Kipling
Photographed at approximately 15 meters deep.
D800 in Ikelite housing, ISO100, 1/1000 sec @ f/4, Tamron 90mm macro, 2 Ikelite DS161 strobes
black and white
Usually if it doesn’t belong there, it’s crap.
But sometimes there’s an exception to the rule.
I didn’t check if there was something in it (you’re not supposed to touch anything 😉 ).
But if you recognize it, and you believe it’s yours, write me a line (with distinct details, that are not in the picture, so I know it’s really yours 😀 ), and I’ll try to find it again when I go down next time 😉
D800 (in Ikelight underwater housing), ISO100, 1/1000 sec @ f/4, Tamron 90mm, Ikelight DS161 strobe
… dark.
In many ways.
Sometimes I stop and think how things in the absence of light look so much more… uncomfortable. It wouldn’t even cross your mind during the day when everything’s brightly lit, but when the light disappears, immediately the atmosphere changes.
D800, ISO3200, 1/125 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO200, 1/4 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 50mm (handheld)
… visibility got less…
D800, ISO100, 1/500 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
It’s the “unpredictable” time here in the Philippines. The weather is unpredictable, it may change from sun into storm in under half an hour.
Today the weather’s been restless pretty much the whole time. Sun when we got into the water. Rain and heavy wind when we came up an hour later. The trip back to shore was rough, and we were already thinking that the second dive may not go. But then it changed again and we went out for the second dive, only to come up an hour later in high waves which made getting back on the vessel quite challenging. The rest of the day the wind has picked up, and the sea’s been rough. High waves, ominous clouds over the horizon, we might be in for a treat during the night.
The clouds in the sky made for a very dramatic picture and the waves rolling in on the beach added to that. I decided to go out with the camera to shoot some pictures.
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm
And then it did get rougher. Not completely out of the blue, but still quite sudden.
D800, ISO800, 1/500 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 14-24mm
And then I had to run back to dry the camera. It’s supposed to be … water repellent… Although salt water isn’t the best thing to be bathed in as a camera. I dried and cleaned it as good as I could. For now it’s still working. Hopefully it continues to.
I have a godson. And he has a little brother.
I may have mentioned them before…
Due to mutually busy schedules we haven’t seen each other for quite some time, but today the whole family came over for a visit.
And lovely it was, as always. And yeah… Kids do grow fast. Crazy fast.
And my godson is still the cutest, with his baby brother putting up a stiff competition <3 🙂
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/2, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/2, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/2, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/2, Nikkor 50mm
This was absolutely breath-taking. Even if it’s very simple to explain what you see, sometimes it’s hard to actually believe what you see.
And it’s remarkable how the weather influences your perception. We drove by this inlet several times and only once was it like this. When there was even the slightest breeze, and the water would start moving, the dream scenario disappeared instantly.
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm. 6 images stitched in Photoshop.
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm
….. when you expect one thing, you get something completely different.
That’s what happened when we went out for a sunrise shoot a week or so ago.
The weather was a bit… weird. I knew that if it would be completely overcast, the way it looked the day before, I wouldn’t go, because it wouldn’t be worth it, really. But the forecast said it would be partly overcast, which would be good. So we went out, and…
Yeah, it was completely overcast. I knew already then that what I’d be shooting would be monotone only. But it was good that we went, because even on totally overcast days you can find nice things to photograph.
D800, ISO100, 1 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO100, 1 sec @ f/16, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO100, 1/2 sec @ f/16, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO100, 1/2 sec @ f/16, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO100, 1/2 sec @ f/16, Nikkor 14-24mm
(it’s funny how the color shifts when it’s rendered on the web. These images were all changed with the same setting in Lightroom, and look the same in full format. Here the hues are all over the map…)
Of course during the day the weather cleared up, and the clouds disappeared, bringing on yet another crisp and cold night.
I borrowed the Nikkor 300mm from a Buddy of mine (thanks Don!) and was presented with a good target in the early evening. Shot off the balcony of the apartment:
D800, ISO800, 1/1000 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 300mm + TC2 + TC1.4
Tried to put 2 TC2s on top of each other, but that didn’t work. It’d require me to file off a piece of one of the TCs and that was a bit too much of the good 😀
I like the image as it is, though. It’s a lot crisper than previous moon pictures I once took with my old Sigma 170-500mm.
A snow storm always makes for nice pictures. Especially when you get to take the images from the relatively safe environment of your balcony and you get to see people struggling to get by from a distance… 😉
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
I can write loooong pieces of text about the landscapes.
They’re gorgeous. And they’re many. And they look different every day, especially when you have a sunny day one day and snow the next, and sun again the day after that.
Have a look:
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO400, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm, Nikkor TC2
D800, ISO100, 1/30 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/30 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO400, 1/4 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 8 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 50mm, Singh-Ray VariND
D800, ISO100, 1/1000 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 50mm