Shooting with a Remote Macro Snoot
Mar 01
Text and images by Michael Zeigler Always one to try something new, I decided to try my hand at using a remote macro snoot. With my home-made snoot from the plumbing aisle of Home Depot, I headed out to Diver’s Cove in Laguna Beach in search for all-things tiny. As luck would have it, I found a onespot fringehead within five minutes of dropping down. This was the first of this species I had...
Todd Winner’s Wednesday Photo – Skeleton Shrimp
Feb 06
Image and text by: Todd Winner One of the things I love about macro and supper macro is being able to show a subject in a way you never could with the naked eye. In fact, many of our super macro subjects can hardly be seen without magnification. We often catch some of these subjects in our normal macro shots only to discover them when viewing the image on a large screen. (Photography bycatch.) It...
Creepy Critters – Sept/Oct Photo Contest Winners!
Nov 09
Here are the winners from last month’s Facebook Photo Contest. We merged Sept and October to bring in lots of great entries, and themed the contest around Halloween with “Creepy Critters” as our theme. We had a ton of great entries, so thanks so much to everyone who participated! Don’t forget to submit your photos for this month’s contest, which ends Nov. 30th. The...
Nauticam Adds Support for the Olympus 60mm Macro Lens
Nov 01
Just in time for the holidays, Nauticam announced today support for the new Micro 4/3 Olympus 60mm macro lens. Now available is a flat port that they specifically designed for the 60mm macro lens called the Macro Port 65. You can even add the O60-F focus gear if you are seeking manual focus control. Nauticam has also released two extension rings for existing macro ports to add support for the...
Capturing the Elusive
Oct 23
Colorful, beautiful, and devilishly quick. Those are just some of the words I’ve heard people use to describe juvenile garibaldi. These tiny versions of their parents, sporting their temporary iridescent blue spots, spend their days darting in and out of the shallow reefs. This past weekend I set out with the intent of capturing these speedy subjects, and portraying their elusive...
Fantastic Shots with the Sony RX100
Oct 11
One of our readers, Kevin Stokell, recently sent in a couple example images taken with the newly released Sony RX100. Kevin lives and works in Curacao, in the South Caribbean, where he works as a PADI Divemaster and has plenty of opportunity to get out and shoot. Here’s the details on his shots: The Banded Coral Shrimp “The shot of the Banded Coral Shrimp (above) was taken at the...
Sea Spiders in San Diego
Oct 08
I love it when I experience a “first” as a diver. This past Saturday I enjoyed my first dives at Point Loma in San Diego, and I spotted my first sea spider (Anoplodactylus species). I only knew they existed after perusing the LA Diving Field Guide countless times in search of ID’s of other critters for which I needed a name. The sea spider was the very first subject I locked...
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