The First Official ARFCOM SCUBA Pic Thread (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 6/11/2014 3:48:44 PM EDT
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Isla Roatan (My first time using underwater camera)
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How about changing the title to "The First Official SCUBA Pic Threat"?
Transplants from the "suggestion" thread. Dives Following my OW cert Dive 1 
Dive 2 
Dive 3 was at night... no pics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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Originally Posted By Nostromo: one of my checkout dives in Blue Spring, FL back in 2009 http://i.imgur.com/v3URA5K.jpg  Looking up form the sign.  Also a couple more...            |
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Originally Posted By Dan_Gray:
I posted this in the old thread. Blakely Mountain Dam, Lake Ouachita, HotSprings, AR. GoPro hero3+ black, no lights or filters.  http://youtu.be/u74epO_9Psw
Any advice on filtersor lights would be much appreciated. Backscatter makes a magenta filter for green water. Buy the FLIP 3.1 system with the "dive" filter, plus buy the green water filter extra and you can switch them out. That way you have a filter for green water (i.e. lakes and quarries) and then a filter for blue water (i.e.salt/tropical, etc) ETA: Pic thread...all taken in Bonaire, March 2014 
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Those are some awesome pics. I can feel my blood pressure drop just scrolling down the page...
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Originally Posted By JohnnyC:
Nice Spotted Drum 40xb. Nice pics guys. But fuck those big remoras, they creep the shit out of me. And if that asshole is getting that big, how big is whatever he was suckered on to?! Thank you. I almost missed him at first. |
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Did two boat dives today. One on a wreck (Palawan) and one off the shoreline... max depth 17ft where I was. Basically just burning off what was left of our tanks from the wreck dive.
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Is there anything you don't do? Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Here are a few of mine: My dive buddy (my wife): Is there anything you don't do? According to my colleagues, work. 
Very nice pictures. Thanks! I've always been into photography, so once manufacturers like Sony and Olympus started making cheap UW housings for inexpensive cameras, I was all over that. 
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Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Thanks! I've always been into photography, so once manufacturers like Sony and Olympus started making cheap UW housings for inexpensive cameras, I was all over that. Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Very nice pictures. Thanks! I've always been into photography, so once manufacturers like Sony and Olympus started making cheap UW housings for inexpensive cameras, I was all over that. Cheap is the operative word in my buying vocabulary.... which is ironic because I'll spend a buttload of money on a bunch of things but won't spend that amount on just one thing. Yet anyway. I'm giving serious thought to plunking down the bucks for a Shearwater Research Petrel. At some point in the next year I'll probably also buy a better reg set than what I'm currently using. I'm not quite ready to drop a couple grand on camera equipment though. |
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Cheap is the operative word in my buying vocabulary.... which is ironic because I'll spend a buttload of money on a bunch of things but won't spend that amount on just one thing. Yet anyway. I'm giving serious thought to plunking down the bucks for a Shearwater Research Petrel. At some point in the next year I'll probably also buy a better reg set than what I'm currently using. I'm not quite ready to drop a couple grand on camera equipment though. Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Very nice pictures. Thanks! I've always been into photography, so once manufacturers like Sony and Olympus started making cheap UW housings for inexpensive cameras, I was all over that. Cheap is the operative word in my buying vocabulary.... which is ironic because I'll spend a buttload of money on a bunch of things but won't spend that amount on just one thing. Yet anyway. I'm giving serious thought to plunking down the bucks for a Shearwater Research Petrel. At some point in the next year I'll probably also buy a better reg set than what I'm currently using. I'm not quite ready to drop a couple grand on camera equipment though. All of the pics I have posted have been shot with a camera rig that cost about $500-$600 total. UW photography has become VERY affordable these days. |
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Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
All of the pics I have posted have been shot with a camera rig that cost about $500-$600 total. UW photography has become VERY affordable these days. Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Very nice pictures. Thanks! I've always been into photography, so once manufacturers like Sony and Olympus started making cheap UW housings for inexpensive cameras, I was all over that. Cheap is the operative word in my buying vocabulary.... which is ironic because I'll spend a buttload of money on a bunch of things but won't spend that amount on just one thing. Yet anyway. I'm giving serious thought to plunking down the bucks for a Shearwater Research Petrel. At some point in the next year I'll probably also buy a better reg set than what I'm currently using. I'm not quite ready to drop a couple grand on camera equipment though. All of the pics I have posted have been shot with a camera rig that cost about $500-$600 total. UW photography has become VERY affordable these days. Agreed. I have less than $1000 into my setup. |
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A few more galleries of photos:
Bay Area Underwater Explorers Rapture of the Deep Warren Lo Photography |
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I tagged this post a while back intending to add some pictures and promptly forgot about it.
