Your best nudi pic [Archive] - Underwater Photo Chat

sorvju-f

12-31-2008, 02:34 AM

I was suprised that we didn't have own gallery for nudis...so I started one.

You are wellcome to join the thread with your pictures.

Here is the couble of mine.

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Thailand%20Krabi%2013-28.12.2008/Nudi%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Micronesia-Yap%202008%20Lokakuu%20/Nudi%20face%20800.jpg/full

Jukka

Ken Hawk

12-31-2008, 08:34 AM

A few from the cold waters of Ireland

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/buchhawk/nudifrombackresize.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/buchhawk/RS-Nudi-front-.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/buchhawk/RS-Nudi.jpg

sorvju-f

12-31-2008, 01:45 PM

A few from the cold waters of Ireland

Ken, really beutiful ones...I have never seen.

Jukka

Papa Bear

12-31-2008, 03:44 PM

The Grape cluster nudi is very cool and they are in Fiji as well! Here is one from Wananavu Fiji at a place called Disney Land. http://twotankedproductions.com/images/479__MG_8315_Nudi_at_Wananavu_The_Maze_12-08.jpg

Papa Bear

12-31-2008, 03:46 PM

This one is common in Fiji:
http://twotankedproductions.com/images/480__MG_8079_Segmented_Worm_Bligh_Water_12-08.jpg

Papa Bear

12-31-2008, 03:48 PM

One more from Bligh Water in Fiji:
http://twotankedproductions.com/images/480__MG_8265_Brown_Nudi_Wananavu_2008.jpg

Jonathan Bird

12-31-2008, 04:32 PM

You said "best" which means posting only one....but since everyone else posting more than one, here are a couple favs:

Funky Chromodoris
http://www.jonathanbird.net/jpegs/nudibranch.jpg

Mating nudis in Maine:
http://www.jonathanbird.net/jpegs3/mating_nudibranchs.jpg

A pair from Lembeh:
http://www.jonathanbird.net/jpegs15/jbird_uwp8959.jpg

http://www.jonathanbird.net/jpegs15/jbird_uwp7031.jpg

I like this one with a hitch-hiker too:

http://www.jonathanbird.net/jpegs15/jbird_uwp8433.jpg

OK, I'm going to stop now!!! :D

Jonathan

sorvju-f

12-31-2008, 04:36 PM

You said "best" which means posting only one....but since everyone else posting more than one, here are a couple favs:

OK, I'm going to stop now!!! :D

Jonathan

Pro is pro;) , they have many bests!

The one thing which is true with UW-pics is that two objects in same picture gives more impressive result.

Jukka

Papa Bear

12-31-2008, 10:33 PM

Okay then her is two in one;)
http://twotankedproductions.com/images/480__MG_7953_Yellow_Nudies_Bligh_Water_12-08.jpg

sorvju-f

01-01-2009, 01:34 AM

Okay then her is two in one;)
http://twotankedproductions.com/images/480__MG_7953_Yellow_Nudies_Bligh_Water_12-08.jpg

Papa Bear, I like most that grape cluster...and of coarse "the two".

Two middle ones is difficult to see object from the background.

Jukka

Sharp

01-01-2009, 09:49 AM

A few from the cold waters of Ireland

Excellent pictures friends. I specially like those from cold waters.

Ken, can you see those nudibrances in Ireland through hole year or only in some time of the year?

Ken Hawk

01-01-2009, 10:02 AM

Excellent pictures friends. I specially like those from cold waters.

Ken, can you see those nudibrances in Ireland through hole year or only in some time of the year?

Yes I think they are about all year, it's just a matter of spotting them.
There are lots of other species, but I don't think I have any pictures of them yet.

Ken

Papa Bear

01-01-2009, 12:08 PM

Papa Bear, I like most that grape cluster...and of coarse "the two".

Two middle ones is difficult to see object from the background.

