you can only trust the camera metering only this much.. A lot more to learn.

Still using S-TTL lah. not advanced enough to try manual settings yet. Even S-TTL sometimes got problems liao. If I use manual now, there will probably be no photos to show at all...