spiderment Dive log, Photography fisheye, kelp forest, leatherjacket, snapper, test, trigger fish, undersea, underwater, wide angle, zoom
I took my new Tokina fish eye lens for a test dive. It was quite murky and the swell was strong. Yet I am quite pleased with the results. The lens allows to get closer to the subjects than a normal rectilinear lens … which is so important underwater. Because of my dome setting I […]
spiderment Dive log, Underwater ambient light, dive, Goat Island, kelp forest, Leigh, no flash, ocean, pacific, relaxed, shallow, snapper, undersea, underwater
As the ocean is getting cooler people are disappearing from the water. That means it’s quieter underwater, fish are more relaxed and inquisitive. Last time I played with ambient light a bit … and will continue. It makes a lot of sense for wide angle images in shallow water. The pictures below show the typical […]
spiderment Dive log alga, algae, boulder, clear water, diving, encrusting, good visibility, Hauraki Gulf, invertebrate, kelp, Leigh, Matheson Bay, reef, rocky, scuba, sea squirt, snapper, sponge, spotted, spotty, tunicate, undersea, underwater, weed, weeds, wrasse
Surprisingly clear water in Matheson Bay … not just last Friday, but through the whole week. V zátoke Matheson bola prekvapivo čistá voda … nielen minulý piatok, ale počas celého týždňa.
spiderment Dive log dive, diving, goatfish, harbor, jack mackerel, mackerel, murky, scuba, Sicko, Ti Point, undersea, underwater, Whangateau
I took our friends, Slavka and Janko Sicko, for a short trip to the Leigh area. While they were enjoying the coast and admiring natural sculptures of the Ti Point area, I went for a short dive. Even though the water was quite murky it was an enjoyable dive. As they say at home, “Sicko […]
spiderment Dive log, Underwater australasian, banded morwong, blue sea, dive, diving, Ecklonia, Indian summer, kelp forest, Leigh, New Zealand, Pacific ocean, radiata, red moki, reef, rocky reef, sea weed, seaweed, snapper, southern, tamure, temperate, undersea, underwater
We are enjoying a beautiful Indian summer this year … both above and below water surface. Tento rok si užívame krásne babie leto … nad aj pod vodnou hladinou.
spiderment Video Algies Bay, baby, fish, fishing, hammer, hammerhead, shallow, shark
We were fishing from our mooring in Algies Bay last Saturday and Ivana caught this cute baby hammerhead shark. We released it so see another day. Minulú sobotu sme chytali ryby na našom kotvišti v zátoke Algies a Ivana ulovila toto krásne bábätko kladivohlavého žraloka. Pustili sme ho, nech si ešte požije.