Jukka

Jukka, I agree and it is something that is a good question! Do I make it a scientific picture and move them to lexan or a plastic background so the animal is clearly visible or do you leave them as you find them? I like getting them naturally as I find them with no staging even if it means they are hard to see! Just my preference, but I don't like non-real or staged as well as the real deal! ;) What makes them hard to see tells me something!

dbh

01-02-2009, 10:13 AM

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/indoweb-nudi05.jpg

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/indoweb-2%20whtnudis.jpg

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/NS06Nudi09.jpg

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/NS06Nudi01.jpg

Dave

sorvju-f

01-02-2009, 10:45 AM

Jukka, I agree and it is something that is a good question! Do I make it a scientific picture and move them to lexan or a plastic background so the animal is clearly visible or do you leave them as you find them? I like getting them naturally as I find them with no staging even if it means they are hard to see! Just my preference, but I don't like non-real or staged as well as the real deal! ;) What makes them hard to see tells me something!

The situations varies...sometimes they are in the positions that it is not possible to get good picture. You are right autentic picture is telling something.

Other thing is that one basic rule of angle of taking picture should be same level or upwards is also influencing how audience is reacting to picture.

Jukka

sorvju-f

01-02-2009, 10:46 AM

Dave

Dave they are just beautiful.

Jukka

ftansari

01-08-2009, 11:21 AM

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/3166429517_5b6943ba23.jpg
here's mine.

andyt

02-14-2009, 01:22 PM

Here are some more.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm197/andyt2989/nudi.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm197/andyt2989/nudi3.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm197/andyt2989/Nudibrachlayingeggs.jpg

sorvju-f

02-14-2009, 06:22 PM

Here are some more.

Andy from where these species are...I have not seen earlier!

Jukka

sorvju-f

02-18-2009, 05:21 AM

Post no 1000 have to be pics!

Here you have some bests of my nudis:

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Micronesia-Yap%202008%20Lokakuu%20/Nudi%2020%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Micronesia-Yap%202008%20Lokakuu%20/Nudi%2053%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Micronesia-Yap%202008%20Lokakuu%20/Nudi%2051%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Micronesia-Yap%202008%20Lokakuu%20/Nudi%2052%20800.jpg/full

Jukka

Andrew

02-18-2009, 05:44 AM

Congratulations Jukka on your 1000th post, must be due to all those dive trips you take! :D Great Nudis, do all your pose for you from left to right?

Andrew

solisti

02-18-2009, 06:36 AM

Interesting observation. Jukka is this intentional?

We do read photos from left to right and movement to right is usually considered as forward. Examples below:

Police moving forward:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/46577.jpg

Protesters moving forward (same photo):
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/465772.jpg

sorvju-f

02-18-2009, 06:41 AM

Congratulations Jukka on your 1000th post, must be due to all those dive trips you take! :D Great Nudis, do all your pose for you from left to right?

Andrew

Some non left to right:

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/2008%20Bunaken/Heltta%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Micronesia-Yap%202008%20Lokakuu%20/Nudi%20WB%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Philippines%20Dumaguete%2014-20.11.2008/Nudi%20A9%20800.jpg/full

http://sorvjuf.1g.fi/kuvat/Philippines%20Dumaguete%2014-20.11.2008/Nudi%20A5%20800.jpg/full

Jukka

sorvju-f

02-18-2009, 06:56 AM

Interesting observation. Jukka is this intentional?

We do read photos from left to right and movement to right is usually considered as forward. Examples below:

Police moving forward:
Protesters moving forward (same photo):

Solisti! With composition you actually can flip canvas horizontally with photoshop...so you can do both and directions. Somewhere I have read that human eye is first checking from picture the right side first ( golden triangle ) and the main point should be there...always breaking the rules can give nice results. To me when adjusting, cropping, leveling the pic is important that it is pleasing my eye. Another truth is that different people are evaluating the pics differently.

I feel moving right it is coming in...starting, forward, like video zooming in. Moving left is leaving, ending, like video zooming out.

