Following on from last weeks post where I took you down memory lane with my 10 years taking underwater photos, I have come up with my favourite 10 images that I’ve taken underwater (whittled down from my fav 85 here). I don’t think they are necessarily my best but I like them the most. So with out further ado – here they are in no particular order…
Please let me know what you think in the comments below…
This week’s Photo Friday entry: ’The Lucky Shot’
For this weeks photofriday theme I’d like to talk about photographing clownfish (nemo)! The shot above was most definitely ‘the lucky shot’ because it won me a trip :) However in general photographing clownfish is a matter of patience. You find a nice anemone with pretty clownfish and every time the fish looks look in the viewfinder you click the button. They swim around and around and in and out so its mostly patience & luck when you get a good one.
If you want to see more of my underwater photos from various places then check out the galleries in my Reef Beasties Gallery.
See all the other photo Friday entries (and submit your own) for ‘The Lucky Shot’ here.
Its been a week or so since I posted (sorry folks) here is a round up of recent iphone offerings, taken & post processed on the phone but resized as an export from LR since I still cant find an app to resize to my liking – recommendations in the comments welcome ;)
As always, click for bigger versions.
for more recent images go here to my iphone4 gallery
ok, its official, I love my iphone4. Apple has been getting lots of bad press recently over the reception issues with the phone. I get that. I understand why people balk at paying all that cash to have a phone that doesnt keep signal in crappy signal areas if you hold it a certain way. I get it, I do. But I still love it! This phone is my first new phone in 6 years (my old nokia stll going strong) is great if you want to make calls or text. But I don’t. I want to use the internet to check my email, facebook, twitter etc. Most of all I love the take a photo, edit a photo in an app (to HDR, Panorama stitch, filter or all manners of things) and then upload directly to the internet. I hadnt really tried out the camera until this weekend but now I am seriously impressed…
This is taken hand held in my nans breeze back garden (click for larger):
This is it at 100% (click to see larger)::
I have not touched up those photos (only to resize the 1st one and crop the second one).
Just remember what Chase says, the best camera is the one you have with you. What photos does your phone take?
these have been slightly edited in LR (it slightly over exposed the clouds for my taste):
I need to get some more photo apps & learn how to resize for the net from my phone but until then I’ll be resizing in LR & putting them in this gallery:
…from Grand Cayman, Alex Mustard’s underwater photoworkshop.
Had a great time with Rays & Sharks & Earthquakes. Will tell you all about it with a review once I have more photos to display.
(c) Michael Toye
Well again I’ve really enjoyed the agonizing process of choosing my top photos from the year. I’ve picked 100 photos and put them in a gallery here:
http://www.pbase.com/suzy_walker/best2009
This year I found many photos to choose from that I liked so I must be getting better at this photography malarkey (I hope you agree). Again, we had a great year photo-opportunity-wise, we went to Raja Ampat (Indonesia) & the Red Sea (Egypt). We had some murder mayhem at the start of the year and We wandered around London experimenting with IR (failed) and HDR (better) techniques. The now closed Shunt Lounge at London Bridge provided some fun challenges too. And of course it wouldn’t be a photography year for me without playing with a bit of macro in the flat.
I tried to be good this year and only pick the best (and not just favourite – see my blog post here about choosing) but I think I failed and just chose what I liked most anyway ;)
So here are my top ten of 2009 (click them to see them larger):
#10 Angel in HDR. OK, we just moved out of London last week… I’ll admit it, I’m going to miss Angel. Probably not one of my best photos of the year but I wanted to mark the passing into our new life in 2010…
#9 Snapper explosion from Red Sea. See the full trip gallery here.
#8 James’ Mysterious device. See the full series here.
#7 Little fishy. Also from the red sea. These little guys are very quick but very graceful. I wanted to get a photo that showed that and I think this does.
#6 Mike & Suzy fish. Tiny glass fish blown into a glass fish bowl. Amazing item from Italy and I found it difficult to light.
#5 Fish tails. I loved the pattern they made. I’d have liked to get more in but the school was not really big enough.
#4 Leaf reflection. The Raja Ampat Mangroves were by far & away my fav experience this year! See the full gallery here
#3 Teeny Tiny bobtail squid. See Raja Ampat (not Mangroves) Underwater gallery here. This was a challenge & a 1/2! Night dive. Heavy lens & torch I could hardly hold up. Bobtail squid I could hardly see he was so small! Those white rocks in the photo are grains of sand & shell.
#2 Nemo. You know I cannot resist! I like the yellow he was on …
#1 360 degrees of paradise! Bit of a dodgy handheld panorama but it came out well …. click it to see a much larger size:
EDIT: a few people contacted me wanting to know why this wasnt on the list… so I thought I’d add it here as an honorable mention…
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These are some of the new photos I’ve uploaded:
