Northwest Dive Club

Make sure your computer has enough RAM to run LR without it totally bogging down. 8g is not enough. 16g is sufficient, but more would be even better. LR is a total memory hog! The minimum dram requirements for LR is 4 gigs, I can state that it ran quite well with 4 gigs on my laptop. Sometimes I ru...

Go with 5, unless you're certain you're going to keep using an older camera that is supported by LR4. Lightroom 4 doesn't support the latest cameras (I know this from experience). If you buy a newer camera you're out of luck with 4 because Adobe doesn't release RAW file upgrades for older versions o...

very cool…. a great example of forced perspective at work

Too bad it is not like this all the time. Very nice, Dan. thanks everyone. Truly epic conditions last weekend. Perhaps it''ll last until the November Monsoons arrive? http://www.hershmanphoto.com/Underwater-Photography/Cold-Water-Diving/Scuba-October-2013/i-bfH6RLw/1/M/_DSC8226-Edit-M.jpg Dan

did a couple of neat dives out at Keystone on Sunday. Here's some shots! http://www.hershmanphoto.com/Underwater-Photography/New-Underwater-Photos/i-88wHMTH/0/M/_DSC8085-Edit-M.jpg http://www.hershmanphoto.com/Underwater-Photography/New-Underwater-Photos/i-qp8HBsv/0/M/_DSC8073-Edit-M.jpg http://www....

I saw a bigger one out at Neah Bay several years ago, but this fellow was pretty good sized! Plus, there were about 4 others just like hime nearby. That was amazing. I am very careful around any crab with pinchers, they're strength is quite ample to cause a considerable amount of pain. A kelp crab t...

there really isn't that much difference between the two. Go for whichever one you like with the price/options you can get for it in terms of housings, strobes, etc. The biggest cost of an UW system isn't the camera, its the strobes.

Did a couple of dives off of south Lopez Island this past weekend. Wonderful Puget Sound King Crab! Here's some photos..... http://www.hershmanphoto.com/Underwater-Photography/Marine-Life-of-the-Pacific/Crabs-and-Shrimp/i-QBscrWk/0/M/_DSC7916-Edit-M.jpg http://www.hershmanphoto.com/Underwater-Photog...

Greg Jensen wrote:yep, it's a molt from a barnacle.

thanks!

anyone know what this little guy is? part barnacle, part shrimp?



dan

Nwbrewer wrote:The first and the third are just amazing.

thanks! The viz is just incredible right now, the perfect time for wide angle photos!

scratches on the surface of a lens don't make much difference, especially on UW gear. Try it and see if you can see a real difference before attempting a repair.

So,to make a long story short, last March I got a 15mm Sigma Fisheye along with an 8 inch dome port to photograph whale sharks in Belize. No luck with the Whale Sharks, so I've had this lens/port combo sitting around not being used in our normally turbid waters. I decided to take it out for a spin a...

Thanks for the replies. After much agonizing, er, researching, today I'm leaning towards the Olympus OM-D E-M5. It has most things I am looking for... it's a lot more expensive than the Sony RX100, which is what I was leaning towards yesterday till I realized the manual controls I'd give up. I do w...

the plainfin midshipman is a toadfish that is quite famous for the sound males make when luring a mate. They sound like a foghorn! Here's an audio recording. http://www.sfsu.edu/news/2009/spring/toadfish.mp3 http://www.hershmanphoto.com/Underwater-Photography/Marine-Life-of-the-Pacific/Fishes-of-the...

the plainfin midshipman is a toadfish that is quite famous for the sound males make when luring a mate. They sound like a foghorn!

Here's an audio recording.

http://www.sfsu.edu/news/2009/spring/toadfish.mp3

Dan, sorry your dive trip got canceled. Things were back up and running on Tuesday, so we were able to go out and view more Manacled in the kelp fronds at multiple dive sites along the Straits. Sekiu Jetty is a great dive, and a good place to find Silverspotted Sculpins and Tubenose Poachers, espec...

Dan, Looking through my photos, I found Manacled Sculpin at Cove 2 in August of 2010 on 2 different occasions and in November of 2011. I don't dive Cove 2 that often so don't know if this is usual. I was just there last week and didn't see any although I did look. I have been diving at cove 2 hundr...

Jan K wrote:Nice capture of Manacled. It is always fun to add another "FIRST" to the list.

Thanks Jan

I think I need to spend more time exploring the kelp forests

Dan

I also found a number of my favorite nudibranchs, the Opalescent Nudibranch Hermissenda crassicornis That is a great pic, thanks for sharing, I haven't seen one in the water yet, but hoping to do so. thanks, summer time is typically the best time of the year to find Opalescents, they frequently can...

Due to unforseen circumstances my dive boat trip on Monday at Neah Bay was suddenly canceled, so several of us loaded our gear and headed a few miles back east to the Seiku Jetty. A much nicer dive than I expected, a huge kelp forest hosted a number of creatures I don't usually see in lower Puget So...

Is Photoshop CS6 really 600.00? Any less expensive versions on there? Adobe has changed its pricing scheme with the newest version of Photoshop (now Called Photoshop CC for 'creative cloud') Its a lot more complicated now. It used to be you bought a copy of photoshop that you could use on two compu...

I actually have Lightroom. I bought it after talking to other divers. But after taking a short class in Photoshop i know the limitations of Lightrrom. You can do a lot more with Photoshop to individual elements of photos. There is no masking with Lightroom. After learning this i didnt understand wh...

Ah, got it. I actually have no post-processing software. Am about to get Photoshop... eventually. I've also never shot in RAW, assuming it will slow things down. I suppose I could try. :) Don't use Photoshop, use Adobe Lightroom instead. Its also a lot less expensive ($100 vs $700). I use Lightroom...

I posted a few photos at this site. https://plus.google.com/photos/112064220569230407666/albums/5904173883522892241?authkey=CKOdy8vLs4f3zwE Some I am happy with, some look yellow to me. I am starting to think the yellow light is just because the rig only has a single strobe. Which I will be selling...