I'm reaching the tail end of another dive trip so it reminded me. Here's some pics: 
Mantis shrimp: 
Camera change, photo host change, and quality++: 
DSCN0976 by Zack3g, on Flickr 
DSCN1000 by Zack3g, on Flickr 
DSCN1009 by Zack3g, on Flickr 
DSCN1034 by Zack3g, on Flickr 
DSCN1045 by Zack3g, on Flickr 
DSCN1048 by Zack3g, on Flickr |
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Is that about 1ft of visibility? Bleh... doesn't look even remotely fun.  Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By BiggiBen:
7/1/14 Me... Is that about 1ft of visibility? Bleh... doesn't look even remotely fun. No way dude! That was about 5 feet! That is the absolute best vis I dive in town! We were going on and on about how great vis was today,! I usually don't bring my camera..this was tropical!!! |
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Originally Posted By BiggiBen:
No way dude! That was about 5 feet! That is the absolute best vis I dive in town! We were going on and on about how great vis was today,! I usually don't bring my camera..this was tropical!!! I went on a scooter run today and vis was maybe 15-20 feet... HORRIBLE. I can't imagine 5 feet. What's the point? |
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
I went on a scooter run today and vis was maybe 15-20 feet... HORRIBLE. I can't imagine 5 feet. What's the point? Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By BiggiBen:
No way dude! That was about 5 feet! That is the absolute best vis I dive in town! We were going on and on about how great vis was today,! I usually don't bring my camera..this was tropical!!! I went on a scooter run today and vis was maybe 15-20 feet... HORRIBLE. I can't imagine 5 feet. What's the point? If only people would just throw guns and knives in nice water! Drowning should be outlawed in dark water!! :) |
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
I went on a scooter run today and vis was maybe 15-20 feet... HORRIBLE. I can't imagine 5 feet. What's the point? Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By BiggiBen:
No way dude! That was about 5 feet! That is the absolute best vis I dive in town! We were going on and on about how great vis was today,! I usually don't bring my camera..this was tropical!!! I went on a scooter run today and vis was maybe 15-20 feet... HORRIBLE. I can't imagine 5 feet. What's the point? "Black water diving" in eastern NC in the rivers -- FOSSILS. When the area that is currently land used to be under the ocean millions of years ago, fossils were laid down and now the rivers cut through fossil beds. The catch is that there's lot of entanglement hazards and it is truly "black water" diving. Maybe 1-2ft of vis. I have a few friends who do the occasional 3-6 hour river dive for meg teeth and other fossils. Frequently, the meg and other shark teeth found in the rivers can be higher quality than found in the ocean, since the river fossils have sat in mud for millions of years whereas the ocean fossil have bounced around on the bottom. |
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Neat... but you're not selling me on it. I like to know what I'm about to bump into or touch ahead of time. I've been spoiled where I am so it's hard to imagine anything different. But to each his own.
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"White people? You don't eat white people. I don't make the rules."
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Neat... but you're not selling me on it. I like to know what I'm about to bump into or touch ahead of time. I've been spoiled where I am so it's hard to imagine anything different. But to each his own. Ironically enough, the water is crystal clear for about 1-2ft. But then, even a high-powered HID light gets swallowed up in the gloom. |
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Dove 6 planes this weekend.
An F4U Corsair, an Avenger and three others. Today we did a Japanese Zero (no pics from that one yet). 
Also did a wreck. The front half of the SS Kembu Maru 
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All pics were taken at Ginnie Springs, near Gainesville, Florida. The main cavern there is open to OW certified divers as well as cavern/cave divers. I had the redneck/ghetto-rigged sidemount thing going on because I was low on air in my main tank and the shop had already closed when we were doing our second dive... this was back before I had four tanks of my own to use and I borrowed a stage tank setup from one of the cave divers I went there with, clipped it to my BC and used that to breathe. I was kinda off balance, but it was still fun. I don't know if I'll ever get into cave diving, but it sure looks cool. 
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