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Wagnbat introduction

2008-10-04T14:39:12Z

Greetings all,

I’ve been lurking for a few months now, ever since I got my SCUBA cert, which was July of this year. In August I completed my Advanced Open Water cert, and in September I completed Night and National Geographic PADI specialty certs. Currently working on Rescue Diver, which will eventually lead me to Divemaster.

I’m US Navy, stationed on Guam. Been here 18 months and just starting to dive. Delay was due to settling into life back on a ship after 5 years of shore duty in Washington DC, and 2 brand new kids; 18 months and 4 months old. I drive a Mini called the Batmini (google it, I dare ya. ) and a Jeep as the wife’s daily driver for the kids and grocery shopping type stuff.

I picked up a Sony W300 seeing as how Sony has their own marine packs available. I was quickly dissapointed with the photos and the fact that the lens housing blocks the flash… So I worked a deal with a local dive shop and got about 15% off the Sea & Sea YX-27DX strobe package which I just took out for the first time this weekend. I am definitely an amatuer still, but also quite pleased with the photos I’ve taken so far. I need to take my photoshop skill to the next level as well, as the shallows around here often have less than optimal visibility.

Oh, I also need some help on identifying stuff from time to time… I’ve got a video of a critter up in the Fish ID section of the forums if someone knows about worms. Going to share some of my other photos to finish off my intro.

Introduction - Me! (Wyvern)

2008-08-26T23:21:39Z

Hi,

My name is Wyvern i have been hanging around the site quite a bit recently and here i am signing up.

I have been diving for 9 years now but only started taking photos in 2005 when i bought a sealife reefmaster which apart from the very small screen size and low resolution was a fairly good starter camera, also having 2 external strobes was nice.

I now dive with a Canon Ixus 900ti in an ikelite housing to which i plan to add a DS-160 strobe in a few months.

I have now shared up my photobox albums so here they are:

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/57642579 - Maldives 2005 (Sealife camera)

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/57577104 - Sharm 2006 (Sealife camera)

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/57579188 - Hurghada 2007 (Canon)

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/57380453 - sharm 2008 (Canon)

Looking forward to learning a lot off you guys.

Wyvern

Need compact housing and good camcorder, to make special video..

2008-04-22T08:39:09Z

I am looking after at uw-housing and camera, wich takes good video, but also is very compact, so that i might mount it on the side of my head while diving.

Housing should be waterproof to 60 meters or something like that.
Video should be good in low light enviroment
Cheap is good..

I have been looking at a lot of products, but havent found the perfect product yet - anyone can help me with this setup ?

My first decent video

2008-03-22T21:55:32Z

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIJrloxOzE[/youtube]
if you like it , can you rate it or even put a comment on the utube video.

Shot with a Canon Powershot s50
Its only 320x240

What can anyone recommend for my next camera as I want something alot better, but under $1000

Thanks
Dane

Searching for Helmut Theiss

2008-05-21T14:03:51Z

Hiya,

First time on these forums for me. I’m trying to track down a German photographer called Helmut Theiss who won a competition at the turn of the year with a very pretty photograph of a seahorse sitting in front of a sea pen. Very nice work, and I’d like to showcase it in my magazine. So Helmut - if you’re reading - please get in touch by emailing simon at dive dot uk dot com and we’ll get your picture published.

All the best,

Simon Rogerson
DIVe magazine UK

intro: maayan

2008-03-15T21:15:32Z

diving since 1994, mostly tech Mediterranean dives.

on and off UW photography, trying to get back on the video “band-wagon.

It’s been a great year…

2007-10-30T16:30:18Z

for me, considering I have logged 100 dives and only about 40 with a camera, did my 100th dive in the Red Sea in Feb this year( that was the last time I was really in the water :(( ). But being a bit cheeky, I decided to enter one or two competitions, Big ones, the GDT “European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007” and came away with Highly Commended.there were some absolutely beautiful photos at the festival exhibition in L�nen, Germany.
Then came Antibes just for a laugh, of course I didnt win anything, But!, I received an email from a French journalist asking about one of my photos that was being used as part of a promotion packet, and see there, it was in a slide show with photos from Michael Aw, Charles Hood, Franco Banfi, Felipe Barrio, and few more great names, that for me was a great honour. This made me a bit noisy and I found two more photos ( Loinfish and an Anemonen fish) on the official HP from Antibes. Anyway thats about it really I think it was a great year.

GDT

Antibes1

Antibes2

So jetzt muss ich meine Graue Starr entfernen lassen :((

Cheers
Ted

Intro: New UW Photographer from the Maldives

2007-11-11T18:22:49Z

Hi all!

My name is Shaff & I’m a Scuba diving instructor from the Republic of Maldives. I started taking photos a few years back as a hobby. I never thought of entering any competitions as I thought all my photos won’t even make it anywhere. My family, friends and also my students always tells me how good my photos are and that I should enter a competition. Last month I entered the first photo competition organised by the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board and won the competition. I submitted 5 photos to the underwater category and came 1st and 2nd. And then won the ‘Best of the Show’. It was a big surprise to me because I took all the photos using an Olympus 5060WZ. Now I’ve got an Ikelite housing and strobes for my Nikon D50 DSLR. I hope I can learn a lot from the professional or amateur photographers in DigiDeep. Wish me luck.

Number 7 - October 2007 - Best Free Digital Diving Magazine in Spain

2007-10-05T09:06:31Z

You can already dowlnoad the new number of the gratuitous magazine of diving SENSATIONS (in spanish).
The number 7 corresponding to the month of October 2007 already this clever one.
In this occasion 123 paginate of reports, articles, medicine of the diving, photographs submarine and a lot but.

In this occasion the contents that you will be able to enjoy among other are:

Islands Medas - Paradise of the diving

The diving team - The knives

Dorian Andrea’s tragedy

Maldives. A paradise also in August

The respectful diving

Principles of the apnea

Clinic prescribes - The asthma and the diving 2� part

History of the diving - 1� part

and the habitual sections.

Because all this and much more they are the contents that you will be able to enjoy in this new number of SENSATIONS.

DOWNLOAD OF N� 7 OF SENSATIONS
(To pulse in these links to discharge the version “light” or (special smaller quality of graphics for slow connections) the normal one for Adsl / cable)

and here the cover of the next number 8

sealife dc600 VS sea & sea 860G VS. canon 900

2007-09-27T06:10:54Z

I am looking to buy a simple point and shoot until I can buy a decicated housing and strobes for my digital SLR. I am trying to decide bewteen the sea & sea 860G, the sealife dc600, and and one of the canon sd series, either the 800 is or the 900. very limited informnation is avaliale for eithe the sea & sea, or the sealife, can anybody help me out .