Perches

[solisti]

Awfully quiet here lately, so perhaps some perches to wake you guys up:


http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv28060904.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv28060905.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv28060906.jpg

[Jonathan Bird]

That water looks shallow enough that you could have shot them with a snorkel. What's the water temp?

Sure is quiet around here. Pierre is in France working. I haven't been diving in a month (I'm editing). But I'm going to Holbox in 10 days, then Galapagos in August, Florida in Sept, Curacao in Oct for the coral spawn and Raja Ampat in November, so I'll have something new to post in the coming months.

We need some new travel threads. Who is diving next month?

Jonathan

[solisti]

That water looks shallow enough that you could have shot them with a snorkel. What's the water temp?

Jonathan


You cought me, these are shot with a snorkel :D

I think the water is now this close to surface something like 18 degs centigrade

[sorvju-f]

That water looks shallow enough that you could have shot them with a snorkel. What's the water temp?

Sure is quiet around here. Pierre is in France working. I haven't been diving in a month (I'm editing). But I'm going to Holbox in 10 days, then Galapagos in August, Florida in Sept, Curacao in Oct for the coral spawn and Raja Ampat in November, so I'll have something new to post in the coming months.

We need some new travel threads. Who is diving next month?

Jonathan

No new UW-pics here either...July 2 weeks wreck-diving trip here in Finland and August in Galapagos. Hope to have some pics to post during/after.

Jukka

[Andrew]

Hi guys, was just thinking the same about being quite. Housing just back from Ikelite today after having a TTL upgrade for my 50d so will test it out on a few dives here over the forthcoming few weeks. Then nothing until my Galapagos trip in August (when are you guys going?) and then Mozambique in October...

Solisti, those perch seem kinda friendly. Are they the same ones that you can eat with chips?

Andrew

[Jonathan Bird]

Andrew, we are in the Galapagos Aug 6-17. How about you?

[Kelly]

Love those little perch. We get those here in the same place as the crayfish.

Didn't realize you guys were so bored :p , we're usually out every weekend, though we don't post all our pictures on this site. Here's some wreck diving from May 2009 in Tobermory.

http://dis-divers.smugmug.com/gallery/8344631_yQrQU#547054656_372B5

There are 7 galleries of our diving in 2009 so far, feel free to poke around... :eek: :D

[Andrew]

Nice shots Kelly, you certainly have got in a variety of diving so far this year!! :eek:

Jonathan, I arrive on the 18th through to the 31st so will probably miss you guys somewhere in the air en-route. It also means that I might get to see a trip report to wet my appetite before I board the boat...

Andrew

[Jonathan Bird]

Andrew, Bummer! We will just miss you!!!

[Andrew]

Yes, I should plan better next time or join you on one of your adventures

Andrew

[solisti]

Well if no-one else than Kelly and me is doing any diving then I'll post some ruffe:

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/normal_vv04070903.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv04070905.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv04070904.jpg

Visibility is pretty awfull at the moment... :(

[Sharp]

Awfully quiet here lately, so perhaps some perches to wake you guys up:




Very sharp pictures and good eye contact solisti.

I have also done only one dive in july and on that dive I didin´t had even my camera with my. Hope to get something on this month.

Here is old pearch pictures wich was taken 2003 with my old (and first digital camera) Canon Power shot A40

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/saimaa_lake/slides/perch4.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/saimaa_lake/slides/perch_near.jpg

I was liveaboard trip on Red Sea on may and I got many good pictures on that trip. I have worked them already and I will get posted those as soon I get those to my website.

[Kelly]

Sorry solisti, I did dive this weekend, but didn't take the camera with me. No fishies where I was anyway, just wrecks :p

I'll be out of picture-taking mode until the end of July:( but should be back in full force in August. Keep 'em coming.... always nice to see pics posted!

[solisti]

two last days of summer holiday....

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv09070901.jpg

[solisti]

I'm runing out of subject to post. How about just bubbles and sun :D

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv03070902.jpg

[solisti]

All my ususal subject in one dive and post:

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv19070904.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv19070901.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv19070910.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv19070906.jpg

[solisti]

btw, if there is going to be another contest I suggest its about perch! :D

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv19070903.jpg

[Andrew]

As perch photos go Solisti you have cornered the market! :D

[Sharp]

All my ususal subject in one dive and post:

Very good freswater coctail for one dive solisti.:)

[sorvju-f]

two last days of summer holiday....

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv09070901.jpg

Hi Solisti...I really like this one...maybe next time with the hook and fish:eek:

Jukka

[Jonathan Bird]

We need to get Solisti into some clear, warm, tropical water. If he can make these little fish in a pond look good, imagine what he could do on a coral reef??

