Macro Slideshow

Julian Cohen's Slideshow from Lembeh

A fantastic slide show from Julian Cohen

These were taken over a week (?) during which the participants gave up diving during daylight-diving solely at night. They were based at the "home" of macro -Lembeh These are some of the fantastic images that resulted!

Zen dome macro shots

After reading a post on wetpixel by Stephen Frink (see the post here) on using a small dome with macro lenses, I thought I'd give the Zen dome a try.

I used with a Nikon 60mm f2.8, on a very dark and gloomy day. For reference purposes, the water temp was 4 degrees, and I lost all sensation in my hands for most of the dive (despite dry gloves!) The port gives really nice results-sharp and it corrects the parallax that you get with conventional flat ports. I will definitely try it some more

Moody black and white macro shots

I was lucky enough to be diving at Capernwray last Sunday. Congratualtions to Darryl Leaning on completing five PADI Instructor Specialities. It was a very busy day, that ensured limited visibility, together with rain and cloud making underwater conditions very gloomy.

I used the conditions to experiment with black background macro shots-by keeping my aperture small, and using only the light from my strobe to illuminate the subject. I then converted these into mono, using Lightroom.

I quite like the result-the perch loook like boxers to me! Kind of bruised but still with attitude!

Diving yesterday

Antony Gatrell completed his Instructor Speciality courses with me at Capernwray yesterday. We were joined by Dave Morgan, and between us hence had three cameras on the go. It was a pretty bright day, so ideal for wide angle, so I chose to use a 105mm VR macro lens! Still quite like the results-I wasn't sure about the leaf picture, but I do quite like it!