Down Under Out Yonder Intro Workshop - Assignment II
August 11th, 2003 by James
A month after the DUOY Advanced Workshop, I was called back to give a lecture for the introductory workshop, and got a chance to go diving with the NOAA group again My assignment for the trip was to put together a CD-ROM of photos from the Banks as well as topsides and underwater pohotography of the educators and staff.
This trip the conditions were beautiful. There wasn’t enough wind and current to tie up to an offshore platform for our 3rd dive so we headed over to East Bank. Lucky for us too, as two Mantas showed up, a 6 footer and an 8 to 10 footer!
Click here to see the macro and wideangle galleries from this trip: DUOY Introductory Workshop Gallery
Now that I had found the right port and extension ring combination for the 12-24DX lens, I was ready to really give it a workout. I only shot macro on this trip on the night and morning dives when conditions were too poor to shoot wide. Here are a few of the better wideangle shots:
Sarah and Brain Coral, Queen Angel, Sarah and Scorpionfish, Barrel Sponge, and Tube Sponge at HIA389
The night dive at Stetson bank was especially good for macro on this trip. I used the 60mm and AF for all of the shots there. I was able to get some good shots with the 70-180 at East Bank before the manual focus knob came loose.
A whitespotted filefish, blue angel, redlipped blenny, smooth trunkfish, and a pair of morays (goldentail and spotted)
Posted in General |
August 24th, 2004 at 2:01 pm
Nice website James. Abbi gave me the address when I was talking with him this pm. (I was the project controls mgr at INTEC until about a year ago.) I have a digital Rebel and do a lot of topsides photography. I don’t have a nicely organized webiste, but you can see some of my work at http://www.kingwoodcable.com/cpl. Take care, and nice work.