Jukka

Jonathan Bird

02-24-2009, 12:33 PM

There are enough pics in this thread for a nudibranch book!!

David White

03-25-2009, 11:36 PM

Here are a few that we observed during our visit to Lembeh in 2007: http://vimeo.com/832674

sorvju-f

03-26-2009, 03:30 AM

Here are a few that we observed during our visit to Lembeh in 2007: http://vimeo.com/832674

Great to hear from you David!

How was your filming in Bonaire...was camera OK?

I love your camerawork...you have one of the most stable hands to shoot I have ever seen...and that is needed for these nice little creatures.

To me Lembeh is the place I visited only couple of days on my way to Raja Ampat and I feel that I didn't get enoug from there yet.

Compared to Antarctica there are objects even too much to take photos/film.
Same number of dives as in Antarctica/3 weeks you are getting there in two days.

Great music, but if I may say...just somebody reading the text below to beginning of the video and rest of the video with music would give better result...just my thoughts.

Jukka

David White

03-26-2009, 09:30 PM

Kelly

03-27-2009, 01:00 AM

. Should keep me out of trouble for a while.

Not likely....:rolleyes:

sorvju-f

03-27-2009, 04:48 AM

Hello Jukka,

Amphibico repaired the right hand grip and I purchased a spare just in case but neither of them worked so I shipped the entire housing back for repair. The technician took it all apart and put it back together and could not find anything wrong. But, when it was returned, on the afternoon of the day before I left for Bonaire, it worked perfectly. So, now I have 10 tapes from Bonaire to edit as well as all the tapes from the Bahamas and Yap. Should keep me out of trouble for a while.

I know exactly what you are speaking about.. I have Indonesia, Bahama, Yap, Filippines, Finland, Thailand, Antarctica undone.

Anyhow I ordered this new MAC table computer with fastest processor ( 8core ), 16 MB RAM, 2 HD graphics cards, 6,6 TB memory RAID + Back up. Two Eizo Color Edge 30" screens, getting it after 3 weeks...soon no excuses for undone work:o .

Jukka

David White

03-27-2009, 01:54 PM

Wow Jukka, with all that computing power you should be finished in no time. Let me know when you are done and I will send you some of my tapes to edit.

sorvju-f

03-27-2009, 03:59 PM

Wow Jukka, with all that computing power you should be finished in no time. Let me know when you are done and I will send you some of my tapes to edit.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Daniel

03-29-2009, 07:10 PM

I know exactly what you are speaking about.. I have Indonesia, Bahama, Yap, Filippines, Finland, Thailand, Antarctica undone.

Anyhow I ordered this new MAC table computer with fastest processor ( 8core ), 16 MB RAM, 2 HD graphics cards, 6,6 TB memory RAID + Back up. Two Eizo Color Edge 30" screens, getting it after 3 weeks...soon no excuses for undone work:o .

Jukka

Geez louise.... did you win the lottery? :eek:

sorvju-f

03-30-2009, 03:29 AM

Geez louise.... did you win the lottery? :eek:

I used my saving for the bad days...and what I have heard from the news the bad days are just now here:D

Jukka

Jonathan Bird

03-30-2009, 05:01 PM

I used my saving for the bad days...and what I have heard from the news the bad days are just now here:D

LOL!! SO true!

Wow Jukka, with all that computing power you should be finished in no time. Let me know when you are done and I will send you some of my tapes to edit.

Unfortunately the computer, no matter how fast, still needs a human to edit the video!

seafan

03-31-2009, 12:44 AM

Love all the nudis... .my favorite subject even though my "tired" eyes don't find them as easily as they used to!!

Also am excited to hear that I will have a chance to scout for more this coming December...

I'm putting a trip to Lembeh together for the last 2 weeks in December 2009! What a way to end the old year and bring in a new one.:D :D

scubagirl

03-31-2009, 11:25 AM

Great photos everyone, and nice video, David! I've never seen a nudibranch before, so it gives me something to look forward to this fall.

sorvju-f

03-31-2009, 03:33 PM

I've never seen a nudibranch before, so it gives me something to look forward to this fall.

