What a Tail!


Posted by scubastu on Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:15 pm

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Hi Folks,

Just came back from a 2 week dive trip in the Philippines.  For the first 3 days we went to the central island of Cebu to dive with the amazing pelagic thresher sharks ([font=arial, sans-serif]Alopias pelagicus) of Monad Shoal.  Monad is one of the few places on the planet where you can regularly see these graceful animals at scuba reachable depths. [/font]


We could only use available light so to avoid the monochromatic blue, I converted to BW using Nik Silver EFX.


[font=arial, sans-serif]More to come![/font]


[font=arial, sans-serif]Canon EOS 5dmk3, Aquatica A5dmk3 Pro Housing, EF16-35L ver 1, @ 35mm, ISO 800, F5.6, 1/80th.[/font]


Cheers


Stu
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by Mark Boranyak on Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:50 pm
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Hi Stu,

Great shot. I love the angle of the tail. I bet ti's great in color, too.

Thanks for sharing.

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:00 am
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Oh wow, this is so cool!
 

by Matthew Pugh on Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:18 am
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Hi

Stunning shot


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by scubastu on Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:06 am
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Thanks guys! Was a magical moment when we saw them. =) Mark, colour version is so so, we were in fairly dark conditions as you can see from the exposure data, so it was all shades of blue.

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by dissent on Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:13 pm
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Very nice, with the shot angle and the sweeping tail.
 

by MoniqueA on Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:04 am
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Gives a great sense of motion. Like the B&W rendering
 

by Carol Clarke on Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:00 pm
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I love the perspective here with the body and tail on the swerve Stu! Nice in b/w but from what you say about the blue tones in the colour version, that sounds like it might be a great view too!
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by jerryb on Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:09 am
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Now that's a heterocercal tail! Nice body position of the shark.
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by Tim Grams on Sun Apr 05, 2015 9:41 am
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Wow, that is an amazing tail!
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