Author Topic: Great Barrier Reef pictures (Read 6253 times)

aquavista99 · « **on:** July 31, 2007, 22:29:38 »

Here are a few underwater pictures taken by my wife a few weeks ago from Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Stretching over 1250 miles and covering an area of over 135,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the only living thing visible from the Moon.

micki · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2007, 22:31:45 »

Wow awesome Tim!

mhhauser321 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2007, 23:28:42 »

Man Oh Man I wish I was there. I really hope some day I get to visit it.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2007, 23:30:45 »

A few more ...

scott wilson · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2007, 23:42:45 »

brings back memories. Great pictures. Curious what type of camera were those pictures taken with?

aquavista99 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2007, 00:00:08 »

Quote from: scott wilson on July 31, 2007, 23:42:45

brings back memories. Great pictures. Curious what type of camera were those pictures taken with?

Just a cheap, disposable 35mm underwater camera.

micki · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2007, 06:10:08 »

Quote from: aquavista99 on August 01, 2007, 00:00:08

Just a cheap, disposable 35mm underwater camera.

I love those!

aquavista99 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2007, 18:36:13 »

Quote from: micki on August 01, 2007, 06:10:08

I love those!

I think we are going with a digital underwater camera next. The images will be so much better.

scott wilson · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2007, 18:44:19 »

for some cameras they make water proof cases that you can put around terrestrial cameras so you can use them under water.

verper · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2007, 19:36:57 »

and some of those cases cost as much as good camera

micki · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2007, 22:07:51 »

I've always been happy with the walmart disposable camera. It's not the top of the line but it works!

aquavista99 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2007, 22:51:32 »

Quote from: scott wilson on August 01, 2007, 18:44:19

for some cameras they make water proof cases that you can put around terrestrial cameras so you can use them under water.

We were looking at the "ikelite" compact digital housing for our existing digital camera (IE, fits most Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Olympus and Sony cameras) and it comes with a strobe.

www.ikelite.com

However, a friend from work has a nice underwater Olympus digital camera for the same price, and the digital images she photographed from the Caymen Islands were unreal.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2007, 23:25:59 »

Quote from: micki on August 01, 2007, 22:07:51

I've always been happy with the walmart disposable camera. It's not the top of the line but it works!

On a clear day, I usually dive between 10 to 15 ft deep for photographs of fish and coral.Not sure I would trust a Walmart camera at those depths, but Fuji and Snap Sights have a nice underwater disposable camera for around $20. You really need a clear, sunny day to take decent photographs underwater with disposable cameras, and the depths need to be shallow as well, unless you have a strobe attached to your camera.

I attached a picture of the disposable camera I used in Dry Tortugas....purchased from a Dive shop in Fort Lauderdale.

We are looking forward to moving up to the digital underwater photography world...the images are very intense and crystal clear.

micki · « **Reply #13 on:** August 02, 2007, 05:39:03 »

If I did a lot of underwater photography or deep dives there is no doub't I would invest in a good underwater camera. However, that's not the case so it's not worth it to me. Maybe someday! (in my retirement years...

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Chris · « **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2007, 16:58:35 »

Quote from: aquavista99 on August 01, 2007, 00:00:08

Just a cheap, disposable 35mm underwater camera.

that's really awesome considering we used an actual dive camera for our trip to the south pacific and most of our pics turned out really bad! I don't know how well a cheapie would work at 60-100 ft though.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 16, 2007, 11:00:56 »

Quote from: Chris on August 02, 2007, 16:58:35

that's really awesome considering we used an actual dive camera for our trip to the south pacific and most of our pics turned out really bad! I don't know how well a cheapie would work at 60-100 ft though.

A cheapie camera would not work at all in deeper water. In deeper water, artificial lighting (IE, strobes) is needed to offset the lack of light. The above pictures were taken in shallow water on a clear, sunny day, so lighting was not an issue.

Chris · « **Reply #16 on:** August 16, 2007, 13:13:48 »

I didn't notice any crown of thorns starfish in those pics so that's a good sign! saw a few of them in Vanuatu. I hear it's gotten so bad that some plots of the GBR are not even worth visiting anymore.

REDPYRO · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2007, 13:34:21 »

nasty but impressive creatures

micki · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2007, 17:16:52 »

Did you pull those off the net Matt or is that from someones tank? Are they poisonous?

REDPYRO · « **Reply #19 on:** August 16, 2007, 18:21:27 »

from the web....they eat corals

micki · « **Reply #20 on:** August 16, 2007, 19:31:10 »

Ahhh I see...

Charlie · « **Reply #21 on:** August 17, 2007, 18:15:32 »

Quote from: Chris on August 02, 2007, 16:58:35

that's really awesome considering we used an actual dive camera for our trip to the south pacific and most of our pics turned out really bad! I don't know how well a cheapie would work at 60-100 ft though.

At that depth the pressure will activate the shutter button on a cheap camera.

Reefinmike · « **Reply #22 on:** September 28, 2007, 00:21:46 »

nice pics, that is an awesome branching acro in pic 16.

Frogtoad · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2010, 23:48:04 »

Those crown of thorns are so colorful. Too bad they cause so much damage to the stony corals.

elderpnthrs38 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 24, 2011, 22:27:02 »

Truly amazing

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