Suddenly to hear this from the diver sounds weird...anyhow you have great and beutiful underwater life to get familiar with:D

Jukka

scubagirl

03-31-2009, 04:08 PM

There's always something new to see, underwater, whether it's a new species or creature behaviour. If I ever think there is nothing new to see, I'll have to quit diving.

Although, I think half the reason I haven't seen one yet is because I need magnifiers in my mask ;)

Sharp

04-01-2009, 07:12 AM

I've never seen a nudibranch before, so it gives me something to look forward to this fall.

Same with my. I haven´t also ever seen nudibranches. Hope to see them next may in Red Sea?

sorvju-f

04-01-2009, 12:00 PM

Same with my. I haven´t also ever seen nudibranches. Hope to see them next may in Red Sea?

I am sure you will love them!

Jukka

Sharp

07-06-2009, 04:57 PM

I am sure you will love them!

Jukka

Here is my first ever tooked nudibranc picture. On that dive I had my dome lens, but I had to try to shoot it any way.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Abu%20Galawa%20Kebir/slides/nudibranch_7.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Abu%20Galawa%20Kebir/slides/nudibranch_6.jpg

That nudi was quite easy to found because it was on the sandy bottom.

sorvju-f

07-07-2009, 04:08 PM

Here is my first ever tooked nudibranc picture. On that dive I had my dome lens, but I had to try to shoot it any way.

That nudi was quite easy to found because it was on the sandy bottom.

Great! How did you like those nice creatures?

I think strobe was little out from subject?

Jukka

Jonathan Bird

07-07-2009, 08:33 PM

Sheesh, pretty full frame for a wide angle lens shot of nudi. Was it big??

Sharp

07-08-2009, 04:57 AM

Great! How did you like those nice creatures?I think strobe was little out from subject?Jukka

I love them. Only problem was that otherones (blue, yellow and white striped) was much more difficult to find inside the corals. I was lucky that I had two buddys who was used to find those creatures.

Sharp

07-08-2009, 04:59 AM

Sheesh, pretty full frame for a wide angle lens shot of nudi. Was it big??

That picture is cropped from the original picture. It was length of my forefinger.

fred13

10-12-2009, 06:21 PM

hi everybody just a little from France:

sorvju-f

10-13-2009, 02:47 AM

hi everybody just a little from France:

Fred13, it is beautiful...do you have more from France?

Jukka

Neptune7

10-13-2009, 11:55 AM

hi everybody just a little from France:

Bonjour Fred13,

Are from you from France? It would be nice to have another member of UWPC who is natively French speaking. And who knows, we could one day dive in the Méditérannée or the Calanques de Marseille...

Pierre

Jonathan Bird

10-15-2009, 08:52 AM

Hey, I'm French accent speaking!

Clay Coleman

10-15-2009, 12:01 PM

Great light on that shot, Fred13. They made my grandmother quit speaking French when she was in school (I'm from Louisiana and the state tried hard to quash the Acadian culture in the 1920s and 30s)

fred13

10-20-2009, 02:57 PM

Fred13, it is beautiful...do you have more from France?

Jukkayes,I have more,but most of them are in Annecy lake,the wonderful place where I live,in the mountains. Less colored. I'll post them in a moment.Hope some day I can dive in your country.

fred13

10-20-2009, 03:06 PM

Bonjour Fred13,

Are from you from France? It would be nice to have another member of UWPC who is natively French speaking. And who knows, we could one day dive in the Méditérannée or the Calanques de Marseille...

PierreYes I 'm french,I suppose you can see that my english is not really "top".Beaucoup plus facile pour moi en français! About dives in Marseille,it's always a pleasure for me to go there,cause I live in mountains,near Annecy.But we have a beautiful lake!:)