Wide Angle Underwater

daveco2 wrote:

PHXAZCRAIG wrote:

Macro: a whole other story. LOTS of macro opportunities in Roatan. Browse through my Roatan web pages here to see them: http://www.cjcphoto.net/

Wow, you really do have a large library of great shots. Do you find the macro on your own or does the resort help out with a spotter? And do they give you enough time to get the shot?

I go to the Reef House Resort during their down month (September) where I am usually the only guest at the place.  On the weekends or at odd times there may be a few other divers doing some day dives on the boat, usually only for the two morning dives.  Most of the time I have the boat and divemaster to myself.

One big reason I keep going to Roatan is the divemaster at that resort.  David is phenomenal at finding things, big to very small.  He must have phenomenal eyesight.  He has also got over 20,000 dives in at the dive sites in the area.  (I've now been to at least 37 different sites and followed him on 170 dives.)

There is a lot of stuff to see on a health reef in Roatan, and it helps to have been to the dive site with seahorses over 1000 times to know just where to look.

I'm generally given enough time to get my shots, especially for something special, when I'm the only diver.   David and I dive well together, and we tend to do longish dives - never less than 60 minutes, and that includes 20-30 minutes down around 80 feet on almost every dive.   So there is a bit of time constraint, but not when it really matters.

Here are three shots from the end of a single dive where we had a number of other divers along and David was pointing to stuff on the way back to the boat.

Without David I would have 10% of the shots I've gotten there.

David pointing to a Slender Filefish

We had finned over acres of this stuff when David stopped and signaled us to see this Lettuce Sea Slug.

Nudibrach

The inside shot of your D850 case is impressive. I can see why it costs so much. Is that a UW-Technics TTL converter nestled in the top?

No, it's the non-TTL trigger that comes with the Nauticam case for a D850.  Have to have something there since the D850 has no pop-up flash.   My Nauticam case for my D810 only has an optical prism to direct the pop-up flash.