[Sharp]

I shoot these perches with my INON UCL-165M67 (http://reefphoto.com/images/inon/inon_ucl_165m67.jpg)macro lens.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_macro_front_9_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_macro_front_16_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_is_posing_9_1.jpg

My buddy Seppo is shooting perches.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_is_posing_13_1.jpg

[Sharp]

Another one perche in colors and black and white version.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_macro_front_14_bw_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_macro_front_14_bw.jpg

And another one.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_macro_front_15_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_macro_front_15_bw.jpg

[scubagirl]

Very nice photos, Sharp!

[Sharp]

Very nice photos, Sharp!

Thank you sscubagirl. Those perches are quite diffigult to get close enough with macro lens, but I have shooted these pictures on the top of the old wreck where is caming big schools of perches in the late summer. Unfotunately that day when I went there, there was only few perches. I have to go there after few week, so perhaps there will be big schools then.

There is few more.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_is_posing_8_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_is_posing_6_2.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/perch_is_posing_4_1.jpg

[solisti]

excellent shots sharp!

[Daniel]

I think your last photo of the Perch is great! Limited back-scatter and particles in the photo, plus you captured the fish and and its shadow - a well lit subject.

[solisti]

Did some shooting couple of days ago, but had serious issues with AF due to awfull visibility. These two could be salvaged anyway and I did some heavy cleaning with GIMP (especially with the pike). I think I managed to transform a decent ruffe pic into quite good and the crappy pike into half-decent. What do you think?

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv07090901.jpg

http://www.vastavalo.fi/albums/userpics/14316/vv07090902.jpg

[Sharp]

Did some shooting couple of days ago, but had serious issues with AF due to awfull visibility. These two could be salvaged anyway and I did some heavy cleaning with GIMP (especially with the pike). I think I managed to transform a decent ruffe pic into quite good and the crappy pike into half-decent. What do you think?



Both pisctures are good. Ruffe picture look natural. On the pike picture it look like there would be like white smoke on the background. That smoke give mysterious feeling, when the pike is on the glear water.

[solisti]

To give you an idea of what happened in post processing I post you the originals (developed from RAW ofcourse):

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/07090902small.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/07090901small.jpg

[Sharp]

Here is two of my best pictures for this summer of school of perches. Those pictures show the beautiful Finnish nature of underwater world. In my favorite lake there is not often perches and only few times in the year schools. Those are more affraid that pike.

On that day I was lucky. Sun was shining and schools of perches.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/school_of_perches_20_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perches/slides/school_of_perches_28_1.jpg

[Sharp]

These perches was taken July 2010.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/school_of_perch_7.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/school_of_perch_4.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/school_of_perch_and_seppo_8.jpg

Here perches are trying to hide under wreck.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/school_of_perch_and_seppo_13.jpg

[sorvju-f]

I like the straight forward faces.

Jukka

[Sharp]

I like the straight forward faces.

Jukka

I personally like it too. It feels like those are trying to talk to you.

Here is another straight forward.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/seppo_and_perch_posing_4.jpg

[Andrew]

Sharp,

I actually like the last one with the 2 perch hiding and the photographer in the background... this is a typical situation and tells a story... diver with camera trying to take picture... fish hide in a place you can't photograph them!!

I also agree with Jukka like the face on one too and holds my attention to look closer.

Andrew

[sorvju-f]

I personally like it too. It feels like those are trying to talk to you.

Here is another straight forward.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/seppo_and_perch_posing_4.jpg

Pasi...in this picture is really something...but I can not say really what it is:eek:

Maybe it is composition....the perch is dominating one and in rather surprising place in picture. Actually the first thing you look in picture is diver and that is not dominating one. There are also several levels in picture like sun rays.

Just interesting...

Jukka

[Sharp]

Pasi...in this picture is really something...but I can not say really what it is:eek:

Maybe it is composition....the perch is dominating one and in rather surprising place in picture. Actually the first thing you look in picture is diver and that is not dominating one. There are also several levels in picture like sun rays.

Just interesting...

Jukka

Yes, the perch was almost touching my dome. That part of the lake and wreck of pirch is that kind of that there is only sandy bottom which is dropping quickly. It give also other feeling that like this one which I like a lott becauce of very good viz.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/perch_and_pike_paradice/slides/seppo_and_perch_posing_25.jpg

I just can wait for next summer to shoot with my new rig still pictures and HD video!

[Sharp]

Sharp,

I actually like the last one with the 2 perch hiding and the photographer in the background... this is a typical situation and tells a story... diver with camera trying to take picture... fish hide in a place you can't photograph them!!

I also agree with Jukka like the face on one too and holds my attention to look closer.

Andrew

Thats true Andrew. Sometimes fishes are very difficult positions and if you go too near the bottom, you start to do silt out.

[sorvju-f]

Thats true Andrew. Sometimes fishes are very difficult positions and if you go too near the bottom, you start to do silt out.

