Tropical seas

[noah]

spent a bit of time in Papua New Guinea last year and borrowed a nikkonos V for a dive. it was pretty weird to use, set up as fixed at 1/60 and f22 with a 50mm lens and 1:3 macro ring and a dedicated ttl flash to the top right or left which decided the exposure for me. i shot velvia 100f on it and the slides look incredible, all nice and sharp and none blown out under a magnifier on a light-box but the scans are crap in comparison. still they show a little of what it may be like, just imagine the colours as only velvia can produce.

crenoid (sp?) these have legs and can walk!
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0003editsmspotless.jpg


look closely and you'll find an anemone shrimp
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0031sm.jpg


lion fish, nice and poisonous :)
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0010sm.jpg

baby one, hence the long spines
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0015sm.jpg


moray eel
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0020sm.jpg


nemo, hiding
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0025sm.jpg


a whip gobi, these are little fish that live on coral whips, very very small.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/DIA_0030sm.jpg

thanks for looking

[cwinhall]

great shots. I would love to do underwater photography!

[h.r.ford]

Ohh I was expecting something completely differnt when I opened this. That first one is just WOW! Hope you've got more like this.

[TheRedUn]

Triffic shots :thumbs:

[photostar_1]

Fabulous!!

[Steep]

Love the eel, but the others are great too :)

[dougdarter]

Absolutely wonderful set of shots!!

It shows what can be achieved with a FF film camera, and the reason that they are still highly valued!

Congratulations.:clap:

[Hacker]

Excellent, I love the shot of the Clownfish playing peek-a-boo!

[noah]

thanks guys, was great fun to have a go. luckily my bro has borrowed an 11mpix scanner so i shall try again and see if i can get some more detail from them.

[madmitch]

No2 is stunning:clap:

[minimeeze]

Wow! These are great - love the eel shot.

[noah]

i scanned them in myself on a borrowed minolta scanner this arvo and got something far more faithful to the originals:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/noah10404sm.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/Image1006sm.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/noah605editsm.jpg

[Cobra]

All terrific Noah! I espicially like the feather star (Crinoidea) though.
I have done a bit of diving in the past and although superb, don't you find the real thing far better than any pictures? ( thats not a criticism BTW)

[noah]

absolutely, try as i might i could never do justice to that wonderful range of colours and light that appears for the few moments i see it underwater. but they, we can but try :D

[minimeeze]

The colours on the second set that you have re-posted are amazing!

[Hoodi]

Awesome stuff Noah - the second set are miles better, make the first lot look horribly posterised.
Have you spoken to express imaging? I was chatting to my mate about this, he didn't really know what to say ~ but they're nice enough guys & if you explain your dissapointment I'm sure they'll at least partially reimburse you...

[noah]

quite a difference eh!

i haven't been down yet but i'll go see them on monday. i've always found them to be good in the past, just not so sure of their scanner.

[Mohain]

Lovely stuff. Especially the second set, as has been said :)