underwater slideshow Skye

[manis]

Hello,

I've just posted a slide show on http://www.beechbrook.com/pte/ it is called Skye diving - this is a show about coldwaterdiving which to my opinion can be as colourful as tropical water. The pictures are taken around the Hebrides last August.

I am not very experienced in making slideshows though, but with the help of this forum I was able to realize it - most people that know my pictures are divers or underwaterphotographers and they look with a different eye - so feedback and comments from non-divers are very welcome.

Reine

[neil]

Well Reine loads of folks have had a look but no one wants to say anything!

I thought it was great,it was a very different set of images to the norm.

As you say we ( or at least most of us are not divers) and it made a superb slideshow

The colours and all that stuff down there! .........It was great.

The one thing that I think would improve the show would be to slow down the

speed of the zoom a touch.

Anyway thanks for a very enjoyable,unusual,interesting show.

All the Best

Neil

[JudyKay]

One of my favorite things about this forum is that you get to peek into other people's lives, imaginations, experiences and things they think are beautiful. What a Christmas gift!. If there was more time, we could travel everywhere on the world and under it and above it. More important is to fully appreciate right where we are. Because we can't go everyone--at least not all at once, we can live vicariously through others sharing.

What beautiful creatures are down there! Makes me feel like Dory in Finding Nemo. I would love to dive and see those things--but are you ever afraid they might be poisonous? Or bite you? Or your air hose? Still it would be worth it. I was on an island in South Asia once where we could see all kinds of marvelous bright creatures in the clear water, but I didn't dare put my 30D camera under the water.

jk

[manis]

thanks for your comments -

Neil,

you are right about the zooms - I slowed down the zooms meanwhile - looks better!

Judy,

I've been diving quite some time and first rule is: watch, don't touch:) - so on my 1200 dives, though seen a lot of dangerous en poisonous animals I've never been in a dangourous or threatening situation, as I try to keep respect for the habitat.

We take our slr's down in special housings. As a lot of my diving is done in quite rough conditions we have very sturdy housings! Next to that we use very heavy strobes. Underwaterphotography is a complete different technique - but the eye of the photographer stays the same.

gr,

Reine

[dabbler]

terrific! i hope you add more in the near future.