Pasi, you haven't shown us anything yet with your new rig?

Jukka

[Sharp]

Pasi, you haven't shown us anything yet with your new rig?

Jukka

Yes I haven't yet. I just solved my homepage problem only three days ago. I have done all my Eilat pictures with Lightroom. Now I just have to select the best ones and work those with Jalbum. After that I can put them to my home page and deliver to UPC page. I promice, I will get everything ready in January.

I have waited long time to get these Valkiajärvi pictures to my homepage that I am so thrilled to see them.

Eilat pictures are good, but not superb. It was first time when I get my rig to under water. I definitely need to practice with it under water.

[Andrew]

What is the new rig Pasi?? Can't wait to see these Eilat pictures... :D

[Sharp]

What is the new rig Pasi?? Can't wait to see these Eilat pictures... :D

Canon 550D, Tokina 10-17, Canon 60mm, Aquatica AT2i housing and dual INON D-2000 strobes.

I took mainly macro shots in Eilat but also some vide angle too.

[Andrew]

So can we have a review of your setup when we get the photos? I would be interested in hearing how the Aquatica housings are?

Cheers
Andrew

[Sharp]

So can we have a review of your setup when we get the photos? I would be interested in hearing how the Aquatica housings are?

Cheers
Andrew

Absolutely!

[PanHavranek]

One from Poland :)
It was bad hot day - every fish all the time look down :(

[Andrew]

Lovely clear picture! So is the diving in Poland any good? Welcome to the forum!

We might have to have a Finland vs Poland Perch-off! :D

Andrew

[PanHavranek]

Andrew - visibility was ~ 3 m. :D

[Jonathan Bird]

We might have to have a Finland vs Poland Perch-off! :D


That could be our next photo contest!!

[Sharp]

Pan, you lake looks great: clear water, grass bottom, no mud and perch! I like it a lot:)

[PanHavranek]

The same I see in yours lakes in Finland :D
But you better know is not quite true :(

[PanHavranek]

Few new from Poland.

[solisti]

I like this one a lot. Beutiful colour, looks a bit like a painting (in a good way)

[sorvju-f]

I like this one a lot. Beutiful colour, looks a bit like a painting (in a good way)

I second this one.

Jukka

[Sharp]

Yes, I like also that big school of perch.

[PanHavranek]

Thanks guys I hope next will be much better.
It was my first dive with dslr. ;-)

[PanHavranek]

some more
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17161360/UWChat/IMG_4702m.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17161360/UWChat/IMG_4714m.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17161360/UWChat/IMG_4715m.jpg

[Andrew]

Nice pictures! Very clear but the water is very green... its no where near a nuclear power station by any chance... :D

[PanHavranek]

Nice pictures! Very clear but the water is very green... its no where near a nuclear power station by any chance... :D
I love green water. ;)
Andrew specially for You .:D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17161360/UWChat/IMG_4699B.JPG

[sorvju-f]

I love green water. ;)
Andrew specially for You .:D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17161360/UWChat/IMG_4699B.JPG

I do not know if this is after photoshop or natural...but I really like real green backgrounds!

Jukka

[Sharp]

Finally I am posting pictures of this summer and autumn. I have shoot a lot and now I have made collection of best pictures for next six month.

Here is my favorite lake Valkiajärvi where I found one unique wreck. It is laying in the middle of water where is lot of alga. It gives a good shelter for perch and pike. Here you can see how schooling perch are looking my.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perch%20and%20Pike/slides/perch_8.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perch%20and%20Pike/slides/perch_3_1.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perch%20and%20Pike/slides/perch_1_1.jpg

This is one is one of my three picture set, which I got third place in Wold ShootOut competition third place.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perch%20and%20Pike/slides/perch_5_1.jpg

[Sharp]

Finally one perch is coming very close to my and he is lifting his back fin up for good posing. These perch are very big, about 30 cm/1 feet.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perch%20and%20Pike/slides/perch_3.jpg

In this picture my buddy Seppo is diving on the background.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Perch%20and%20Pike/slides/perch_6.jpg

[Andrew]

Nice sharp photos Pasi! My personal favourite is the first one on the last post (without your buddy!).

Andrew

[sorvju-f]

Finally I am posting pictures of this summer and autumn. I have shoot a lot and now I have made collection of best pictures for next six month.

Here is my favorite lake Valkiajärvi where I found one unique wreck. It is laying in the middle of water where is lot of alga. It gives a good shelter for perch and pike. Here you can see how schooling perch are looking my.



Pasi, when looking this thread from the beginning I can see big jump in white balance after your new set up....colors are now more natural. I like the two perches composition picture most.

Jukka

[Sharp]

Thank you Andrew and Jukka.

[Jonathan Bird]

Great shots, very clear and sharp! Good mixture of ambient light and fill!