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Scuba Forum / Scuba Locations / January 2006cozzumel trip
i finally got my pictures up on my web site from my trip to cozumel a couple of weeks ago. here is the address: http://www.public.asu.edu/~elliotg/ enjoy elliott Great pictures. You say you use a "All pictures were taken with a Sony P7 digital camera using a color correcting filter". Can you tell me more about the color correcting filter? Does it attach to the camera or to the housing? What make housing do you have? Chris > i finally got my pictures up on my web site from my trip to cozumel a > couple of weeks ago. here is the address: > http://www.public.asu.edu/~elliotg/ > enjoy > elliott everything is sony- camera, housing (but i got it from B & H photo) and the lens, it is a pink one that mounts on the housing. the pictures definitely come out with better color then without it, but i still have to run everything- color and brightness correction- on photoshop elements. elliott Chris >Great pictures. You say you use a "All pictures were taken with a Sony >P7 digital camera using a color correcting filter". Can you tell me more [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > chris- in answer to your off line question (i can't respond to you directly, it bounces back) i could not find the color number of my filter. it is similar to the rose colored lens in some dive masks. the color of your pics is similar to mine before i photoshop them. that is the key, even with a filter, they still have to be photoshoped. the deeper the dive, the more red you loose and the more correction is required. i love photoshop, i think it is gods gift to underwater photography. i would suggest you keep your primary pics and make copies of them to experiment on in photoshop. elliott >Great pictures. You say you use a "All pictures were taken with a Sony >P7 digital camera using a color correcting filter". Can you tell me more [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks Elliot. I have Adobe Photoshop Album, Printshop PhotoPro and something that came with the camera (Canon PhotoStuido). I'll give them a try. I stopped in a high end camera shop and the salesman told me they don't make a filter that will work with my housing. But he did tell me to try customizing the "white balance". Basically (I think) it adjusts the predominate color to white. He had a red piece of paper that he used to set the white balance then took a picture of the paper...it was almost white. Not sure how that is going to work with the lack of red (at depth) that results in a blue tint...... > chris- in answer to your off line question (i can't respond to you > directly, it bounces back) i could not find the color number of my [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> > enjoy >> > elliott Chris Bergquist <chrisberg*NOSPAM*@pacbell.net> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :I stopped in a high end camera shop and the salesman told me they don't :make a filter that will work with my housing. If it's a Sony housing, ask Sony. If they don't make it anymore, at least get the model number and try to find one on eBay. Dan Bracuk If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. Not a Sony UW housing......Canon WP-DC30. Canon makes filters for the camera but I have not been able to find one that attaches to the UW housing. Chris > Chris Bergquist <chrisberg*NOSPAM*@pacbell.net> pounded away at his > keyboard resulting in: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- > Not a Sony UW housing......Canon WP-DC30. Canon makes filters for the camera but I have > not been able to find one that attaches to the UW housing. > > Chris My memory has faded on the filter in question...but I think it is a -cr39- or something very much like that. Jack > > Not a Sony UW housing......Canon WP-DC30. Canon makes filters for the > camera but I have [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > or something very much like that. > Jack Nah..Never mind cr39 is sunglasses. Jack i am sorry that i can't reply offline. my camera is set to auto for white balance, in fact, it is all auto. i can't change settings and breathe underwater at the same time. i use photoshop elements which is different from photoshop album. i really like elements, i think it is more important than the color filter. i just use the auto correct for color and brightness. i wish i knew more to be able to use the advance features. elliott >Great pictures. You say you use a "All pictures were taken with a Sony >P7 digital camera using a color correcting filter". Can you tell me more [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Hi, i just returned from a trip to Curacao and a friend of mine had a Canon Powershot A95 with an underwater housing...took FANTASTIC pics! i have the A75 but never thought to get an underwater housing for it. Both cameras have an underwater setting that adds red...again FANTASTIC shots that didn't need photoshop! gotta get my camera underwater! http://marybrooke.com/ shawn I have the A75 and have used the "sceen" setting for underwater....still get a lot of blue in all my photos. Hence the search for a red filter.... Is that the setting your friend used? Chris > Hi, i just returned from a trip to Curacao and a friend of mine had a > Canon Powershot A95 with an underwater housing...took FANTASTIC pics! i [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > shawn Elliott Goldstein <e.goldstein@asu.edu> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :http://www.public.asu.edu/~elliotg/ :enjoy I did. How did you get that toadfish out into the open? Dan Bracuk If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. >How did you get that toadfish out into the open? Last year when I was there my divemaster friend "tickled" a Splendid Toadfish, first on the top of his head (all that was showing) and then progressively along his body as he came out of the hole. She said he quivers when she strokes him. (The Toadfish might have been a "she".) I got several decent shots. I had no idea their fins were tipped with bright yellow until then. That divemaster is Cristina Roman and she can be found at http://www.divewithcristina.com In all the years I've dived with her I've never given her a shameless plug before... I'm on my way back in 4 more days!!!  