Anacapa - August 2014
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imgur.comPosted Aug 6, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC
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imgur.comI love diving with the Spectre. Those brittle stars were from the far side of the island, right? I think the site is called underwater island. Did you get a chance to see the sea lions at cathedral?
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Yup, it was the south side of the island. I had forgotten the site name so cheers for that. Dove catherdral twice on this trip but no sea lions there this time. We saw a couple on another dive on the south side. Love em. The year before we were absolutely swarmed at sea lion spot.
Spectre is a great boat. Good crew, awesome food and the hot tub doesn't hurt.
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Honestly, between the food and the hot tub, it's almost worth going with them and not diving. Last time I dove with them was in April and we only did one day at Anacapa due to weather. The second day they took us out to Santa Cruz island. We didn't see any sea lions either day, I was kind of bummed.
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Love your photos
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I think we were on the Peace together :)
I was on the Spectre. Could have been out there at the same time though:)
Yea, probably. Can I ask how you got so much light out of that 3 nudi pic? When I took this pic everything else became so dark.
Ha, it's funny you ask. I have been trying to figure out a way to isolate the subject with a black background...
It wasn't anything I did intentionally, per se. I am still learning my camera and techniques. But, it might be how your camera is set up to work with your flash. I am using a 'through the lens' strobe. So, the camera determines exposure based on the whole frame and then only sends the right amount of light to the strobe. So, the exposure is set, to some extent, before the flash for the background as well. If you are using a different type of flash/strobe set up, the camera might be getting the exposure for a very bright flash - making the background dark.
That said, all that above is pretty much speculation!
beautiful work btw. some amazing shots!
Thank you!