Seahorse and Coral

[TimIng]

Here's a couple from Indonesia that I took last year:



A pygmy seahorse




Table Coral

Hope you like 'em

Tim

[Breezy]

that seahorse looks wicked
Nice shots

[redneckbill]

Beautiful shots, thanks for sharing.
How deep were you and what type of equipment were you using?
I am in Belize and hope get to dive the reef this winter and want to take a few shots but not sure what to look for as far as equipment goes.

[TimIng]

Well I'm glad you like the pics.

Both photos were taken at about 10m (30feet) IIRC. The equipment was a housed D70 with a 60mm micro for the seahorse and 12-24 for the coral. The housing is a Nexus aluminium housing.

Bill, as for what you should use then it really depends on how serious you want to get. Housing a Canon SLR you will be quickly running into the thousands of $$. If it's to snapshot what you see you maybe better off buy a digicam + housing and sticking a dedicated Underwater Filter in to rebalance the colours (water soaks up colours very quickly - starting with the reds). You can get some great photos with even this simple set-up see http://www.magic-filters.com/gal.html

And yes, you can even buy a complete canon digicam +housing set-up if you wanted.

[snidow]

Very nice, I really like the sea horse.

[Z_Ghost]

The sea horse is beautiful.

[Torrey]

Those pygmy's are pretty neat, aren't they? Nice coral shot too...I like the way the sun is peeking through.

[justin-branam]

eerrggghhh! I didnt see a single pygmy while i was in Raja! Im jealous.

[TXhummer2]

Wonderful!