SignatureRemove preceding and trailing X from username for replies (Sorry, but I'm SICK of spam...) > >How did you get that toadfish out into the open? By various ways of molestation. No respectable splendid toadfish would come out of its hole for any scuba diver or photog. > Last year when I was there my divemaster friend "tickled" a Splendid > Toadfish, first on the top of his head (all that was showing) and then > progressively along his body as he came out of the hole. She said he > quivers when she strokes him. (The Toadfish might have been a "she".) Other DMs would use more macho ways of persuasion: from poking the behind of the toadfish with a stick or rod to what I've seen a DM did with his 12-inch long dive knife, which I can't think of any Cozumel UW application other than for poking at critters in their natural habitat. > That divemaster is Cristina Roman and she can be found at > http://www.divewithcristina.com In all the years I've dived with her > I've never given her a shameless plug before... Don't know her since she is relatively new in the Cozumel dive scene. But her boat Nena looks like it may have been the renovated version of the Discover shop's Vikingo. When I dived with that shop in the late 1980s, it would take the boat about 2 hours to get from the Pro Dive Pier to the southern reefs such as Palancar Deep or Columbia. A two-tank dive in those days took an entire day, from about 8 am to 4 or 5 pm. How's the speed of the Nena boat? Has the engine/motor of the boat been renovated too? -- Bob. >Don't know her since she is relatively new in the Cozumel dive scene. She's been there for ages. Her website says 1987. But until recently she just freelanced, and rented other boats. >But her boat Nena looks like it may have been the renovated version >of the Discover shop's Vikingo. When I dived with that shop in the >late 1980s, it would take the boat about 2 hours to get from the Pro >Dive Pier to the southern reefs such as Palancar Deep or Columbia. >A two-tank dive in those days took an entire day, from about 8 am to >4 or 5 pm. The Nena was called the Nena before she bought it. In fact I dived on it a couple times in years prior to her buying it. It's an old sailboat with the mast removed. Has a fair sized keel, and probably draws a couple feet more water than most. They run out of Caleta and pick up at more southern piers (if any remain). Typically we leave about 8:45 and get back about 3:00. Two good long dives and a long surface interval in between. I used to dive on Papa Hog's six-pack boats, but they were murder on the back and the whole thing felt like a race. I like the slower pace and long surface intervals a lot more. >How's the speed of the Nena boat? Has the engine/motor of the boat >been renovated too? I've seen (and even been on) slower boats down there, that's for sure. It's probably close in typical cruising speed to the Careyitos boat. I think the engine was done shortly before she bought it. Seems to run fine. It made it through Wilma without any damage, which was a miracle. I saw a photo of boats stacked up on the opposite side of Caleta. 2 more days... SignatureRemove preceding and trailing X from username for replies (Sorry, but I'm SICK of spam...) that is embarrassing and i had hoped no one would ask. i dove the day after the harbor had shut down because of high winds and went out with just a divemaster and me . no one else wanted to go out in the afternoon (fantastic for someone with a camera) the dm found a toad fish and i took a couple of pics. before i knew what was happening, he uncoupled his inflater hose and eased the toadfish out of his hole-gently. i took a couple of pics and then he (the fish) scooted back in. i felt bad but i wouldn't pass up the opportunity. the toadfish seemed ok. elliott >Elliott Goldstein <e.goldstein@asu.edu> pounded away at his keyboard >resulting in: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- > > i finally got my pictures up on my web site from my trip to cozumel a > couple of weeks ago. here is the address: > http://www.public.asu.edu/~elliotg/ > enjoy > elliott Cool shot of the octopus!! i have never seen an octopus out like that in the day time. the best part was when a grouper came up and 'interacted' with him. finally the octopus chased the grouper away. i wish i had a video camera for that. elliott > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > i have never seen an octopus out like that in the day time. Neither have I. Actually, I don't think I've even seen one in the pose at night. >the best > part was when a grouper came up and 'interacted' with him. finally the > octopus chased the grouper away. i wish i had a video camera for that. > elliott :^) > >>i finally got my pictures up on my web site from my trip to cozumel a > >>couple of weeks ago. here is the address: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > >Cool shot of the octopus!! >> i have never seen an octopus out like that in the day time. > >Neither have I. Actually, I don't think I've even seen one in the pose at >night. When I was in Cozumel last winter, on my first dive, just after we dropped in, we came across a decent sized octopus out and about on the reef. It was out in the open, apparently hunting, changing shape and color as it went. Unfortunately it was my first dive with the new camera and I didn't realize the flash was disabled until later in the dive. So all of the shots were pretty much monochrome. Maybe he'll be waiting for me on Sunday! I'll have the flash on this time... SignatureRemove preceding and trailing X from username for replies (Sorry, but I'm SICK of spam...) > >Neither have I. Actually, I don't think I've even seen one in the pose at > >night. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > reef. It was out in the open, apparently hunting, changing shape and > color as it went. This activity was in the day? (snip) A couple of weeks back on a night dive in Roatan, I found a small octo. He performed all of the requisite tricks, a number of times. My buddy got pics of most of them. There was a young gal with us on her first night dive towards her AOW cert. She was quite excited about the whole scene, of course. Back at the shop, when I was telling the story of how I'd found that same little octo 4 different times, she advised us that she'd seen two different octopus. She told us that one had been brownish and one was fluorescent blue/green. None of us said anything to her, we just smiled gently and then winked at each other over her head. >> When I was in Cozumel last winter, on my first dive, just after we >> dropped in, we came across a decent sized octopus out and about on the >> reef. It was out in the open, apparently hunting, changing shape and >> color as it went. > >This activity was in the day? Yep. First dive of the day, mid-morning. Very unusual. SignatureRemove preceding and trailing X from username for replies (Sorry, but I'm SICK of spam...) all the pictures that i took were without any flash. i have never used one. i run all the pics through auto correct on photoshop for color and brightness. if you still have the originals, try it. elliott > > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Elliott Goldstein <e.goldstein@asu.edu> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :all the pictures that i took were without any flash. i have never used :one. i run all the pics through auto correct on photoshop for color and :brightness. :if you still have the originals, try it. :elliott Not even the camera's built in flash? Dan Bracuk If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. i tried one pic with the built in flash and diffuser and it was bad so the flash is turned off. elliott >Elliott Goldstein <e.goldstein@asu.edu> pounded away at his keyboard >resulting in: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- > |
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