Norwegian Nudies

[Norseman]

<font color='#0000FF'>Right.

New divesite, first trip with my wannabe-diveboat. Me and Hans, since he's on &quot;sick&quot;-leave from work. &nbsp;
Dive started off rather boring but on the ascent I came across quite a few nudies. So I shot them. Here are some of the pics I took. Towards the end there I've included some Hydroid since I'm quite pleased with the details.

Canon S50, built-in flash. Last pic no light at all. Tweaked a bit in Photoshop to bring out details and reduce exposure of background.





Waft, waft. I like slight currents since silt and such gets carried away rather quickly. Leaves more room for errors.



Dunno the latin name for this.



Comments are welcome,

Kyrre

[Pierre Farrugia]

<font color='#0000FF'>Hello,

Your pics are great, what csmera, housing, strobe are you using?

Regards

Piere

[Norseman]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Pierre Farrugia @ May 04 2004,17:12)]Your pics are great, what csmera, housing, strobe are you using?

<font color='#0000FF'>Thanks Pierre.

I use a Canon S50 (just upgraded from an S40 due to thieving Italians ) in a DC300 housing. I don't have a strobe or anything. The flash is the internal one.

The last picture was taken &quot;free-hand&quot; without any extra light. Once on the computer I gave it an &quot;auto-level&quot; and some &quot;Unsharp mask&quot;.

The Nudies were played around with a bit in PS. Nowadays I particularly like using the Shadow/highlight option in PS8.

Kyrre

[Pierre Farrugia]

<font color='#0000FF'>Thanks,

Makes your pics even more great, knowing that you are not using pfoessional eauipment and getting these results!

Regards

Pierre

[Jules]

Kyrre
Up to your usual standard (Brilliant!), love the sea slug.... Dr stevil will be drooling..
jules

[Norseman]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Pierre Farrugia @ May 04 2004,17:25)]Thanks,

Makes your pics even more great, knowing that you are not using pfoessional eauipment and getting these results!

Regards

Pierre

<font color='#0000FF'>Now that's a compliment! Thanks!

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] ]Up to your usual standard (Brilliant!), love the sea slug.... Dr stevil will be drooling..
jules

Thanx Jules. Hoodaføkk is Dr Stevil?



Kyrre

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Norseman @ May 04 2004,17:19)]Thanx Jules. Hoodaføkk is Dr Stevil?

SteveW

[John Gulliver]

I think the hydroid is Tubularia larynx.
Lovely images!

[Norseman]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (John Gulliver @ May 04 2004,19:16)]I think the hydroid is Tubularia larynx.
Lovely images!

<font color='#0000FF'>Cheers mate. Tubularia larynx. Duly noted.

Cya

K

[Jules]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Adrian Kelland @ May 04 2004,17:59)]

SteveW

Dr Stevil is Steve W, well known lover of sea slugs, he posts links to sites such as www.seasluglovers.com and also has some hardcore magazines such as seaslug playmates monthly. He is a 'serious' 'marine biologist...'

He keeps promising to be my slug spotter but so far has failed to show me any. Perhap i should try diving with him???