who are divers on CS?

[ahsiang]

Bascially, underwater photography is classified as Nature Photography, unless you are doing human model shots underwater - then it's Portraiture.

From what I see, most of us are doing Nature - Close Up on Marine's lifes. Maybe we should go back to our basic. How to take Nature - Close Up.

Anyone interested?

Date: 16/11/03 (Sunday)
Time: 1000 hrs
Venue: Botanic Garden
Meeting Point: Main reception corner

What you need?
You digi-cam. Your digi-cam manual. Close up filters (4X). Tripod. Of course yourself.

I'm not teaching, just sharing around with our experiences. Basically what you take on LAND is the same underwater. Let's learn how to capture the picture in our minds, compose it then snap it.

 

[monty_shark]

Date: 16/11/03 (Sunday)
Time: 1000 hrs
Venue: Botanic Garden
Meeting Point: Main reception corner

What you need?
You digi-cam. Your digi-cam manual. Close up filters (4X). Tripod. Of course yourself.

dont have tripod and close up filter can join or not?

by the way, why must it be 4X, cant it be 2X or something like that? any recommendation? price?

i thot dont need tripod to take nature? cos by the time u hook up your tripod, the animal or insect ciao liao?

:embrass:

 

[ahsiang]

monty_shark

why 4X close up and not 2X close up filter? good questions. If you are using 35mm SLR marco len - you normally will get 1:1, which in a 36mm x 24mm frame (film frame size), 1mm of the subject is equal to 1mm in the film. So for shooting insects, less than a ten cents coin size, you need a 4X close up filter to magnify the suject to fill into the film frame. Otherwise it'll look very small in the picture. You got to learn how to take photos without cropping (after print out).

well, if you think you have a very stable & film hands, then you don't need a tripod. However, if you have one, bring along as to get a comfirm sharp pictures. For compact digi cam, when you viewing the LCD with hands, you tends to 'drift' with your cam. When using the view finder, it's not that bad.

Hoya 4X close-up filter costs about 20. What camera you using?

You welcome to join. Share your experience with people going.

 

[ahsiang]

Venue: Botanic Garden
Date: 16/11/03 (Sunday)
Time: 1000 hrs
Meeting Point: Main reception corner

1. ahsiang
2. monty_shark?

What you need?
You digi-cam. Your digi-cam manual. Close up filters (4X). Tripod. Of course yourself. Maybe, you can bring along some of your U/W photos for sharing.

 

[beivied]

ahsiang and who ah, blurblock ha, please, i am B E I V I E D - beivied. not belived, not behved k .... :sweat:

 

[lovells19]

er.. if i post then i cannot wake up how?

i only got 32mb on my c5050 leh.. pathatic leh only 26 picture :cry:

 

[ahsiang]

beivied,

sorry lah. believed me, i will not spell wrong again. thanks for reminding me. sorry hor.

lovells19,

like that ah? 10am is the lastest (only about 2 hrs to shoot). normally I go very early (7-8am) so that got a longer time to snap before the sun rised to the middle of the sky.

 

[waisj]

ahsiang and who ah, blurblock ha, please, i am B E I V I E D - beivied. not belived, not behved k .... :sweat:

yoyo tow kae neo..... how is the trip?? good??

pictures.. post leh

 

[frisky]

lovells19: wah, 10am still cannot wake up? Ask you meet 8am how? :bsmilie:

beivied: Any new gossips or other stories? :blah:

 

[sehsuan]

thought someone said she was "pok-gai"?... :sweat:

 

[beivied]

sehsuan: i struggled to come up with the money one. some more it was a very last min decision to go.

frisky: what gossip you want huh? hahaha... the only seemingly dangerous thing was during my last dive at turtle house, my buddy signalled that some distance away there was a titan. i acknowledged and while looking at it, it suddenly changed its course and swam directly towards me when it was actually swimming away. swam quite fast some more, shocked me. i finned like hell man, to get out of its way. i managed to get out of its direction, it turned towards me and then went off. never once did my eyes leave that titan man. half my length. and for the first time of my six miserable trips, i kena revert block. first time ok not too painful. second time half my head was in pain. hai hao later dont have le.

waisj: went to pulau lang for day dive and night dive. also went to rayner's rock, turtle house, captain's rock and pulau pinang. must say that vis wasnt as good as i went in march. but see more than then la. the usual for you guys, but first time for me would be cuttlefish, lionfish (imagine that, dive five trips never see) green moray eel, some nudibranchs and flatworms. also bumpheads bumpheads, have a video clip of four bumpheads, very nice, and the largest bumphead shitted during my video clip some more, haha. saw barracudas, but not very big la. night dive saw one huge one, solo. saw turtle, coral grouper, shrimps, lobsters, crabs (on surface, haha) batfish usual, blue spotted ray, tube anemone, lots of crown of thorns, blue starfish, lots of pin cushion star, saw a huge porcupine fish but no photo cos out of batt. what else... about there la. and hell a lot of christmas tree worms, take photos until i sian liao.

 

[beivied]

on second thoughts, the titan was only at most half a metre la. half my length is too much. :sweat:

 

[waisj]

waisj: went to pulau lang for day dive and night dive. also went to rayner's rock, turtle house, captain's rock and pulau pinang. must say that vis wasnt as good as i went in march. but see more than then la. the usual for you guys, but first time for me would be cuttlefish, lionfish (imagine that, dive five trips never see) green moray eel, some nudibranchs and flatworms. also bumpheads bumpheads, have a video clip of four bumpheads, very nice, and the largest bumphead shitted during my video clip some more, haha. saw barracudas, but not very big la. night dive saw one huge one, solo. saw turtle, coral grouper, shrimps, lobsters, crabs (on surface, haha) batfish usual, blue spotted ray, tube anemone, lots of crown of thorns, blue starfish, lots of pin cushion star, saw a huge porcupine fish but no photo cos out of batt. what else... about there la. and hell a lot of christmas tree worms, take photos until i sian liao.

my god.. tow kae neo.... for a new diver.. you sure know you stuff..!!!
priase.. praise.... half of my dive kakis dont even know what a coral cod looks like..! hee hee

 

[lanxx]

ahsiang and who ah, blurblock ha, please, i am B E I V I E D - beivied. not belived, not behved k .... :sweat:

LOL, I also have problem pronuncing your name ;p

 

[beivied]

my god.. tow kae neo.... for a new diver.. you sure know you stuff..!!!
priase.. praise.... half of my dive kakis dont even know what a coral cod looks like..! hee hee

i know it becos i saw it in a book ma. it was written as coral grouper. now that you cal it coral cod, i searched for it in the website and they look the same, so should be the same la, haha. i try to find out the names lo, and i am trying to get near to fishes to take pictures. Aways take pictures of things that cannot move or dont move much.

one new thing i learn this time also is sailor's eyeball, a type of coral. it is very shiny and hard. the first time i saw one i thought it was a marble and i actually touched it k and i thought confirmed it is a marble. i usually dont touch things one. scarly i keep seeing them and got various sizes, then i realised it wasnt marble... flipped through the book and saw it. quite comprehensive, cos it covers mostly what you can see in the indo pacific. thinking of buyin it also .. any good species book to recommend?

quite happy that for this trip i seem to consume less air. about 30 to 50 bar less consumed than the other divers. might be the regulator. quite smooth breathing. still got size problem la, around the waist is ok, i got thick waist, but bcd keep slipping off my shoulder, shucks.

 

[lovells19]

lovells19: wah, 10am still cannot wake up? Ask you meet 8am how?

haha sunday usually i like to 'NUa' in bed one keke.. maybe i should go and test out my new toy kekeke

on second thoughts, the titan was only at most half a metre la. half my length is too much. :sweat:

under water things all look bigger!

 

[beivied]

LOL, I also have problem pronuncing your name ;p

it is be i vied, actually it is two english words, be ivied, meaning to be covered with ivy, the creeping plant. so, be ivyed.... liao gai bo?

 

[frisky]

my god.. tow kae neo.... for a new diver.. you sure know you stuff..!!!
priase.. praise.... half of my dive kakis dont even know what a coral cod looks like..! hee hee

Yea loh. Hands up, I also donno..........

 

[beivied]

haha sunday usually i like to 'NUa' in bed one keke.. maybe i should go and test out my new toy kekeke




under water things all look bigger!

haha, it came near enough for me to tell its size la. a bit scared la, so over exaggerated. ;p maybe even less than 50 cm, but the size definitely enough to fit a big dinner plate, hahaha..

 

[beivied]

Yea loh. Hands up, I also donno..........

i also didnt know ma look into books and website lo. i like to know what i am looking at, so i try to find out .... the easier way is to take a pic of it and show to experienced divers, hehe. i always mistook this goby or blenny for lizard fish, until the instructor for AOWD this trip corrected me when he saw my photo. then i managed to find the correct lizard fish on the next dive, took a photo and affirmed it, haha.