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Hi All,
I know there are a few of us on here who take underwater shots. We just got back from the Maldives a few days ago and I thought I’d post a few here as I have in the past. This year we went back to Kandolhu Island in North Ari Atoll. We went there last year and couldn’t find a single fault with it so decided to go back. The diving is typical Maldives diving- 30C water, a mixture of Thilas (underwater pinnacles), Walls, and channels, a range of visibilities depending on the tide conditions and location (from 10m vis to 50+m vis), and a wide range of things to take pictures of from the biggest to the smallest.
Going into this trip, my goals were to get some good shark pictures, some fresh manta pictures (haven’t had a good one since 2018), get any kind of shot of a Napoleon (didn’t see one last year closer than 30m away), and to get some ‘portfolio building’ shots that I hadn’t taken before and were cool shots. By the third day of diving I had achieved all the above so the remaining 8 dive days were gravy on top. This was simply the best full trip of diving we’ve ever done. The weather was 32C and sunny the whole time. The seas were flat like glass almost every day. The fish cooperated. And, we had great dive guides who had a pretty good idea of what was going to be where on a given day. We didn’t have a bad dive in the bunch (we did 21 dives including 1 house reef check dive and 2 night dives). We also did a fair amount of snorkelling around the island as there are at least a dozen resident turtles, a couple nurse sharks, and the various passing fish. This year we had a couple spotted eagle rays, a small pod of dolphins, and plenty of sharks all around the house reef.
I’ve linked a handful of pictures below which are just my quick edits. I shoot an Olympus Em5 mk1 in RAW + JPEG. Yeah, I know the RAW has an embedded JPEG. Don’t care. The Olympus JPEGs are great straight out of the camera and need no tweaking if I get my lighting right. For quick uploads and backup, the JPEGs get copied straight to my ipad each day and shared to the world. I shoot a couple days on a card and rotate (I carry 6 cards for a 2-week trip). I use PS Express on the Ipad to adjust a slider or two to my liking, but that’s all that these have really had. In a few cases I’ve done minor blemish spot removal for a couple obnoxious bits of backscatter.
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks,
Rick
I know there are a few of us on here who take underwater shots. We just got back from the Maldives a few days ago and I thought I’d post a few here as I have in the past. This year we went back to Kandolhu Island in North Ari Atoll. We went there last year and couldn’t find a single fault with it so decided to go back. The diving is typical Maldives diving- 30C water, a mixture of Thilas (underwater pinnacles), Walls, and channels, a range of visibilities depending on the tide conditions and location (from 10m vis to 50+m vis), and a wide range of things to take pictures of from the biggest to the smallest.
Going into this trip, my goals were to get some good shark pictures, some fresh manta pictures (haven’t had a good one since 2018), get any kind of shot of a Napoleon (didn’t see one last year closer than 30m away), and to get some ‘portfolio building’ shots that I hadn’t taken before and were cool shots. By the third day of diving I had achieved all the above so the remaining 8 dive days were gravy on top. This was simply the best full trip of diving we’ve ever done. The weather was 32C and sunny the whole time. The seas were flat like glass almost every day. The fish cooperated. And, we had great dive guides who had a pretty good idea of what was going to be where on a given day. We didn’t have a bad dive in the bunch (we did 21 dives including 1 house reef check dive and 2 night dives). We also did a fair amount of snorkelling around the island as there are at least a dozen resident turtles, a couple nurse sharks, and the various passing fish. This year we had a couple spotted eagle rays, a small pod of dolphins, and plenty of sharks all around the house reef.
I’ve linked a handful of pictures below which are just my quick edits. I shoot an Olympus Em5 mk1 in RAW + JPEG. Yeah, I know the RAW has an embedded JPEG. Don’t care. The Olympus JPEGs are great straight out of the camera and need no tweaking if I get my lighting right. For quick uploads and backup, the JPEGs get copied straight to my ipad each day and shared to the world. I shoot a couple days on a card and rotate (I carry 6 cards for a 2-week trip). I use PS Express on the Ipad to adjust a slider or two to my liking, but that’s all that these have really had. In a few cases I’ve done minor blemish spot removal for a couple obnoxious bits of backscatter.
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks,
Rick
