Philippines, Southern Visayas route with the Philippine Siren

daveco2 wrote:

Amazingly rich colors and variety. Have the shots from this trip exceeded all that you have gotten before?

They have, but I'm also diving more than before - this liveaboard was longer than my previous two put together.

I don't know how close you were to the eel with the macro, but it looks a little risky.

SEL90M28G gives you a lot of standoff distance for non-macro subjects. I was at least a couple feet away for that shot, maybe more than three feet. 90mm on 1.5x crop behind a flat port is basically a short telephoto - about 150mm effective focal length.

Some from this morning, diving in Puerto Galera, two dives, both less than 10min away from the dive shop:

Yellow-spotted moray? Not sure, color doesn't look quite right.

Some kind of nudibranch, can't find the species quickly.

Close-up on the same nudibranch; note that this was without a close-up lens mounted - it was a pretty big slug.

Bouchet's chromodoris

Some kind of flatworm?

Nemo

Porcelain crab with food

Bungled attempt at shooting a tiny shrimp with a close-up lens

Mantis shrimp. Accidentally shot it at f/22 and ISO 100 after mucking around with the diopter a minute earlier and it came out almost black, but surprisingly, +3 EV in Capture One nearly recovered the shot.

Some kind of nudi. Need to edit out the few spots of plankton.

A rare success at getting a totally black background.

Christmas tree worm